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<a href="/nasb_/2_chronicles/33.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/33.htm">NASB 1995</a> Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, &#8220In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; <a href="/nasb77/2_chronicles/33.htm">NASB 1977 </a> Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; <a href="/lsb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Then he put the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. <a href="/amp/2_chronicles/33.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Then he set the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name [and the symbol of my Presence] forever; <a href="/csb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: “I will establish my name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. <a href="/hcsb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God&#8217s temple, about which God had said to David and his son Solomon, &#8220I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. <a href="/asv/2_chronicles/33.htm">American Standard Version</a> And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God 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 for ever: <a href="/erv/2_chronicles/33.htm">English Revised Version</a> And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made in the house of God, of which God 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 for ever: <a href="/gwt/2_chronicles/33.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Manasseh had a carved idol made. Then he set it up in God's temple, where God had said to David and his son Solomon, "I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here forever. <a href="/gnt/2_chronicles/33.htm">Good News Translation</a> He placed an image in the Temple, the place about which God had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped. <a href="/isv/2_chronicles/33.htm">International Standard Version</a> He also placed an image that he had carved in God's Temple, the place about which God had told to David and to his son Solomon, "I will place my name in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel," <a href="/msb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, ?In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever. <a href="/net/2_chronicles/33.htm">NET Bible</a> He put an idolatrous image he had made in God's temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home. <a href="/nheb/2_chronicles/33.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God's house, of which God 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: <a href="/wbt/2_chronicles/33.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: <a href="/web/2_chronicles/33.htm">World English Bible</a> He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God 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, I will put my name forever. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_chronicles/33.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And he places the carved image of the idol that he made in the house of God, of which God said to David, and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My Name for all time, <a href="/ylt/2_chronicles/33.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And he placeth the graven image of the idol that he made in the house of God, of which God said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name to the age, <a href="/slt/2_chronicles/33.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And he will set up a carved image, the likeness which he made in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will set my name forever.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of which God had 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 for ever. <a href="/cpdv/2_chronicles/33.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Also, he set up a graven image and molten statue in the house of God, about which God said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever. <a href="/nabre/2_chronicles/33.htm">New American Bible</a> An idol he had made he placed in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever. <a href="/nrsvce/2_chronicles/33.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> The carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever;<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_chronicles/33.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> And he set the image of the idol which had four faces, which he had made, in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen for myself out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever; <a href="/hpbt/2_chronicles/33.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> And he placed the image of four faces that he made in the house of LORD JEHOVAH, of which LORD JEHOVAH said to David and to Solomon his son: “In this house in Jerusalem which I have chosen for myself of all the tribes of Israel I shall command my Shechinah Presence to encamp for eternity.<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_chronicles/33.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God 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 for ever; <a href="/sep/2_chronicles/33.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> And he set the graven image, the molten statue, the idol which he made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever; <a href="/parallel/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zGrb4955Tvs?start=8839" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_chronicles/33.htm">Manasseh Reigns in Judah</a> …6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 7<a href="/hebrew/6459.htm" title="6459: pe·sel (N-msc) -- An idol, image. From pacal; an idol.">Manasseh even took the carved</a> <a href="/hebrew/5566.htm" title="5566: has·se·mel (Art:: N-ms) -- An image, statue. Or cemel; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness.">image</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śāh (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">he had made</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: way·yā·śem (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">and set it up</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bə·ḇêṯ (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">in the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">of God,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">of which</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">God</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: ’ā·mar (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">had said</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">to</a> <a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: dā·wîḏ (N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">David</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: wə·’el- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- To, into, towards. