2 Kings 21:5

He builds altars to the host of heaven in both courts of the temple. The defilement spreads through the sacred precincts.

Cross-references · 14

• 1 Kgs 7:12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
• 2 Kgs 23:12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
• 2 Kgs 23:4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
• 1 Kgs 6:36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
• Ezek 42:3Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
• Ezek 43:5So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.
• Ezek 40:28And he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
• 2 Chr 33:15And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
• Ezek 44:19And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.
• Ezek 40:37And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.
• 2 Chr 33:5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
• Ezek 40:32And he brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measures.
• 2 Kgs 23:6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
• Ezek 40:47So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the house.

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