And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
The building of altars for the host of heaven in both courts of the house of the Lord stands within the record of Manasseh's deliberate rejection of the statutes delivered through Moses. That course of apostasy was not an isolated act but part of a reign that turned away from divinely given law to idolatrous worship in the very temple precincts. By such neglect the temple copy of the law was lost from use, leaving the people without its instruction.
The building of altars for the host of heaven in both courts of the house of the Lord stands within the record of Manasseh's deliberate rejection of the statutes delivered through Moses. That course of apostasy was not an isolated act but part of a reign that turned away from divinely given law to idolatrous worship in the very temple precincts. By such neglect the temple copy of the law was lost from use, leaving the people without its instruction.