2 Kings 21:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ He made his son pass through fire; he practised soothsaying and augury, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁷ The carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, ‘In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;