2 Kings 21:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The Asherah idol he had made, he placed in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 7:16

now I have chosen and consecrated this house that my name may be there forever; my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him: I have heard the prayer of petition which you offered in my presence. I have consecrated this house which you have built and I set my name there forever; my eyes and my heart shall be there always.

1 Kings 8:29

May your eyes be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, My name shall be there; listen to the prayer your servant makes toward this place.

2 Samuel 7:13

He it is who shall build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.

Jeremiah 32:34

Instead they set up their abominations in the house which bears my name in order to defile it.

Nehemiah 1:9

but if you return to me and carefully keep my commandments, even though your outcasts have been driven to the farthest corner of the world, I will gather them from there, and bring them back to the place I have chosen as the dwelling place for my name.

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 33:7

An idol he had made he placed in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.

2 Chronicles 7:20

I will uproot the people from the land I gave and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. I will make it a proverb and a byword among all nations.

2 Chronicles 7:12

The Lord appeared to Solomon during the night and said to him: I have heard your prayer, and I have chosen this place for my house of sacrifice.

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord said: Even Judah will I put out of my sight as I did Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house of which I said: There shall my name be.

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 Kings 21:4

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said: In Jerusalem I will set my name.

Deuteronomy 16:21

You shall not plant an asherah of any kind of wood next to the altar of the Lord, your God, which you will build;

Psalm 74:2

Remember your people, whom you acquired of old, the tribe you redeemed as your own heritage, Mount Zion where you dwell.

1 Kings 9:7

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them and repudiate the house I have consecrated for my name. Israel shall become a proverb and a byword among all nations,

1 Kings 8:44

“When your people go out to war against their enemies, by whatever way you send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city you have chosen and the house I have built for your name,

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.

Ezekiel 23:38

And they also did this to me: on that day, they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my sabbaths.

2 Kings 16:11

Uriah the priest built an altar according to the plans which King Ahaz sent him from Damascus, and had it completed by the time King Ahaz returned from Damascus.

2 Chronicles 6:6

but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to rule my people Israel.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Jeremiah 7:30

The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes—oracle of the Lord. They have set up their detestable things in the house which bears my name, thereby defiling it.