Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 21:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
5. the two courts of the house of the Lord ] On the two courts of the temple, spoken of respectively as ‘the inner’ or ‘higher’ court, or ‘the court of the priests, and ‘the great court’ which must have enclosed the inner, see note on 1Ki 6:36.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The one of the priests, the other of the people, 1Ki 6:36.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
5. the two courts of the house ofthe Lordthe court of the priests, and the large court of thepeople.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And he built altars for all the host of heaven,…. Sun, moon, and stars:
in the two courts of the house of the Lord; in the court of the priests, and in the court of the people; and all this must be supposed to be done, not as soon as he began to reign, but when he was grown up to man’s estate, and had children, as the next verse shows; unless it can be thought that those nobles in Judah, who liked not the reformation made by Hezekiah, took the advantage of his youth, and advised him to these idolatries.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(5) In the two courts.Even in the inner and more sacred court, where the sacrifices were offered to Jehovah.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
2Ki 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
Ver. 5. In the two courts of the house of the Lord. ] Both in the priests’ court, and in the people’s also, poured he forth his whoredoms: as being acted and agitated by a spirit of fornication, an impetus to idolatry. He was worse than his contemporary Numa, king of Romans, who filled the people’s heads with all sorts of superstitions, and so increased the number of the gods, that he left no room for himself to be placed amongst them, as Augustine saith wittily. a
a De Civ. Dei, lib. xviii, cap. 24.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
two courts. See note on 1Ki 7:12.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
in the two courts: 2Ki 23:4, 2Ki 23:6, 1Ki 6:36, 1Ki 7:12, 2Ch 33:5, 2Ch 33:15, Eze 40:28, Eze 40:32, Eze 40:37, Eze 40:47, Eze 42:3, Eze 43:5, Eze 44:19
Reciprocal: 2Ki 23:12 – which Manasseh 2Ch 33:4 – he built Jer 8:2 – and all Jer 11:13 – up altars Jer 19:4 – estranged Eze 8:7 – General 2Co 6:16 – what