2 Kings 21:7

Which was either an image that had been placed in a grove planted by him, and now removed into the house or temple of the Lord; or, as some think, this was a representation of a grove, a carved grove of gold or silver, in the midst of which an image was placed in the temple; though what Selden observes F2 De Dis Syris, Syntagm. 2. c. 2. p. 233. , seems best of all, that this was an image of Asherah, as in the original text; that is, of Astarte or Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, 1 Kings 11:5 , the same the Phoenicians are said to call Astroarche, and affirm it to be the moon F3 Herodian. l. 5. c. 15. : in 2 Chronicles 33:7 it is called a carved image the idol he had made; and an Arabic writer F4 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. Dyn. 3. p. 66. says, it had four faces, which seems to be a figure of the cherubim; but, according to Suidas F5 In voce μανασσηςα . , it was the statue of Jupiter, who also says it had four faces:

of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son : that is, of which house or temple:

in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever ; see 1 Kings 8:29 ; see Gill on 2 Kings 21:3 .