Manasseh Reigns in Judah

2 Kings 21

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.

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!