2 Kings 21
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Manasseh a 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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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, b according to the 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 c which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, d as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he e worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
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f He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, g "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the h two courts of the house of the LORD.
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i Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced j 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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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, k "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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l "and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers - only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them."
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But they paid no attention, and Manasseh m seduced them 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 n by His servants the prophets, saying,
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o "Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ( p he has acted more wickedly than all the q Amorites who were before him, and r has also made Judah sin with his idols),
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"therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both s his ears will tingle.
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'And I will stretch over Jerusalem t the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; u I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
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'So I will forsake the v remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies,
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'because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.' "
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w Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Now x the rest of the acts of y Manasseh - all that he did, and the sin that he committed - are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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So z 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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a 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.
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, b as his father Manasseh had done.
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So he walked in all the ways that his father had walked; and he served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.
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He c forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
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d Then the servants of Amon e conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.
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But the people of the land f 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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Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then Josiah his son reigned in his place.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1 - 9
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
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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 Kings 18:22
"But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem'?"'
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1 Kings 16:31 - 33
And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
Deuteronomy 17:2 - 5
If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant.
2 Kings 17:16
So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
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.
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Jeremiah 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight," says the LORD. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.
Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
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1 Kings 11:13
"However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
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1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
1 Kings 7:12
The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the temple.
2 Kings 23:12
The altars that were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.
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Leviticus 18:21
And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20:2
Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: 'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
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 19:26
You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.
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.
Deuteronomy 18:10 - 14
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer.
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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2 Samuel 7:13
He shall build a house for My name, and I will ...
1 Kings 8:29
That Your eyes may be open toward this temple n...
1 Kings 9:3
And the LORD said to him: "I have heard your pr...
2 Kings 23:27
And the LORD said, "I will also remove Judah fr...
2 Chronicles 7:12
Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and...
2 Chronicles 7:16
For now I have chosen and sanctified this house...
Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house wh...
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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.
2 Kings 18:11
Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:12
Because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do them.
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Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.
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2 Kings 17:13
Yet the LORD testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets, every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets.
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2 Kings 23:26
Nevertheless the LORD did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.
2 Kings 23:27
And the LORD said, "I will also remove Judah from My sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, 'My name shall be there.
2 Kings 24:3
Surely at the commandment of the LORD this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.
2 Kings 24:4
And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
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1 Kings 21:26
And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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Genesis 15:16
"But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
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2 Kings 21:9
But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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1 Samuel 3:11
Then the LORD said to Samuel: "Behold, I will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
Jeremiah 19:3
And say, 'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Behold, I will bring such a catastrophe on this place, that whoever hears of it, his ears will tingle.
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Lamentations 2:8
The LORD has purposed to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament; They languished together.
Amos 7:7
Thus He showed me: Behold, the Lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line, with a plumb line in His hand.
Amos 7:8
And the LORD said to me, "Amos, what do you see?" And I said, "A plumb line." Then the Lord said: "Behold, I am setting a plumb line In the midst of My people Israel; I will not pass by them anymore.
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2 Kings 22:16 - 19
Thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants - all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read -
2 Kings 25:4 - 11
Then the city wall was broken through, and all the men of war fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the king's garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And the king went by way of the plain.
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Jeremiah 6:9
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "They shall thoroughly glean as a vine the remnant of Israel; As a grape-gatherer, put your hand back into the branches.
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2 Kings 24:4
And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.
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2 Chronicles 33:11 - 19
Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
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2 Kings 20:21
So Hezekiah rested with his fathers. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
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2 Chronicles 33:20
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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2 Chronicles 33:21 - 23
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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2 Kings 21:2 - 6
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ( he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols).
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Judges 2:12
And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
Judges 2:13
They forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
1 Kings 11:33
Because they have forsaken Me, and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.
1 Chronicles 28:9
As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
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1 Chronicles 3:14
Amon his son, and Josiah his son.
2 Chronicles 33:24
Then his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house.
2 Chronicles 33:25
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.
Matthew 1:10
Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.
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2 Kings 12:20
And his servants arose and formed a conspiracy, and killed Joash in the house of the Millo, which goes down to Silla.
2 Kings 14:19
And they formed 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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2 Kings 14:5
Now it happened, as soon as the kingdom was established in his hand, that he executed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
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