Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the [a]constellations, and to (A)all the host of heaven.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:5 Of the Zodiac

13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled (A)like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses on whose (B)roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and (C)poured out drink offerings to other gods.” ’ ”

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16 So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, (A)between the porch and the altar, (B)were about twenty-five men (C)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping (D)the sun toward the east.

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Those (A)who worship the host of heaven on the housetops;
Those who worship and swear oaths by the Lord,
But who also swear (B)by [a]Milcom;

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Footnotes

  1. Zephaniah 1:5 Or Malcam, an Ammonite god, 1 Kin. 11:5; Jer. 49:1; Molech, Lev. 18:21

42 Then (A)God turned and gave them up to worship (B)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the Prophets:

(C)‘Did you offer Me slaughtered animals and sacrifices during forty years in the wilderness,
O house of Israel?

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