(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.” And he built altars (C)for all the host of heaven in (D)the two courts of the house of the Lord. (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. 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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 21:6 Hebrew made his son pass through the fire

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