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2 Kings 21:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger. "
2 Kings 21:6
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4 He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house.
6 He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
7 He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;
8 I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
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2 Kings 21:1
"Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah."
2 Kings 21:2
"He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel."
2 Kings 21:3
"For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them."
2 Kings 21:4
"He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”"
2 Kings 21:5
"He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house."
2 Kings 21:7
"He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;"
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