2 Kings 21:5

New American Bible - revised edition

And he built altars for the whole host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

Cross References

1 Kings 6:36

He walled off the inner court with three courses of hewn stones and one course of cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:12

The great court had three courses of hewn stones all around and a course of cedar beams. So also were the inner court of the house of the Lord and its porch.

2 Kings 23:12

He also demolished the altars made by the kings of Judah on the roof (the roof terrace of Ahaz), and the altars made by Manasseh in the two courts of the Lord’s house. He pulverized them and threw the dust into the Wadi Kidron.

2 Kings 23:4

Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, his assistant priests, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the Lord all the objects that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole host of heaven. These he burned outside Jerusalem on the slopes of the Kidron; their ashes were carried to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:5

He also put an end to the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the vicinity of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, moon, and signs of the zodiac, and to the whole host of heaven.

2 Kings 23:6

From the house of the Lord he also removed the Asherah to the Wadi Kidron, outside Jerusalem; he burned it and beat it to dust, in the Wadi Kidron, and scattered its dust over the graveyard of the people of the land.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s house and all the altars he had built on the mount of the Lord’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 33:5

and he built altars to the whole host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 4:9

He made the court of the priests and the great courtyard and the gates of the courtyard; the gates he covered with bronze.

Ezekiel 40:28

Then he brought me to the inner courtyard by the south gate, where he measured the south gateway; its measurements were the same as the others.

Ezekiel 40:32

Then he brought me to the inner courtyard on the east and measured the gate there; its dimensions were the same as the others.

Ezekiel 40:37

Its vestibule faced the outer court; palm trees decorated its posts opposite each other, and it had a stairway of eight steps. Side Rooms.

Ezekiel 40:47

He measured the courtyard, a square one hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide, with the altar standing in front of the temple. The Temple Building.

Ezekiel 42:3

Built in rows at three different levels, they stood between the twenty cubits of the inner court and the pavement of the outer court.

Ezekiel 43:5

Then the spirit lifted me up and brought me to the inner court. And there the glory of the Lord filled the temple!

Ezekiel 44:19

And when they go out to the people in the outer court, they shall take off the garments in which they served and leave them in the rooms of the sanctuary, and put on other garments so they do not transmit holiness to the people by their garments.

Ezekiel 8:16

Then he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. There at the door of the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple and their faces toward the east; they were bowing eastward to the sun.