He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
2 Chronicles 33:4 - Tree of Life Version He built altars in the House of Adonai—of which Adonai had said, “My Name will be in Jerusalem forever.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Also he built [heathen] altars in the Lord's house, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall My Name be forever. American Standard Version (1901) And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. Common English Bible He even built altars in the LORD’s temple, the very place the LORD was speaking about when he said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” Catholic Public Domain Version Also, he built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
He will build a house for My Name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
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.
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.
Then Urijah the kohen built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and Urijah the kohen finished it by the time King Ahaz returned from Damascus.
Ahaz even collected the utensils of the House of God and cut the utensils of the House of God into pieces. He shut the doors of the House of Adonai and made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth made by human hands.
He also removed the foreign gods and idols from the House of Adonai, as well as all the altars that he had built on the mount of the House of Adonai and in Jerusalem and threw them outside the city.
Then he placed the carved image of the idol that he had made in the House of God—of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this House and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name forever.
They in turn gave it to the carpenters and the builders to buy quarried stone as well as timber—for joining and making beams—for the buildings that the kings of Judah had let fall into ruin.
‘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.
But I have chosen Jerusalem that My Name would abide there and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
For now I have chosen and consecrated this House so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually.
“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.
“Then the place Adonai your God chooses to make His Name dwell, there you are to bring all that I command you—your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes, the offering of your hand, and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to Adonai.