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重新建築他父希西家所拆毀的丘壇,又為巴力築壇,做木偶,且敬拜侍奉天上的萬象, 在耶和華的殿宇中築壇,耶和華曾指著這殿說:「我的名必永遠在耶路撒冷。」 他在耶和華殿的兩院中為天上的萬象築壇,

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He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky[a] and worshiped[b] them. He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”[c] In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:3 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsevaʾ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:3 tn Or “served.”
  3. 2 Chronicles 33:4 tn Heb “In Jerusalem my name will be permanently.”