2 Chronicles 33:4
Good News Translation
He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped forever.

New Revised Standard Version
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.”

Contemporary English Version
In the temple, where only the LORD was supposed to be worshiped, Manasseh built altars for the worship of pagan gods

New American Bible
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be forever;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

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2 Chronicles 33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord: the altars also which he had made in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and he cast them all out of the city.

2 Chronicles 34:3,4 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. . . .

2 Kings 21:4,5 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name. . . .

Jeremiah 7:30 Because the children of Juda have done evil in my eyes, saith the Lord. They have set their abominations in the house in which my name is called upon, to pollute it;

In Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 6:6 But I chose Jerusalem, that my name might be there: and I chose David to set him over my people Israel.

2 Chronicles 7:16 For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually.

2 Chronicles 32:19 And he spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth, the works of the hands of men.

Deuteronomy 12:11 In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you, holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the firstfruits of your hands: and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

1 Kings 8:29 That thy eyes may be open upon this house, night and day: upon the house of which thou hast said: My name shall be there: that thou mayst hearken to the prayer which thy servant prayeth, in this place to thee:

1 Kings 9:3 And the Lord said to him: I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, which thou hast made before me: I have sanctified this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and my eyes, and my heart, shall be there always.

Context
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
3And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them. 4He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.5And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house to my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom fore ever.

2 Chronicles 7:16
For I have chosen, and have sanctified this place, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart may remain there perpetually.

2 Chronicles 28:24
Then Achaz having taken away all the vessels of the house of God, and broken them, shut up the doors of the temple of God, and made himself altars in all the corners of Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:7
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.

2 Chronicles 34:11
But they gave it to the artificers, and to the masons, to buy stones out of the quarries, and timber for the couplings of the building, and to rafter the houses, which the kings of Juda had destroyed.

2 Chronicles 33:3
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