2 Kings 21:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

He set

2 Kings 23:6

2 Chronicles 33:7

In this house

General references

2 Kings 23:32

Jeremiah 32:34

Bible References

He set

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

In this house

And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.

That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made.

But if you come back to me and keep my orders and do them, even if those of you who have been forced out are living in the farthest parts of heaven, I will get them from there, and take them back to the place marked out by me for the resting-place of my name.

Keep in mind your band of worshippers, for whom you gave payment in the days which are past, whom you took for yourself as the people of your heritage; even this mountain of Zion, which has been your resting-place.

But he took the tribe of Judah for himself, and the mountain of Zion, in which he had pleasure.

But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

General references

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.