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2 Chronicles 33:4

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Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

KJV

Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 33

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

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.

This site's exposition

built altars in the house

Solomon's temple held one altar of burnt offering and one golden altar of incense, after the pattern of Exodus 27 and 30. Manasseh raised more altars inside the house the LORD had named for Himself. Adam Clarke reads his Baals as the sun and moon.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וּבָנָ֥הand he built

    uvanahH1129 →376 times

  • מִזְבְּח֖וֹתaltars

    mizbechotH4196 →401 times

  • בְּבֵ֣יתin [the] house of

    beveitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe had said

    ʾamarH559 →5305 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֥םin Jerusalem

    birushalimH3389 →643 times

  • יִֽהְיֶה־it will be

    yihyeh-H1961 →3559 times

  • שְּׁמִ֖יname my

    shemiH8034 →864 times

  • לְעוֹלָֽם׃for ever

    leolamH5769 →438 times

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

Related verses

14 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

2 Chronicles 7:16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.5 works2 Chronicles 33:7Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.4 worksDeuteronomy 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.3 works2 Chronicles 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’3 works1 Kings 8:29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.3 worksEzekiel 43:8When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.3 works
The other 8 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 34:3–4In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.2 works1 Kings 9:3And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.2 worksJeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.2 works2 Kings 21:4–5Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”2 works2 Chronicles 33:15He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.2 works2 Chronicles 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.2 worksEzekiel 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.2 worksJeremiah 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?2 works

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 7:16

    For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 6:20

      May Your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, toward the place where You said You would put Your Name, so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Chronicles 7:15

      Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.

    • 2 Chronicles 7:12

      the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

    • 2 Chronicles 6:5–6

      ‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name…

    • 1 Kings 9:3

      And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart…

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 6:6

    But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

    it leads to

    • Psalms 132:13

      For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

    • 1 Chronicles 28:4

      Yet the LORD, the God of Israel, chose me out of all my father’s house to be king over Israel forever. For He chose Judah as leader, and from the house of Judah He…

    • 2 Chronicles 12:13

      Thus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of…

Where this verse is studied

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

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