2 Chronicles 33
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Manasseh a was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
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But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the b abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had c broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and d made wooden images; and he worshiped e all the host of heaven and served them.
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He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, f "In Jerusalem shall My name be forever."
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven g in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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h Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced i soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and j consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
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k He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, l "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
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m "and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers - only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses."
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So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.
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n Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, o bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
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Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and p humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
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and prayed to Him; and He q received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh r knew that the LORD was God.
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After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of s Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it t enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
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He took away u the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city.
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He also repaired the altar of the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings and v thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
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w Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of x the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
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Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai.
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y So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.
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z Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them.
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And he did not humble himself before the LORD, a as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
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b Then his servants conspired against him, and c killed him in his own house.
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But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
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2 Kings 21:1 - 9
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
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Deuteronomy 18:9 - 12
When you come into the land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations.
2 Chronicles 28:3
He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
Jeremiah 15:4
I will hand them over to trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
2 Chronicles 30:14
They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the incense altars and cast them into the Brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke the sacred pillars in pieces, cut down the wooden images, and threw down the high places and the altars - from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh - until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned to their own cities, every man to his possession.
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Deuteronomy 16:21
You shall not plant for yourself any tree, as a wooden image, near the altar which you build for yourself to the LORD your God.
2 Kings 23:5
Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
2 Kings 23:6
And he brought out the wooden image from the house of the LORD, to the Brook Kidron outside Jerusalem, burned it at the Brook Kidron and ground it to ashes, and threw its ashes on the graves of the common people.
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Deuteronomy 17:3
Who has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, either the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded.
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Deuteronomy 12:11
Then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD.
1 Kings 8:29
That Your eyes may be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, 'My name shall be there,' that You may hear the prayer which Your servant makes toward this place.
1 Kings 9:3
And the LORD said to him: "I have heard your prayer and your supplication that you have made before Me; I have consecrated this house which you have built to put My name there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
2 Chronicles 6:6
'Yet I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.'
2 Chronicles 7:16
For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
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2 Chronicles 4:9
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze.
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Leviticus 18:21
And you shall not let any of your descendants p...
Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found among you anyone who m...
2 Kings 23:10
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the Valley ...
2 Chronicles 28:3
He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of H...
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is ...
Ezekiel 23:39
For after they had slain their children for the...
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Deuteronomy 18:11
Or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
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Leviticus 19:31
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:27
'A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.'"
2 Kings 21:6
Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
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2 Kings 21:7
He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
2 Chronicles 25:14
Now it was so, after Amaziah came from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the people of Seir, set them up to be his gods, and bowed down before them and burned incense to them.
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Psalms 132:14
This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it.
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2 Samuel 7:10
Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously.
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Deuteronomy 28:36
The LORD will bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods - wood and stone.
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2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in bronze fetters to carry him off to Babylon.
Job 36:8
And if they are bound in fetters, Held in the cords of affliction.
Psalms 107:10
Those who sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Bound in affliction and irons -
Psalms 107:11
Because they rebelled against the words of God, And despised the counsel of the Most High.
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2 Chronicles 7:14
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 32:26
Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
1 Peter 5:6
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.
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1 Chronicles 5:20
And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them, for they cried out to God in the battle. He heeded their prayer, because they put their trust in Him.
Ezra 8:23
So we fasted and entreated our God for this, and He answered our prayer.
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1 Kings 20:13
Suddenly a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel, saying, "Thus says the LORD: 'Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the LORD.'
Psalms 9:16
The LORD is known by the judgment He executes; The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah
Daniel 4:25
They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses.
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1 Kings 1:33
The king also said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gihon.
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2 Chronicles 27:3
He built the Upper Gate of the house of the LORD, and he built extensively on the wall of Ophel.
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2 Chronicles 33:3
For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and made wooden images; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
2 Chronicles 33:5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 7:1
When Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the LORD filled the temple.
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Leviticus 7:12
If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer, with the sacrifice of thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, unleavened wafers anointed with oil, or cakes of blended flour mixed with oil.
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2 Chronicles 32:12
Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, "You shall worship before one altar and burn incense on it"?
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1 Samuel 9:9
(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he spoke thus: "Come, let us go to the seer"; for he who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)
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1 Kings 1:21
"Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king rests with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be counted as offenders."
2 Kings 21:18
So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.
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2 Kings 21:19 - 24
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
1 Chronicles 3:14
Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
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2 Chronicles 33:12
Now when he was in affliction, he implored the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
2 Chronicles 33:19
Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai.
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2 Kings 21:23
Then the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.
2 Kings 21:24
But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
2 Chronicles 24:25
And when they had withdrawn from him (for they left him severely wounded), his own servants conspired against him because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed. So he died. And they buried him in the City of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
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2 Chronicles 25:27
After the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD, they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there.
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