He even set a carved image of [a]Asherah that he had made, in the [b]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, (A)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
  2. 2 Kings 21:7 Temple

He took the carved Asherah pole(A) he had made and put it in the temple,(B) of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name(C) forever.

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14 Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that (A)he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be (B)his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.

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14 When Amaziah returned from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the people of Seir. He set them up as his own gods,(A) bowed down to them and burned sacrifices to them.

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