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/1121.htm" title="1121: ḇə·nōw (N-msc:: 3ms) -- Son. From banah; a son, in the widest sense (like 'ab, 'ach, etc.).">and his son</a> <a href="/hebrew/8010.htm" title="8010: šə·lō·mōh (N-proper-ms) -- David's son and successor to his throne. From shalowm; peaceful; Shelomah, David's successor.">Solomon,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2088.htm" title="2088: haz·zeh (Art:: Pro-ms) -- This, here. A primitive word; the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that.">“In this</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bab·ba·yiṯ (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">temple</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: ū·ḇî·rū·šā·lim (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">and in Jerusalem,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">which</a> <a href="/hebrew/977.htm" title="977: bā·ḥar·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To choose. A primitive root; properly, to try, i.e. select.">I have chosen</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: mik·kōl (Prep-m:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">out of all</a> <a href="/hebrew/7626.htm" title="7626: šiḇ·ṭê (N-mpc) -- Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe. From an unused root probably meaning to branch off; a scion, i.e. a stick Or a clan.">the tribes</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">of Israel,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: ’ā·śîm (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">I will establish</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/8034.htm" title="8034: šə·mî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- A primitive word; an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character.">My Name</a> <a href="/hebrew/5865.htm" title="5865: lə·‘ê·lō·wm (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always. For owlam.">forever.</a> 8I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/1_kings/9-3.htm">1 Kings 9:3-7</a> And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time. / And as for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and uprightness, doing all I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and ordinances, / then I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David when I said, ‘You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’ ... <a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm">2 Kings 21:7-9</a> Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever. / I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.” / But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites. <a href="/exodus/20-4.htm">Exodus 20:4-5</a> You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. / You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, <a href="/deuteronomy/4-15.htm">Deuteronomy 4:15-19</a> So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful / that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female, / of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air, ... <a href="/deuteronomy/12-5.htm">Deuteronomy 12:5-7</a> Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go. / To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks. / There, in the presence of the LORD your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all you do, because the LORD your God has blessed you. <a href="/deuteronomy/12-29.htm">Deuteronomy 12:29-31</a> When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land, / be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.” / You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods. <a href="/deuteronomy/16-21.htm">Deuteronomy 16:21-22</a> Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, / and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates. <a href="/1_kings/8-29.htm">1 Kings 8:29</a> May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place. <a href="/1_kings/11-4.htm">1 Kings 11:4-8</a> For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been. / Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. / So Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD; unlike his father David, he did not follow the LORD completely. ... <a href="/2_kings/17-10.htm">2 Kings 17:10-12</a> They set up for themselves sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree. / They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger. / They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.” <a href="/jeremiah/7-30.htm">Jeremiah 7:30</a> For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it. <a href="/ezekiel/8-5.htm">Ezekiel 8:5-6</a> “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy. / “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what they are doing—the great abominations that the house of Israel is committing—to drive Me far from My sanctuary? Yet you will see even greater abominations.” <a href="/ezekiel/8-10.htm">Ezekiel 8:10-11</a> So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel. / Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising. <a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15</a> So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), <a href="/mark/13-14.htm">Mark 13:14</a> So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:he set a carved image.in the house<a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm">2 Kings 21:7,8</a> And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: … <a href="/2_kings/23-6.htm">2 Kings 23:6</a> And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.God had said<a href="/2_chronicles/33-4.htm">2 Chronicles 33:4</a> Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.