Discovery Box2 Chronicles 21:11 
Context21:11 He also built high places on the hills of Judah; he encouraged the residents of Jerusalem to be unfaithful to the Lord 1 and led Judah away from the Lord. 2
2 Chronicles 32:12
Context32:12 Hezekiah is the one who eliminated 3 the Lord’s 4 high places and altars and then told Judah and Jerusalem, “At one altar you must worship and offer sacrifices.”
2 Chronicles 33:3
Context33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 5 and worshiped 6 them.
1 tn Heb “and he caused the residents of Jerusalem to commit adultery.” In this context spiritual unfaithfulness to the
2 tn Heb “and drove Judah away.”
3 tn Heb “Did not he, Hezekiah, eliminate…?” This rhetorical question presupposes a positive reply (“yes, he did”) and so has been translated here as a positive statement.
4 tn Heb “his”; the referent (the
5 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
6 tn Or “served.”
