2 Kings 21:7

New International Reader's Version

Manasseh had carved a pole used to worship the female god named Asherah. He put it in the temple. The Lord had spoken to David and his son Solomon about the temple. He had said, “My Name will be in this temple and in Jerusalem forever. Out of all the cities in the tribes of Israel I have chosen Jerusalem.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He is the one who will build a house where I will put my Name. I will set up the throne of his kingdom. It will last forever.

1 Kings 8:29

Let your eyes look toward this temple night and day. You said, ‘I will put my Name there.’ So please listen to the prayer I’m praying toward this place.

1 Kings 8:44

“Suppose your people go to war against their enemies. It doesn’t matter where you send them. And suppose they pray to you toward the city you have chosen. They pray toward the temple I’ve built for your Name.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him, “I have heard you pray to me. I have heard you ask me to help you. You have built this temple. I have set it apart for myself. My Name will be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

1 Kings 9:7

Then I will remove Israel from the land. It is the land I gave them. I will turn my back on this temple. I will do it even though I have set it apart for my Name to be there. Then Israel will be hated by all the nations. They will laugh and joke about Israel.

2 Kings 16:11

So Uriah the priest built an altar. He followed all the plans King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. He finished it before Ahaz returned.

2 Kings 21:4

He built altars in the Lord’s temple. The Lord had said about his temple, “I will put my Name there in Jerusalem.”

2 Kings 23:27

So the Lord said, “I will remove Judah from my land. I will do to them what I did to Israel. I will turn my back on Jerusalem. It is the city I chose. I will also turn my back on this temple. I spoke about it. I said, ‘I will put my Name there.’ ” (1 Kings 8:29)

2 Kings 23:4

Certain things in the Lord’s temple had been made to honor other gods. They were the god named Baal, the female god named Asherah and all the stars in the sky. The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest to remove those things. The king ordered the priests who were next in rank and the men who guarded the doors to help Hilkiah. Josiah took those things that had been in the Lord’s temple and burned them outside Jerusalem. He burned them in the fields in the Kidron Valley. And he took the ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6

Josiah removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple. It had been used to worship the female god named Asherah. He took it to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. There he burned it. He ground it into powder. And he scattered it over the graves of the ordinary people.

2 Chronicles 33:15

Manasseh got rid of the false gods. He removed the statue of one of those gods from the Lord’s temple. He also removed all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem. He threw them out of the city.

2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh had carved a statue of a god. He put it in God’s temple. God had spoken to David and his son Solomon about the temple. He had said, “My Name will be in this temple and in Jerusalem forever. Out of all the cities in the tribes of Israel I have chosen Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But now I have chosen Jerusalem. I will put my Name there. And I have chosen David to rule over my people Israel.’

2 Chronicles 7:12

The Lord appeared to him at night. The Lord said, “I have heard your prayer. I have chosen this place for myself. It is a temple where sacrifices will be offered.

2 Chronicles 7:16

I have chosen this temple. I have set it apart for myself. My Name will be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

2 Chronicles 7:20

Then I will remove Israel from my land. It is the land I gave them. I will turn my back on this temple. I will do it even though I have set it apart for my Name to be there. I will make all the nations hate it. They will laugh and joke about it.

Nehemiah 1:9

But if you return to me, I will bring you back. If you obey my commands, I will gather you together again. I will bring you back from the farthest places on earth. I will bring you to the special place where I have chosen to put my Name.’

Psalm 74:2

Remember the nation that you chose as your own so long ago. Remember that you set us free from slavery to be your very own people. Remember Mount Zion, where you lived.

Psalm 78:58

They made God angry by going to their high places. They made him jealous by worshiping the statues of their gods.

Jeremiah 32:34

They set up the hateful statues of their gods. They did it in the house where I have put my Name. They made my house ‘unclean.’

Jeremiah 7:30

“The people of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes,” announces the Lord. “They have set up statues of their gods. They have worshiped them in the house where my Name is. They have made my house ‘unclean.’ I hate those statues.

Ezekiel 23:38

Here are some other things the sisters have done to me. They have made my temple ‘unclean.’ They have misused my Sabbath days.

Deuteronomy 16:21

Don’t set up a wooden pole used to worship the female god named Asherah. Don’t set it up beside the altar you build to worship the Lord your God.