2 Kings 21:5

5 And he built altars ¹for all the host of heaven in ²the two courts of the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 21:5 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 21:5

And he built altars for all the host of heaven
Sun, moon, and stars:

in the two courts of the house of the Lord;
in the court of the priests, and in the court of the people; and all this must be supposed to be done, not as soon as he began to reign, but when he was grown up to man's estate, and had children, as the next verse shows; unless it can be thought that those nobles in Judah, who liked not the reformation made by Hezekiah, took the advantage of his youth, and advised him to these idolatries.

2 Kings 21:5 In-Context

3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name."

5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

6 And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt 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 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, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

Cross References

• 1. [See ver. 3 above]
• 2. 2 Kings 23:12; 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12