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Manasseh built again the altars on the hills that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He built altars for people to worship Baal. He also made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bent down low to worship all the stars in the sky. He built altars in the Lord's temple.[a] The Lord had said about his temple, ‘That is my home in Jerusalem where people will worship me.’

Manasseh built altars to give honour to the stars, in both yards of the Lord's temple.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:4 These were altars to give honour to false gods, not to the Lord.