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He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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;
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The Ultimate Desecration
Commentators stress that Manasseh's sin reached its peak by placing an idol directly inside the Temple. Previous evil kings had built idols elsewhere, but Manasseh defiled the one place God had consecrated for His name. Scholars describe this as an unparalleled act of profanity and the "climax of his impiety."
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2 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
A graven image of the grove - Rather, “the carved work of the Asherah.” This was the Asherah that Manasseh placed in the temple itself, from…
19th Century
Anglican
A graven image of the grove. — The graven image of the Asherah (2 Kings 21:3).
In the house of…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Ver. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he has made in thehouseWhich was e…
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