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.