2 Chronicles 33:4

The Reign Of Manasseh

³ He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them. ⁴ He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.” ⁵ He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

From Generation to Generation

House of the Lord

Lord Said

Temple of the Lord

Generation To Generation

Jehovah

Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 7:16

And I have now chosen and consecrated this temple so that My name may be there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.

2 Chronicles 6:6

But I have chosen Jerusalem
so that My name will be there,
and I have chosen David
to be over My people Israel.”

Deuteronomy 12:11

then Yahweh your God will choose the place to have His name dwell. Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions, and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

1 Kings 8:29

so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,
toward the place where You said:
My name will be there,
and so that You may hear the prayer
that Your servant prays toward this place.

1 Kings 9:3

The Lord said to him:

I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before Me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put My name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there at all times.

2 Kings 21:4-5

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put My name.”

2 Chronicles 32:19

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem like they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were made by human hands.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

2 Chronicles 34:3-4

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

Jeremiah 7:30

“For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.