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2 Chronicles 33:4

Listen to 2 Chronicles 33:4
4 He built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of God,

2 Chronicles 33:4 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 21:4

(See Gill on 2 Kings 21:4)

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2 Chronicles 33:4 In-Context

2 In God's opinion he was a bad king - an evil king. He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that had been scoured from the country when God dispossessed the pagan nations in favor of the children of Israel.
3 He rebuilt the sex-and-religion shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down, he built altars and phallic images for the sex god Baal and the sex goddess Asherah and worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations.
4 He built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of God,
5 the very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by God's decree to God's Name ("in Jerusalem I place my Name").
6 He burned his own sons in a sacrificial rite in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft and fortunetelling. He held sŽances and consulted spirits from the underworld. Much evil - in God's view a career in evil. And God was angry.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.

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