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He rebuilt the shrines that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made a sacred pole,[a] just as Israel’s King Ahab had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshipped them. He even built altars in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple—the very place the Lord was speaking of when he said: “I will put my name in Jerusalem.” Manasseh built altars for all the stars in the sky in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.

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  1. 2 Kings 21:3 Heb asherah, perhaps a pole devoted to the goddess Asherah

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