2 Chronicles 33:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

In the house

2 Kings 21:7

2 Kings 23:6

God had said

2 Chronicles 33:4

1 Kings 8:29

Psalm 132:13

Which i have

General references

Exodus 20:4

Jeremiah 32:34

Bible References

In the house

He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

He removed the Asherah pole from the Lord's temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. He smashed it to dust and then threw the dust in the public graveyard.

God had said

He built altars in the Lord's temple, about which the Lord had said, "Jerusalem will be my permanent home."

Night and day may you watch over this temple, the place where you promised you would live. May you answer your servant's prayer for this place.

Certainly the Lord has chosen Zion; he decided to make it his home.

Which i have

But now I have chosen Jerusalem as a place to live, and I have chosen David to lead my people Israel.'

"When you direct your people to march out and fight their enemies, and they direct their prayers to the Lord toward his chosen city and this temple I built for your honor,

But I will not tear away the entire kingdom; I will leave your son one tribe for my servant David's sake and for the sake of my chosen city Jerusalem."

He chose the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loves.

General references

"You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

They set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and defiled it.