<a href="/1_kings/8-29.htm">1 Kings 8:29</a> 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.<a href="/psalms/132-13.htm">Psalm 132:13,14</a> For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation… which I have<a href="/2_chronicles/6-6.htm">2 Chronicles 6:6</a> But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel.<a href="/1_kings/8-44.htm">1 Kings 8:44,48</a> If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name: … <a href="/1_kings/11-13.htm">1 Kings 11:13,32</a> Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_chronicles/3-7.htm">Carved</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/29-11.htm">Chosen</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/32-33.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/3-7.htm">Engraved</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-4.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm">Graven</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-5.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/15-16.htm">Idol</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/15-16.htm">Image</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-4.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/30-26.htm">Solomon</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/12-13.htm">Tribes</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_chronicles/33-22.htm">Carved</a> <a href="/nehemiah/1-9.htm">Chosen</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-14.htm">David</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-19.htm">Engraved</a> <a href="/ezra/3-11.htm">Forever</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-19.htm">Graven</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-15.htm">House</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-15.htm">Idol</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-15.htm">Image</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-8.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-9.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/35-3.htm">Solomon</a> <a href="/ezra/6-17.htm">Tribes</a><div class="vheading2">2 Chronicles 33</div>1. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-1.htm">Manasseh's wicked reign</a> 3. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-3.htm">He sets up idolatry, and will not be admonished</a> 11. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">He is carried into Babylon</a> 12. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-12.htm">Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry</a> 18. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-18.htm">His acts</a> 20. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-20.htm">He dying, Amon succeeds him</a> 21. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-21.htm">who is slain by his servants</a> 25. <a href="/2_chronicles/33-25.htm">The murderers being slain, Josiah succeeds him</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The carved image likely represents an idol associated with Canaanite or Assyrian deities, reflecting the syncretism prevalent during his reign. This act signifies a deep spiritual decline, as Manasseh led Judah into practices that were abominable to God (<a href="/2_kings/21-11.htm">2 Kings 21:11</a>).and set it up in the house of God The house of God refers to the temple in Jerusalem, which was the central place of worship for the Israelites. By placing an idol in the temple, Manasseh desecrated the sacred space dedicated to Yahweh. This act of defilement is reminiscent of the abominations committed by the nations that God had driven out before Israel (<a href="/2_chronicles/28-3.htm">2 Chronicles 28:3</a>).of which God had said to David and his son Solomon God's promise to David and Solomon emphasized the temple's significance as a dwelling place for His Name (<a href="/1_kings/8-16.htm">1 Kings 8:16-20</a>). This covenantal promise underscored the temple's role as a symbol of God's presence and favor with Israel. Manasseh's actions directly contradicted the divine instructions given to his forefathers.“In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel Jerusalem was chosen by God as the spiritual and political center of Israel (<a href="/2_chronicles/6-6.htm">2 Chronicles 6:6</a>). The selection of Jerusalem and the temple as His dwelling place highlights God's sovereign choice and the city's unique status among the tribes. This choice is reiterated throughout the Old Testament, emphasizing the city's importance in God's redemptive plan (<a href="/psalms/132-13.htm">Psalm 132:13-14</a>).I will establish My Name forever.” The establishment of God's Name forever signifies His eternal covenant with Israel and His enduring presence among His people (<a href="/2_samuel/7-13.htm">2 Samuel 7:13</a>). This promise points to the ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, who embodies God's presence and reigns eternally (<a href="/john/2-19.htm">John 2:19-21</a>). Manasseh's idolatry stands in stark contrast to this divine promise, highlighting the tension between human rebellion and God's faithfulness.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/m/manasseh.htm">Manasseh</a> King of Judah, son of Hezekiah, known for his idolatry and leading Judah into sin. 2. <a href="/topical/h/house_of_god.htm">House of God</a> Refers to the Temple in Jerusalem, a sacred place where God's presence dwelt among His people. 3. <a href="/topical/d/david.htm">David</a> The second king of Israel, a man after God's own heart, to whom God promised an everlasting dynasty. 4. <a href="/topical/s/solomon.htm">Solomon</a> Son of David, known for his wisdom and for building the Temple in Jerusalem. 5. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The chosen city where God established His Name and where the Temple was built.