2 Kings 21:4-7 ▼

4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, |I will put my name in Jerusalem.|

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

6 He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and practiced divination, and consulted mediums, and spiritists: he worked much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 He set the engraved 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 forever;