He built altars in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, about which the <sc>Lordsc> had said, &#8220;Jerusalem will be my home.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="poetry">Although Ephraim has built many altars for sin offerings,p> <p class="poetry">these have become altars for sinning!p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Build me seven altars here, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Balak brought Balaam<n id="1" /> to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah,<n id="2" /> where<n id="3" /> he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

Then Balaam said to Balak, &#8220;Build seven altars here for me, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams.&#8221;

He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky<n id="1" /> and worshiped<n id="2" /> them.