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

2 Kings 21:5

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

  • And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

  • And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

  • And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

  • So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

How delightful were our meditations on the last reign! How many pleasing views had we of Sion in its glory (that is, in its purity and in its triumphs), of the king in his beauty! (for Isa. 33:17 refers to Hezekiah), and (as it follows there, 2 Kgs. 21:20) Jerusalem was a quiet habitation because a city of righteousness , Isa. 1:26. But now we have melancholy work upon our hands, unpleasant ground…

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