Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
Parallel translations
- WEB He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
- KJV Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
- NKJV He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.”
- NASB He built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
- NLT He built pagan altars in the Temple of the Lord, the place where the Lord had said, “My name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
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Quick answer
He builds pagan altars within the Lord's own temple, the place God had claimed for His name forever. This was a brazen desecration of God's holy dwelling.
Overview
Placing idolatrous altars in the temple defiled the very house God had set apart (cf. 2 Chronicles 7:16). It was an affront to the Lord's exclusive claim on Jerusalem and His worship. Such profanation of the sacred space marks the depth of Manasseh's rebellion against the covenant God.
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- 2 Chr 7:16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 2 Chr 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 1 Kgs 8:29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
- Deut 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Jer 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- 2 Chr 34:3–4In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- 2 Chr 33:15He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
- 2 Chr 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
- 2 Kgs 21:4–5Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
- 1 Kgs 9:3And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
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