2 KINGS 21:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“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:”
He set the carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD 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 — Manasseh erects an Asherah image within the temple itself. The divine pronouncement—'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen... I will put my name forever'—makes the Asherah image's presence a direct contradiction of the LORD's promise. The establishment of a fertility-goddess image in the place where the LORD promised perpetual presence represents the ultimate violation of the covenant and the temple's purpose. The contrast between divine promise and human violation becomes starkly absolute.
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