◄ 2 Kings 21:5 ►
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Good News Translation
In the two courtyards of the Temple he built altars for the worship of the stars.

New Revised Standard Version
He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
and the stars. He placed these altars in both courts of the temple,

New American Bible
And he built altars for the whole host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

in the two courts.

2 Kings 23:4,6 And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel. . . .

1 Kings 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of polished stones, and one row of beams of cedar.

1 Kings 7:12 And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.

2 Chronicles 33:5,15 And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 40:28,32,37,47 And he brought me into the inner court at the south gate: and he measured the gate according to the former measures. . . .

Ezekiel 42:3 Over against the twenty cubits of the inner court, and over against the pavement of the outward court that was paved with stone, where there was a gallery joined to a triple gallery.

Ezekiel 43:5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court: and behold the house was filled with the glory of the Lord.

Ezekiel 44:19 And when they shall go forth to the outward court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them up in the store chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall clothe themselves with other garments: and they shall not sanctify the people with their vestments.

Context
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
…4And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name. 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.6And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers, to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:12
And the great court was made round with three rows of hewed stones, and one row of planks of cedar, which also was observed in the inner court of the house of the Lord, and in the porch of the house.

2 Kings 23:4
And the king commanded Helcias, the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem, in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:5
And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.

2 Kings 23:12
And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron.

2 Chronicles 4:9
He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

2 Kings 21:4
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