cSee Deut. 16:21
hSee Deut. 16:21
Genesis 1:16
16And God amade the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.2 Kings 21:3
3For he rebuilt the high places bthat Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made can Asherah, das Ahab king of Israel had done, eand worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.2 Kings 23:4-5
4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests fof the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for gBaal, for hAsherah, and for all the host of heaven. iHe burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations jand all the host of the heavens.2 Kings 23:11
11And 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. Psalms 136:7
7to him who lmade the great lights,for his steadfast love endures forever;
Jeremiah 43:13
13He shall break the mobelisks of Heliopolis, which is in the land of Egypt, nand the temples of the gods of Egypt he shall burn with fire.’”Ezekiel 8:16
16And he brought me into othe inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, pbetween the qporch and rthe altar, were about twenty-five men, swith their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping tthe sun toward the east.
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