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2 Chronicles 33:3

in 2 Chronicles 33

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

KJV

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 33

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Altars for Baalim - The Sun and Moon. And made groves, אשרות Asheroth, Astarte, Venus; the host of heaven, all the Planets and Stars. These were the general objects of his devotion.

This site's exposition

rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down

on 2 Chronicles 33:3-6

The list matches 2 Kings 21:3-6 point for point: high places rebuilt, “altars for the Baals”, “Asherah poles” and the host of heaven worshiped. He “sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom” and practiced sorcery and divination, the practices Deuteronomy 18 forbids by name.

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּ֗שָׁבand he returned

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • וַיִּ֙בֶן֙and he built

    vaiyivenH1129 →376 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַבָּמ֔וֹתthe high places

    habamotH1116 →102 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נִתַּ֖ץhe had pulled down

    nitatzH5422 →42 times

  • יְחִזְקִיָּ֣הוּHezekiah

    yechizkiyahuH2396 →127 times

  • אָבִ֑יוfather his

    ʾavivH1 →1212 times

  • וַיָּ֨קֶםand he set up

    vaiyakemH6965 →628 times

  • מִזְבְּח֤וֹתaltars

    mizbechotH4196 →401 times

  • לַבְּעָלִים֙to the Baals

    labealimH1168 →82 times

  • וַיַּ֣עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times

  • אֲשֵׁר֔וֹתAsherah poles

    ʾasherotH842 →40 times

  • וַיִּשְׁתַּ֙חוּ֙and he bowed down

    vaiyishtachuH7812 →172 times

  • לְכָל־to all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • צְבָ֣א[the] host of

    tzeva'H6635 →485 times

  • הַשָּׁמַ֔יִםthe heavens

    hashamayimH8064 →421 times

  • וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֖דand he served

    vaiyaavodH5647 →288 times

  • אֹתָֽם׃<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 31:1

    When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and…

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 18:4

      He removed the high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles. He also demolished the bronze snake called Nehushtan that Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 30:14

    They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 28:24

      Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street…

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 16:21

    Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God,

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 17:16

      They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served…

    • 2 Kings 21:3

      For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped…

    • Exodus 34:13

      Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 17:3

    and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven—which I have forbidden—

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 7:31

      They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

    • Jeremiah 32:35

      They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered…

    • Jeremiah 7:22–23

      For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

Where this verse is studied

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.