2 Chronicles 33:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.””
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“Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah of which Jehovah had said, `In Jerusalem is My name to the age.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 2 Chronicles 33:4 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 12:11then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- 1 Kings 8:29May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.
- 1 Kings 9:3And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 2 Kings 16:11And Uriah the priest built the altar according to all the instructions King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, and he completed it by the time King Ahaz had returned.
- 2 Kings 16:16So Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had commanded.
- 2 Kings 21:4Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:5‘Since the day I brought My people out of the land of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there, nor have I chosen anyone to be ruler over My people Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:6But now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 2 Chronicles 7:16For I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My Name may be there forever. My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.
- 2 Chronicles 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- Jeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
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