2 Chronicles 33:5 Cross References - Thomson

⁵ he built altars for the whole host of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

⁹ He made also the court of the priests, and the great court, and the gates for the court. And their doors were overlaid with brass.

³⁴ but have set up their abominations in the house which is called by my name, and polluted it with their impurities; ³⁵ and have built up the altars to Baal which were in the valley of the son of Ennom to offer up their sons and their daughters to king Moloch; a thing which I never commanded them, nor did it ever come into my mind that they should commit such an abomination to cause Juda to transgress heinously.

⁷ Then he led me into the vestibule of the court, ⁸ and said to me, Son of man, dig. So I digged and lo! a door. ⁹ And he said to me, Go in and see the transgressions which they are committing here. ¹⁰ So I went in and beheld, and lo! vain abominations and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon them round about ¹¹ and seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and Jechonias the son of Saphan in the midst stood foremost, and every one had a censer in his hand, and the smoke of the incense ascended. ¹² And he said to me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing, every one of them in this hidden apartment of theirs? For they said, The Lord doth not see. The Lord hath forsaken this land. ¹³ Then he said to me thou shalt see still greater transgressions which they are committing. ¹⁴ Then he led me to the vestibule of the gate of the house of the Lord facing the north, and behold here were women seated, singing mournful ditties to Thammuz. ¹⁵ And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen? Thou shalt see still worse devices than these. ¹⁶ Then he led me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; and at the vestibule of the temple of the Lord, between the ailams and the altar, were about twenty men; their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces the direct contrary way; and they were worshipping the sun. ¹⁷ And he said to me, Hast thou seen? Son of man. Is it a light thing for the house of Juda to commit the transgressions, which they have committed here? Because they have filled the land with iniquity, and lo! they are as it were insulting me to my face.[Note: Here something seems to be wanting. I apprehend; it was the people sacrificing to idols on the house tops.] ¹⁸ therefore I will deal with them with wrath. Mine eye shall not spare, nor will I have compassion.