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2 Kings 21:3

KJV

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.

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:19
KJV
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 thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

A Warning against Idolatry

Deuteronomy 16:21
KJV
¶ Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Forbidden Forms of Worship

Deuteronomy 17:2
KJV
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

Purge the Idolater

Deuteronomy 20:18
KJV
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.

Laws of Warfare

1 Kings 16:31
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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 served Baal, and worshipped him.

Ahab Reigns in Israel, Marries Jezebel

2 Kings 17:16
KJV
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.

Israel Carried Captive to Assyria

Why Israel Fell
2 Kings 18:4
KJV
¶ 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: and he called it Nehushtan.

Hezekiah Destroys Idolatry in Judah

Hezekiah Reigns over Judah
2 Kings 23:4
KJV
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, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

Josiah Destroys Idolatry

2 Kings 23:5
KJV
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 incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

Josiah Destroys Idolatry

Jeremiah 7:30
KJV GOD
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.

The Valley of Slaughter