2 Kings 21:4-7

English Standard Version

^4 (A)And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^(B)“In Jerusalem will I put my name.” ⁵ And he built altars ^(C)for all the host of heaven in ^(D)the two courts of the house of the Lord. ^6 (E)And he burned his son as an offering^[a] and ^(F)used fortune-telling and ^(G)omens and dealt ^(H)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁷ And the carved image of ^(I)Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^(J)and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.