(A)He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (B)“In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

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He even set a carved image of [a]Asherah that he had made, in the [b]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, (A)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
  2. 2 Kings 21:7 Temple

11 ‘Therefore, as I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have (A)defiled My sanctuary with all your (B)detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; (C)My eye will not spare, nor will I have any pity.

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20 ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,
He set it in majesty;
(A)But they made from it
The images of their abominations—
Their detestable things;
Therefore I have made it
Like refuse to them.

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