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_idolatry.htm">The Danger of Idolatry</a> Idolatry is a direct violation of God's commandments and leads to spiritual decay. Manasseh's actions serve as a warning against placing anything above God in our lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_sanctity_of_god's_dwelling.htm">The Sanctity of God's Dwelling</a> The Temple was a sacred place chosen by God. We must respect and honor places dedicated to worship and ensure they remain focused on God. <a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a> Manasseh's idolatry brought judgment upon Judah. Disobedience to God’s commands can lead to severe consequences, both personally and communally. <a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness_to_his_promises.htm">God’s Faithfulness to His Promises</a> Despite Manasseh's actions, God remained faithful to His promise to David and Solomon. This reminds us of God's unwavering faithfulness even when we fall short. <a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_restoration.htm">Repentance and Restoration</a> Later in his life, Manasseh repented, and God restored him. This illustrates the power of repentance and God’s readiness to forgive.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_chronicles_33.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Chronicles 33</a> <a href="/q/why_can_solomon_build_the_temple,_not_david.htm">Why does God prohibit David from building the temple in 2 Samuel 7 yet allow Solomon to do so, raising questions of consistency in divine commands?</a> <a href="/q/was_ezekiel_physically_taken_to_jerusalem.htm">In Ezekiel 8:3–4, what evidence supports or contradicts the claim Ezekiel was physically transported to Jerusalem by a divine hand? </a> <a href="/q/what_does_defiling_god's_temple_mean.htm">What does defiling God's temple mean?</a> <a href="/q/why_no_evidence_of_manasseh's_works.htm">Why is there no archaeological evidence for Manasseh's supposed rebuilding and fortification efforts in 2 Chronicles 33:14, despite these works being noteworthy for that era?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_chronicles/33.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) And he set . . . had made.--And he set the carven image of the idol which he had made. "Idol" (semel) explains "Asherah," the term used in Kings. Both "carven image "and "idol" (Authorised Version, figure) occur in <a href="/deuteronomy/4-16.htm" title="Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,">Deuteronomy 4:16</a>.The house of God.--Chronicles has added, of God, by way of explanation. The Temple proper is meant, as distinct from the courts.Before all.--Out of all.For ever.--Le'elum, a form only found here (equivalent to le'锟絣?m).<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_chronicles/33.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 7, 8. - (Comp. <a href="/psalms/132-13.htm">Psalm 132:13, 14</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/7-10.htm">2 Samuel 7:10</a>.) Verse 7. - A carved image, the idol; translate, a carved image of the idol; i.e. the Asherah; for see the parallel (<a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm">2 Kings 21:7</a>). The idol; Hebrew, סֶמֶל. This name is found here and in ver. 15; in <a href="/deuteronomy/4-16.htm">Deuteronomy 4:16</a>, translated (Authorized Version) "figure;" and <a href="/ezekiel/8-3.htm">Ezekiel 8:3, 5</a>, translated (Authorized Version) "image." <a href="/commentaries/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Manasseh even took the carved פֶּ֥סֶל (pe·sel) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6459.htm">Strong's 6459: </a> An idol, image image הַסֶּ֖מֶל (has·se·mel) Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5566.htm">Strong's 5566: </a> An image, statue he had made עָשָׂ֑ה (‘ā·śāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make and set up וַיָּ֕שֶׂם (way·yā·śem) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set in the house בְּבֵ֣ית (bə·ḇêṯ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house of God, הָאֱלֹהִ֗ים (hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm) Article | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative of which אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that God אֱלֹהִים֙ (’ĕ·lō·hîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative had said אָמַ֤ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> Near, with, among, to David דָּוִיד֙ (dā·wîḏ) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse and his son בְנ֔וֹ (ḇə·nōw) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1121.htm">Strong's 1121: </a> A son Solomon, שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה (šə·lō·mōh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8010.htm">Strong's 8010: </a> Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne “In this הַזֶּ֜ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2088.htm">Strong's 2088: </a> This, that temple בַּבַּ֨יִת (bab·ba·yiṯ) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> A house and in Jerusalem, וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם (ū·ḇî·rū·šā·lim) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel which אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that I have chosen בָּחַ֙רְתִּי֙ (bā·ḥar·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_970.htm">Strong's 970: </a> Selected, a youth out of all מִכֹּל֙ (mik·kōl) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every the tribes שִׁבְטֵ֣י (šiḇ·ṭê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7626.htm">Strong's 7626: </a> Rod, staff, club, scepter, tribe of Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc I will establish אָשִׂ֥ים (’ā·śîm) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> Put -- to put, place, set My Name שְׁמִ֖י (šə·mî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8034.htm">Strong's 8034: </a> A name forever. לְעֵילֽוֹם׃ (lə·‘ê·lō·wm) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5865.htm">Strong's 5865: </a> Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">2 Chronicles 33:7 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-7.htm">OT History: 2 Chronicles 33:7 He set the engraved image (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_chronicles/33-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Chronicles 33:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 33:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_chronicles/33-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Chronicles 33:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Chronicles 33:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>