2 Chronicles 33:3

Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data

"For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them."

Word-by-Word Analysis

For he

בָּנָה

bânâh

H1129

to build (literally and figuratively)

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again the

עֶלְיוֹן

ʻelyôwn

H5945

an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme

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בָּמָה

bâmâh

H1116

an elevation

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which

חִזְקִיָּה

Chizqîyâh

H2396

Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites

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his

אָב

ʼâb

H1

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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had

שָׁבַר

shâbar

H7665

to burst (literally or figuratively)

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down and he

נָצַב

nâtsab

H5324

to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)

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up

מִזְבֵּחַ

mizbêach

H4196

an altar

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for

בַּעַל

Baʻal

H1168

Baal, a Phoenician deity

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and

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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אֲשֵׁרָה

ʼăshêrâh

H842

Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same

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and

שָׁחָה

shâchâh

H7812

to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)

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all the

צָבָא

tsâbâʼ

H6635

a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specif...

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of

שָׁמַיִם

shâmayim

H8064

the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r...

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and

עָבַד

ʻâbad

H5647

to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.

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them

Key Terms in This Verse

reared H5324

נָצַב nâtsab

to station, in various applications (literally or figuratively)

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Baalim H1168

בַּעַל Baʻal

Baal, a Phoenician deity

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groves H842

אֲשֵׁרָה ʼăshêrâh

Asherah (or Astarte) a Phoenician goddess; also an image of the same

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altars H4196

מִזְבֵּחַ mizbêach

an altar

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worshipped H7812

שָׁחָה shâchâh

to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)

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served H5647

עָבַד ʻâbad

to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.

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Hezekiah H2396

חִזְקִיָּה Chizqîyâh

Chizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites

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built H1129

בָּנָה bânâh

to build (literally and figuratively)

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broken H7665

שָׁבַר shâbar

to burst (literally or figuratively)

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host H6635

צָבָא tsâbâʼ

a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized forwar (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:21 cross-reference

Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Deuteronomy 17:3 cross-reference

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

2 Chronicles 31:1 cross-reference

Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out...

2 Chronicles 30:14 cross-reference

And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

Zephaniah 1:5 cross-reference

And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;

Jeremiah 19:13 cross-reference

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of hea...

Ecclesiastes 9:18 cross-reference

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

2 Kings 18:4 cross-reference

He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it...

Deuteronomy 4:19 cross-reference

And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD...

2 Chronicles 32:12 cross-reference

Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?

2 Kings 23:11 cross-reference

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and bur...

Ecclesiastes 2:19 cross-reference

And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Jeremiah 8:2 cross-reference

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and wh...

1 Kings 14:23 cross-reference

For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.

2 Kings 21:3 cross-reference

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, an...

Acts 7:42 cross-reference

Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of f...

Jeremiah 17:2 cross-reference

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

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