2 Kings 21

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

1 x Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, y according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places z that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made a an Asherah, b as Ahab king of Israel had done, c and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 d And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, e "In Jerusalem will I put my name." 5 And he built altars c for all the host of heaven in f the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 g And he burned his son as an offering 1 and h used fortune-telling and i omens and dealt j with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And the carved image of a Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, e and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. 8 k And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them." 9 But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

Manasseh's Idolatry Denounced

10 And the Lord said by his servants the prophets, 11 l "Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things m more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, n and has made Judah also to sin o with his idols, 12 therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster 2 that the ears of everyone who hears of it p will tingle. 13 q And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, 15 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day."

16 r Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin s that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

17 t Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and 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? 18 u And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, v in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

Amon Reigns in Judah

19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, w as Manasseh his father had done. 21 He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served x the idols that his father served and worshiped them. 22 y He abandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord. 23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house. 24 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 26 And he was buried in his tomb z in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:1 - 9
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
    2 Chronicles 33:1 - 9
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:3
    But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
  3. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:4
    He removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 16:21
    You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
  5. Cross References
    1 Kings 16:32 - 33
    He erected an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he built in Samaria.
  6. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:16
    And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal.
    2 Kings 23:5
    And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations and all the host of the heavens.
    Deuteronomy 4:19
    And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
  7. Cross References
    Jeremiah 7:30
    For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
    Jeremiah 32:34
    They set up their abominations in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
  8. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:7
    And the carved image of Asherah that he had mad...
    2 Kings 23:27
    And the Lord said, "I will remove Judah also ou...
    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 night and day toward...
    1 Kings 9:3
    And the Lord said to him, "I have heard your pr...
    Deuteronomy 12:11
    Then to the place that the Lord your God will c...
  9. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:3
    For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
  10. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:12
    And the altars on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
    1 Kings 6:36
    He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and one course of cedar beams.
    1 Kings 7:12
    The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and the vestibule of the house.
  11. Cross References
    Leviticus 18:21
    You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
  12. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:26
    You shall not eat any flesh with the blood in it. You shall not interpret omens or tell fortunes.
  13. Cross References
    2 Kings 17:17
    And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
  14. Cross References
    2 Kings 23:24
    Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
    Leviticus 19:31
    Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
  15. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:3
    For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
  16. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:4
    And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name.
  17. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:19
    And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God!
  18. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:2
    And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
    2 Kings 23:26
    Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.
    2 Kings 24:3 - 4
    Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done.
    Jeremiah 15:4
    And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 21:26
    He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the Lord cast out before the people of Israel.)
  20. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:16
    Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
  21. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:21
    He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.
  22. Cross References
    1 Samuel 3:11
    Then the Lord said to Samuel, "Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.
    Jeremiah 19:3
    You shall 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 am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
  23. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:11
    But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
    Isaiah 28:17
    And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter.
    Lamentations 2:8
    The Lord determined to lay in ruins the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring line; he did not restrain his hand from destroying; he caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.
    Amos 7:7 - 8
    This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.
  24. Cross References
    2 Kings 24:4
    And also for the innocent blood that he had shed. For he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not pardon.
  25. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
  26. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:11 - 19
    Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
  27. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:18 - 24
    And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
    2 Chronicles 33:20 - 25
    So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
  28. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:26
    And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.
  29. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:2 - 6
    And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
    2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
  30. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols.
  31. Cross References
    2 Kings 22:17
    Because they have forsaken me and have made offerings to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.
    1 Kings 11:33
    Because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
  32. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:18
    And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
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