Manasseh's building of altars for the host of heaven in both courts of the house of the Lord emphasizes the thoroughness of the contamination. The specification of both courts indicates that no part of the temple remained unaffected by the pagan installation. The doubling of the reference emphasizes the comprehensive nature of the transformation and the totality of the temple's desecration. The explicit location in both courts of the temple indicates that pagan worship was not hidden or marginalized but openly established and systematized. The building of altars represents the institutionalization of pagan worship within the sacred center.

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