2 Chronicles 33

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

1 j Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to k the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places l that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made m Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, n "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever." 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in o the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 p And he burned his sons as an offering q in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and r used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with s mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And t the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God 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, n I will put my name forever, 8 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land u that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses." 9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

Manasseh's Repentance

10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. 11 v Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and w bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God x and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and y God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. z Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

14 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of a Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into b the Fish Gate, and carried it around c Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. 15 And d he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. 16 He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. 17 e Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and f his prayer to his God, and the words of g the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the h Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 19 And his prayer, and how y God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites i on which he built high places and set up the i Asherim and the images, before x he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers. 1 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

Amon's Reign and Death

21 j Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images k that Manasseh his father had made, and served them. 23 And he did not humble himself before the Lord, l as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more. 24 And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house. 25 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.

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:1 - 9
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
    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. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 28:3
    And he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 30:14
    They set to work and removed the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for burning incense they took away and threw into the Kidron Valley.
    2 Chronicles 31:1
    Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah and broke in pieces the pillars and cut down the Asherim and broke down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, and in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the people of Israel returned to their cities, every man to his possession.
    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.
    Deuteronomy 17:3
    And has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden.
  5. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 6:6
    But I have chosen Jerusalem that my name may be there, and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.
  6. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 4:9
    He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 28:3
    And he made offerings in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom and burned his sons as an offering, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
  8. Cross References
    Joshua 15:8
    Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite ( that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
  9. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 18:10
    There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer
  10. Cross References
    1 Samuel 28:3
    Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.
  11. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:15
    And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.
  12. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:4
    And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
  13. Cross References
    2 Samuel 7:10
    And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly.
  14. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 28:36
    The Lord will bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone.
  15. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:6
    Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.
    Judges 16:21
    And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
  16. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:26
    But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
  17. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 5:20
    And when they prevailed over them, the Hagrites and all who were with them were given into their hands, for they cried out to God in the battle, and he granted their urgent plea because they trusted in him.
    Ezra 8:23
    So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
  18. Cross References
    Daniel 4:25
    That you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
  19. Cross References
    1 Kings 1:33
    And the king said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.
  20. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:3
    The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars.
    Nehemiah 12:39
    And above the Gate of Ephraim, and by the Gate of Yeshanah, and by the Fish Gate and the Tower of Hananel and the Tower of the Hundred, to the Sheep Gate; and they came to a halt at the Gate of the Guard.
    Zephaniah 1:10
    On that day," declares the Lord, "a cry will be heard from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second Quarter, a loud crash from the hills.
  21. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 27:3
    He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord and did much building on the wall of Ophel.
  22. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:3
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and 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 33:7
    And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God 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.
  23. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 32:12
    Has not this same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, "Before one altar you shall worship, and on it you shall burn your sacrifices"?
  24. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:13
    He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
    2 Chronicles 33:19
    And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
  25. Cross References
    1 Samuel 9:9
    (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, "Come, let us go to the seer," for today's "prophet" was formerly called a seer.)
  26. Cross References
    2 Kings 21:17
    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?
  27. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:13
    He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
  28. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:3
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
  29. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:3
    For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
  30. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:12
    And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
  31. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:21 - 25
    Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
    2 Kings 21:19 - 24
    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.
  32. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:7
    And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God 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 34:3 - 4
    For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the carved and the metal images.
  33. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 33:12
    And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
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