2 Kings 21:4
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And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, “In Jerusalem will I put My name.”
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built [pagan] altars in the house (temple) of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name (Presence).”
And he built [heathen] altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put My Name [and the pledge of My presence].
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put my name.”
He even built altars in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple—the very place the Lord was speaking of when he said: “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
He erected altars in the house of Adonai, about which Adonai had said, “In Yerushalayim I will put my name.”
In the temple, where only the Lord was supposed to be worshiped, Manasseh built altars for the worship of pagan gods
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.
He built altars to honor false gods in the Lord’s Temple. (This is the place the Lord was talking about when he said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”)
He built altars in the Lord's temple. The Lord had said about his temple, ‘That is my home in Jerusalem where people will worship me.’
He built altars in the House of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”
The Lord had said about the ·Temple [L house], “I will ·be worshiped [L put my name] in Jerusalem,” but Manasseh built altars [C pagan] in the ·Temple [L house] of the Lord.
Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, of the which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my Name.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the Lord had said was where he should be worshiped.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put My name.”
The Lord had said about the Temple, “I will be worshiped in Jerusalem.” But Manasseh built altars in the Temple of the Lord.
He also built altars in the Lord’s Temple, about which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will place my Name.”
Likewise, he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem I will put my name.
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built altars in the temple of Yahweh about which Yahweh had said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
He rebuilt the hilltop shrines that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He built altars for Baal and made a shameful Asherah idol, just as Ahab the king of Israel had done. Heathen altars to the sun god, moon god, and the gods of the stars were placed even in the Temple of the Lord—in the very city and building that the Lord had selected to honor his own name.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. In God’s judgment he was a bad king—an evil king. He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that had been scoured from the country when God dispossessed the pagan nations in favor of the children of Israel. He rebuilt all the sex-and-religion shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he built altars and phallic images for the sex god Baal and sex goddess Asherah, exactly what Ahab king of Israel had done. He worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations. He even built these pagan altars in The Temple of God, the very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by God’s decree (“in Jerusalem I place my Name”) to God’s Name. And he built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of God. He burned his own son in a sacrificial offering. He practiced black magic and fortunetelling. He held séances and consulted spirits from the underworld. Much evil—in God’s judgment, a career in evil. And God was angry.
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built altars in Yahweh’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said: In Jerusalem I will set my name.
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built altars in the temple of the Lord of which the Lord had stated, “I will place my name in Jerusalem.”
The Lord had said about the Temple, “I will be worshiped in Jerusalem,” but Manasseh built altars in the Temple of the Lord.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.”
He built altars in the Lord’s temple. The Lord had said about his temple, “I will put my Name there in Jerusalem.”
He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”
He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put my Name.’
He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
He built pagan altars in the Temple of the Lord, the place where the Lord had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put my name.’
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put my name.’
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”
He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”
And he built mizbechot in the Beis Hashem, of which Hashem said, In Yerushalayim will I put Shmi (My Name).
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem will I put my name.”
He even built altars in Adonai’s House, where Adonai had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
He constructed altars in the Eternal’s temple to foreign, pagan gods. This was the temple the Eternal had spoken of when He said, “My name will dwell in Jerusalem.”
He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
And he builded altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, I shall set my name in Jerusalem. (And he built altars in the House of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, I shall set my name in Jerusalem there.)
And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah said, `In Jerusalem I put My name.'
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