Manasseh Reigns in Judah

2 Chronicles 33

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.

  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.
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