2 Kings 21:4

Tree of Life Version

He even built altars in Adonai’s House, where Adonai had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:13

He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.

1 Kings 8:29

Let Your eyes be open toward this House night and day, toward the place of which You have said: ‘My Name shall be there;’ listening to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

1 Kings 9:3

Adonai said to him: “I have heard your prayer and your petition that you made before Me. I have consecrated this House, which you have built, to put My Name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there every day.

2 Kings 23:12

The king also tore down the altars made by the kings of Judah on the roof—the upper chamber of Ahaz and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the House of Adonai. He smashed them suddenly there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:27

Adonai said, “I will banish Judah also from My presence as I banished Israel, and I have spurned this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the House about which I had said: ‘My Name will be there.’”

2 Chronicles 6:5

‘Since the day that I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a House that My Name might be there. Nor did I choose any man to be a leader over My people Israel.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But I have chosen Jerusalem that My Name would abide there and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

Exodus 20:24

You are to make an altar of earth for Me, and there you will sacrifice your burnt offerings, your fellowship offerings—your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come to you and bless you.

Jeremiah 32:31

“Indeed this city has caused My anger and of My fury from the day that they built it up to this day, so that I will remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 32:34

Instead they set up their abominations in the House where My Name is called, to defile it.

Jeremiah 32:35

They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, to make their sons and their daughters pass through fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor did it enter My mind that they would do this loathsome thing, causing Judah to sin.”

Jeremiah 7:30

“The children of Judah have done what is evil in My sight”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“They have set their detestable things in the House that bears My Name to defile it.

Ezekiel 23:38

Again, this they have done to Me—they defiled My Sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Shabbatot.

Ezekiel 23:39

On the same day that they slaughtered their children to their idols, they came into My Sanctuary to profane it. See, that is what they have done within My House!

Deuteronomy 12:5

Rather you are to seek only the place Adonai your God chooses from all your tribes to put His Name to dwell—there you will come.