2 Kings 21:4-7 ▼

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: 'In Jerusalem will I put My name.'

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

6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised soothsaying, and used enchantments, and appointed them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him.

7 And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever;