2 Kings 21:5
◄  2 Kings 21:5  ►
New International Version (©2011)
In the two courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He built these altars for all the powers of the heavens in both courtyards of the LORD's Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the LORD's temple.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He built two altars to every star in the heavens in the two courts of the LORD's Temple.

NET Bible (©2006)
In the two courtyards of the LORD's temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
In the two courtyards of the LORD's temple, he built altars for the entire army of heaven.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he built altars for all the army of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

American King James Version
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

American Standard Version
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

World English Bible
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
And he buildeth altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:1-9 Young persons generally desire to become their own masters, and to have early possession of riches and power. But this, for the most part, ruins their future comfort, and causes mischief to others. It is much happier when young persons are sheltered under the care of parents or guardians, till age gives experience and discretion. Though such young persons are less indulged, they will afterwards be thankful. Manasseh wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, as if on purpose to provoke him to anger; he did more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed. Manasseh went on from bad to worse, till carried captive to Babylon. The people were ready to comply with his wishes, to obtain his favour and because it suited their depraved inclinations. In the reformation of large bodies, numbers are mere time-servers, and in temptation fall away.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. The temple of Solomon had two courts only, an inner and an outer. The outer court was for the people, the inner for the priests and Levites. Manasseh desecrated the temple to the extent of setting up in each of these two courts an idolatrous altar, dedicated to the worship of the host of heaven. In the inner court his altar was a rival to the great brazen altar of Solomon (1 Kings 9:64; 2 Chronicles 4:1), which Ahaz had for a time removed from its place in front of the porch (2 Kings 16:14), but which Hezekiah had most certainly reinstated.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. the two courts of the house of the Lord—the court of the priests, and the large court of the people.

2 Kings 21:5 Parallel Commentaries

2 Kings 21:5 NIV
2 Kings 21:5 NLT
2 Kings 21:5 ESV
2 Kings 21:5 NASB
2 Kings 21:5 KJV

Bible Hub: Online Parallel Bible


Manasseh's Idolatrous Reign in Judah
…4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he worked much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. …

1 Kings 7:12 The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the LORD with its portico.
2 Kings 23:4 The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel.
2 Kings 23:5 He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem--those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
2 Kings 23:12 He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.
2 Chronicles 4:9 He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze.