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 7:12The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
• 2 Kgs 23:12The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
• 2 Kgs 23:4The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
• 1 Kgs 6:36He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.
• Ezek 42:3Over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third floor.
• Ezek 43:5The Spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and behold, Yahweh’s glory filled the house.
• Ezek 40:28Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate: and he measured the south gate according to these measurements;
• 2 Chr 33:15He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
• Ezek 44:19When they go out into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments in which they minister, and lay them in the holy rooms; and they shall put on other garments, that they not sanctify the people with their garments.
• Ezek 40:37The posts of it were toward the outer court; and palm trees were on its posts, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.
• 2 Chr 33:5He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
• Ezek 40:32He brought me into the inner court toward the east: and he measured the gate according to these measurements;
• 2 Kgs 23:6He brought out the Asherah from Yahweh’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.
• Ezek 40:47He measured the court, one hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits wide, square; and the altar was before the house.

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