2 Chronicles 33:4
Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:4 in other translations
| BSB | Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” |
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| WEB | He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.” |
| ASV | And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
| YLT | And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah of which Jehovah had said, ‘In Jerusalem is My name to the age.' |
| DARBY | And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
| BBE | And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever. |
| Webster | Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
What does 2 Chronicles 33:4 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Chronicles 33:1-20
We have seen Manasseh's wickedness; here we have his repentance, and a memorable instance it is of the riches of God's pardoning mercy, and the power of his renewing grace. Deprived of his liberty, separated from his evil counsellors and companions, without any prospect but of ending his days in a wretched prison, Manasseh thought upon what had passed; he began to cry for mercy and deliverance. He confessed his…
2 Chronicles 33:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 2 Chronicles 33:4
- 2 Chronicles 7:16
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
- 2 Chronicles 6:6
But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:29
That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.
- Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there shall be a place which the Lord your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the Lord:
- Jeremiah 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
- 2 Chronicles 34:3-4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
- 1 Kings 9:3
And the Lord said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
- 2 Kings 21:4-5
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 32:19
And they spake against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, which were the work of the hands of man.
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Context
- 2 Chronicles 33:3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
- 2 Chronicles 33:4
Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
- 2 Chronicles 33:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 33:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Edificó también altares en la casa de Jehová, de la cual había dicho Jehová: En Jerusalem será mi nombre perpetuamente. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et il bâtit des autels dans la maison de l’ Éternel, de laquelle l’ Éternel avait dit: C’est dans Jérusalem que sera mon nom à toujours; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er baute Altäre in dem Hause Jehovas, von welchem Jehova gesagt hatte: In Jerusalem soll mein Name sein ewiglich! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Ædificavit quoque altaria in domo Domini, de qua dixerat Dominus: In Jerusalem erit nomen meum in æternum. |