II Kings 21:5
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In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
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The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.
Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
Its portico faced the outer court, and its side pillars were decorated with palm trees on each side. Eight steps led up to it.
Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me into the inner court, and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
Next he brought me into the inner court through the south gate, and he measured the south gate; it had the same measurements as the others.