Menasheh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Cheftzi-Bah.
Jeremiah 32:34 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But they set their abominations [of idol worship] in the house which is called by My Name to defile it. American Standard Version (1901) But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it. Common English Bible They set up their disgusting idols in the temple that bears my name and violated it; Catholic Public Domain Version And they have placed their idols in the house where my name is invoked, so that they defiled it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they have set their idols in the house in which my name is called upon, to defile it. |
Menasheh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim: and his mother's name was Cheftzi-Bah.
He brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside of Yerushalayim, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust of it on the graves of the common people.
He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of the LORD, and in Yerushalayim, and cast them out of the city.
Moreover all the chiefs of the Kohanim, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had made holy in Yerushalayim.
Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn't know, they and their fathers and the kings of Yehudah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,
for both prophet and Kohen are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD.
All your lovers have forgotten you; they don't seek you: for I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
You were now turned, and had done that which is right in my eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and you had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don't do this abominable thing that I hate.
and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?
For the children of Yehudah have done that which is evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
They have built the high places of Tofet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, nor did it come into my mind.