Manasseh's Idolatry Denounced

2 Kings 21

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 1 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.)
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
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