19 And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see ^athe sun and the moon and the stars, ^ball the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

3 and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or ^mthe sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, ⁿwhich I have forbidden,

5 And 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 ^gand all the host of the heavens.

11 And 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.¹ And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

16 And he brought me into ^mthe inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ⁿbetween the ^oporch and ^pthe altar, were about twenty-five men, ^qwith their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ^rthe sun toward the east.