2 Kings 21:3

Old Testament • 18 words with Strong's data

"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, and served them."

Word-by-Word Analysis

For he

בָּנָה

bânâh

H1129

to build (literally and figuratively)

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up 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

שָׁמַד

shâmad

H8045

to desolate

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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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a

אֲשֵׁרָה

ʼăshêrâh

H842

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

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as did

אַחְאָב

ʼAchʼâb

H256

Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

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מֶלֶךְ

melek

H4428

a king

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of

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Yisrâʼêl

H3478

Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

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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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grove 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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Baal H1168

בַּעַל Baʻal

Baal, a Phoenician deity

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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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Ahab H256

אַחְאָב ʼAchʼâb

Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon

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Hezekiah H2396

חִזְקִיָּה Chizqîyâh

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

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destroyed H8045

שָׁמַד shâmad

to desolate

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built H1129

בָּנָה bânâh

to build (literally and figuratively)

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Cross References

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...

2 Kings 17:16 cross-reference

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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;

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 8:27 cross-reference

And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.

2 Kings 8:18 cross-reference

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

1 Kings 18:21 cross-reference

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

2 Kings 18:22 cross-reference

But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this alt...

2 Chronicles 34:3 cross-reference

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and...

Job 31:26 cross-reference

If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

Micah 6:16 cross-reference

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore ye sha...

1 Kings 18:26 cross-reference

And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered...

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