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列王纪下 21:7

他又把自己所做的亞舍拉雕像安放在聖殿中,耶和華曾對大衛和他的兒子所羅門論到這殿說:“我要在這殿和我從以色列眾支派中揀選的耶路撒冷,立我的名,直到永遠。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Groves;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Manasseh;   Rulers;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Reverence-Irreverence;   Sacrilege;   The Topic Concordance - Choosing/chosen;   Jerusalem;   Name;   Obedience;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;   Kings;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Manasseh;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Manasseh, king of judah;   Zephaniah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Elect, Election;   Ethics;   Ezekiel, Theology of;   Gods and Goddesses, Pagan;   Kings, First and Second, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Asherah;   Grove;   Jealousy, Image of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Abomination of Desolation;   Ashtoreth;   Grove;   Josiah;   Manasseh (2);   Nineveh;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Asherah;   Baal;   Gods, Pagan;   High Place;   Jealousy, Image of;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asherah;   Chronicles, I;   Israel;   Manasseh;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Grove;   Manasseh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Manasseh;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alliance;   Asherah;   High Place;   Idolatry;   Images;   Temple;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ashtoreth;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
又 在 殿 内 立 雕 刻 的 亚 舍 拉 像 。 耶 和 华 曾 对 大 卫 和 他 儿 子 所 罗 门 说 : 我 在 以 色 列 众 支 派 中 所 选 择 的 耶 路 撒 冷 和 这 殿 , 必 立 我 的 名 , 直 到 永 远 。

Contextual Overview

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was king fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 He did what the Lord said was wrong. He did the hateful things the other nations had done—the nations that the Lord had forced out of the land ahead of the Israelites. 3 Manasseh's father, Hezekiah, had destroyed the places where gods were worshiped, but Manasseh rebuilt them. He built altars for Baal, and he made an Asherah idol as Ahab king of Israel had done. Manasseh also worshiped all the stars of the sky and served them. 4 The Lord had said about the Temple, "I will be worshiped in Jerusalem," but Manasseh built altars in the Temple of the Lord . 5 He built altars to worship the stars in the two courtyards of the Temple of the Lord . 6 He made his own son pass through fire. He practiced magic and told the future by explaining signs and dreams, and he got advice from mediums and fortune-tellers. He did many things the Lord said were wrong, which made the Lord angry. 7 Manasseh carved an Asherah idol and put it in the Temple. The Lord had said to David and his son Solomon about the Temple, "I will be worshiped forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel. 8 I will never again make the Israelites wander out of the land I gave their ancestors. But they must obey everything I have commanded them and all the teachings my servant Moses gave them." 9 But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them to do more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

Bible Verse Review
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he set: 2 Kings 23:6, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:15

In this house: 2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 23:27, 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 8:29, 1 Kings 8:44, 1 Kings 9:3, 1 Kings 9:7, 2 Chronicles 7:12, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:20, Nehemiah 1:9, Psalms 74:2, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 78:69, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, Jeremiah 32:34

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 21:2 - And he did 2 Kings 21:16 - beside his sin 2 Kings 23:4 - to bring Jeremiah 7:30 - they Jeremiah 19:4 - estranged Ezekiel 5:11 - thou hast Ezekiel 7:20 - but Ezekiel 8:3 - the image Ezekiel 23:38 - they have

Cross-References

Genesis 21:11
This troubled Abraham very much because Ishmael was also his son.
Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the boy and the slave woman. Do whatever Sarah tells you. The descendants I promised you will be from Isaac.
Genesis 21:32
After Abraham and Abimelech made the agreement at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.
Genesis 21:34
And Abraham lived as a stranger in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
Numbers 23:23
No tricks will work on the people of Jacob, and no magic will work against Israel. People now say about them, ‘Look what God has done for Israel!'
Psalms 86:8
Lord, there is no god like you and no works like yours.
Psalms 86:10
You are great and you do miracles. Only you are God.
Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say to yourself, ‘Who gave me all these children? I was sad and lonely, defeated and separated from my people. So who reared these children? I was left all alone. Where did all these children come from?'"
Isaiah 66:8
No one has ever heard of that happening; no one has ever seen that happen. In the same way no one ever saw a country begin in one day; no one has ever heard of a new nation beginning in one moment. But Jerusalem will give birth to her children just as soon as she feels the birth pains.
Ephesians 3:10
His purpose was that through the church all the rulers and powers in the heavenly world will now know God's wisdom, which has so many forms.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,.... Which was either an image that had been placed in a grove planted by him, and now removed into the house or temple of the Lord; or, as some think, this was a representation of a grove, a carved grove of gold or silver, in the midst of which an image was placed in the temple; though what Selden observes b, seems best of all, that this was an image of Asherah, as in the original text; that is, of Astarte or Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, 1 Kings 11:5, the same the Phoenicians are said to call Astroarche, and affirm it to be the moon c: in 2 Chronicles 33:7 it is called a carved image the idol he had made; and an Arabic writer d says, it had four faces, which seems to be a figure of the cherubim; but, according to Suidas e, it was the statue of Jupiter, who also says it had four faces:

of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: that is, of which house or temple:

in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever; see 1 Kings 8:29

1 Kings 8:29- :.

b De Dis Syris, Syntagm. 2. c. 2. p. 233. c Herodian. l. 5. c. 15. d Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 66. e In voce μανασσηςα.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A graven image of the grove - Rather, “the carved work of the Asherah.” This Asherah which Manasseh placed in the very temple itself, from where it was afterward taken by Josiah to be destroyed 2 Kings 23:6. Such a profanation was beyond anything that had been done either by Athaliah 2 Kings 11:18, or by Ahaz 2 Kings 16:14-18; 2 Chronicles 29:5-7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 21:7. He set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house — Every one may see that Asherah here must signify an idol, and not a grove; and for the proof of this see the observations at the end of the chapter. 2 Kings 21:26.


 
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