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2 Chronicles 33:5

in 2 Chronicles 33

In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

KJV

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

This verse in 2 Chronicles 33

Commentary

3 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

In both courtyards

The two courts were the court of the priests and the great court Solomon built at 4:9. Josiah later tore down these altars and threw their dust into the Kidron, as 2 Kings 23:12 records. Star worship stood where Israel gathered to pray.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He built altars - See the principal facts in this chapter explained in the notes on 2 Kings 21:1-17 (note).

The words behind it

9 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.

  • וַיִּ֥בֶןand he built

    vaiyivenH1129 →376 times

  • מִזְבְּח֖וֹתaltars

    mizbechotH4196 →401 times

  • לְכָל־to all

    lekholH3605 →5413 times

  • צְבָ֣א[the] host of

    tzeva'H6635 →485 times

  • הַשָּׁמָ֑יִםthe heavens

    hashamayimH8064 →421 times

  • בִּשְׁתֵּ֖יin [the] two

    bishteiH8147 →768 times

  • חַצְר֥וֹת[the] courtyards of

    chatzrotH2691 →191 times

  • בֵּית־[the] house of

    beit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוָֽה׃Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

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

The walk

3 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 4:9

    He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 6:36

      Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

    • 2 Kings 21:5

      In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

    • 1 Kings 7:12

      The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

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.