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Manasseh Reigns in Judah

2 Chronicles 33:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
KJV
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
WEB
He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
ASV
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
LSV
And he has built altars in the house of YHWH of which YHWH had said, “My Name is in Jerusalem for all time.”
YLT
And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah of which Jehovah had said, 'In Jerusalem is My name to the age.'
DBY
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
DRC
He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
GNV
Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.
JPS
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem shall My name be for ever.'
LXXE
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וּבָנָ֥ה מִזְבְּח֖וֹת בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה אֲשֶׁר֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֥ם יִֽהְיֶה־שְּׁמִ֖י לְעוֹלָֽם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε θυσιαστήρια ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου, οὗ εἶπε Κύριος, ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά μου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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…
  • 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.’
  • 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.
  • 2 Chronicles 34:3–4In 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…
  • 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 Kings 21:4–5Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.” In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
  • 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.

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