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2 Kings 21:3

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

KJV

Conversusque est, et ædificavit excelsa quæ dissipaverat Ezechias pater ejus : et erexit aras Baal, et fecit lucos sicut fecerat Achab rex Israël, et adoravit omnem militiam cæli, et coluit eam.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν τὰ ὑψηλὰ ἃ κατέσπασεν Ἑζεκίας ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνέστησεν θυσιαστήριον τῇ Βάαλ, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἄλση καθὼς ἐποίησεν Ἀχαὰβ βασιλεὺς Ἰσραήλ, καὶ προσεκύνησεν πάσῃ τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἐδούλευσεν αὐτοῖς.

LXX

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

ASV

וַ/יָּ֗שָׁב וַ/יִּ֨בֶן֙ אֶת הַ/בָּמ֔וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר אִבַּ֖ד חִזְקִיָּ֣הוּ אָבִ֑י/ו וַ/יָּ֨קֶם מִזְבְּחֹ֜ת לַ/בַּ֗עַל וַ/יַּ֤עַשׂ אֲשֵׁרָה֙ כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֗ה אַחְאָב֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַ/יִּשְׁתַּ֨חוּ֙ לְ/כָל צְבָ֣א הַ/שָּׁמַ֔יִם וַֽ/יַּעֲבֹ֖ד אֹתָֽ/ם

Hebrew

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In this verse

People HezekiahAhab

In the original Hebrew

21 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֵׁרָ֖ה
'shrh
proper_noun · 40×
אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אַחְאָ֖ב
'ch'b
proper_noun · 93×
בְנ֣וֹת
bnvt
verb · 365×
בַּ֔עַל
b'l
proper_noun · 79×
בָּמ֖וֹת
bmvt
noun · 104×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
חִזְקִיָּ֖הוּ
chzqyhv
proper_noun · 130×
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל
yshr'l
proper_noun · 2486×
יִּשְׁתַּ֖חוּ
yshtchv
verb · 174×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
ם
m
verb · 183×
ם
m
verb · 287×
מֶֽלֶךְ
mlk
noun · 2518×
מִּזְבֵּ֖חַ
mzbch
noun · 402×
צְבָא֖וֹת
tsb'vt
noun · 480×
שׁ֣וּב
shvb
verb · 1058×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 16:31 — And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and
  • 1Kgs 16:33 — And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
  • 2Kgs 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
  • 2Kgs 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
  • 2Kgs 18:4 — He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it
  • 2Kgs 23:4 — 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,
  • 2Kgs 23:5 — And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned i
  • Acts 7:42 — Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f
  • Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
  • Deut 4:19 — And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD
  • Deut 16:21 — Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
  • Deut 17:3 — And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
  • Jer 8:2 — And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and wh
  • Jer 23:27 — Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.