2Ki 21:4, 7, 23:11-12, Eze 7:20, 8:5-16 | ESV | STEP | And he built altars in the house of the Lord , of which the Lord had said , In Jerusalem will I put my name .

7 And the carved image of ^cAsherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^dand in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

2 Kings 23:11-12

11 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain} And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars ^fon the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars ^gthat Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces ^{▼▼Hebrew pieces from there} and cast the dust of them ⁱinto the brook Kidron.

Ezekiel 7:20

20 ^jHis beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^kthey made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^lI make it an unclean thing to them.

Ezekiel 8:5-16

5 Then he said to me, ^m“Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of ⁿthe altar gate, in the entrance, was this ^oimage of jealousy. 6 And he said to me, “Son of man, ^pdo you see what they are doing, ^qthe great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, ^rto drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”

7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, ^sdig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. 9 And he said to me, “Go in, and see ^tthe vile abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I went in and saw. And there, ^uengraved on the wall all around, was ^vevery form of ^wcreeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 And before them stood ^xseventy men of ^ythe elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of ^zShaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and ^aathe smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing ^abin the dark, each ^acin his room of pictures? For they say, ^ad‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’” 13 He said also to me, ^ae“You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”

14 Then he brought me to ^afthe entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O ^agson of man? ^ahYou will see still greater abominations than these.”

16 And he brought me into ^aithe inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ^ajbetween the ^akporch and ^althe altar, were about twenty-five men, ^amwith their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ^anthe sun toward the east.