2 Kings 21:7

New Century Version

Manasseh carved an Asherah idol and put it in the Temple. The Lord had said to David and his son Solomon about the Temple, “I will be worshiped forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for me, and I will let his kingdom rule always.

1 Kings 8:29

Night and day please watch over this Temple where you have said, ‘I will be worshiped there.’ Hear the prayer I pray facing this Temple.

1 Kings 8:44

“When your people go out to fight their enemies along some road on which you send them, your people will pray to you, facing the city which you have chosen and the Temple I have built for you.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him: “I have heard your prayer and what you have asked me to do. You built this Temple, and I have made it a holy place. I will be worshiped there forever and will watch over it and protect it always.

1 Kings 9:7

If you do, I will force Israel to leave the land I have given them, and I will leave this Temple that I have made holy. All the nations will make fun of Israel and speak evil about them.

2 Kings 16:11

So Uriah the priest built an altar, just like the plans King Ahaz had sent him from Damascus. Uriah finished the altar before King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

2 Kings 21:4

The Lord had said about the Temple, “I will be worshiped in Jerusalem,” but Manasseh built altars in the Temple of the Lord.

2 Kings 23:27

The Lord said, “I will send Judah out of my sight, as I have sent Israel away. I will reject Jerusalem, which I chose. And I will take away the Temple about which I said, ‘I will be worshiped there.’ ”

2 Kings 23:4

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the next rank and the gatekeepers to bring out of the Temple of the Lord everything made for Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky. Then Josiah burned them outside Jerusalem in the open country of the Kidron Valley and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

He removed the Asherah idol from the Temple of the Lord and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it and beat it into dust. Then he threw the dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Chronicles 33:15

Manasseh removed the idols of other nations, including the idol in the Temple of the Lord. He removed all the altars he had built on the Temple hill and in Jerusalem and threw them out of the city.

2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh carved an idol and put it in the Temple of God. God had said to David and his son Solomon about the Temple, “I will be worshiped forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have chosen Jerusalem as the place I am to be worshiped, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:12

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself to be a Temple for sacrifices.

2 Chronicles 7:16

I have chosen this Temple and made it holy. So I will be worshiped there forever. Yes, I will always watch over it and love it.

2 Chronicles 7:20

If you do, I will take the Israelites out of my land, the land I have given them, and I will leave this Temple that I have made holy. All the nations will make fun of it and speak evil about it.

Nehemiah 1:9

But if you return to me and obey my commands, I will gather your people from the far ends of the earth. And I will bring them from captivity to where I have chosen to be worshiped.’

Psalm 74:2

Remember the people you bought long ago. You saved us, and we are your very own. After all, you live on Mount Zion.

Psalm 78:58

They made God angry by building places to worship gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

Jeremiah 32:34

They put their hateful idols in the place where I have chosen to be worshiped, so they made it unclean.

Jeremiah 7:30

The people of Judah have done what I said was evil, says the Lord. They have set up their hateful idols in the place where I have chosen to be worshiped and have made it unclean.

Ezekiel 23:38

They have also done this to me: They made my Temple unclean at the same time they dishonored my Sabbaths.

Deuteronomy 16:21

Do not set up a wooden Asherah idol next to the altar you build for the Lord your God,