Manasseh Reigns in Judah
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Manasseh a was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, b according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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For he rebuilt the high places c which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, d as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he e worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
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f He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, g "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the h two courts of the house of the LORD.
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i Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced j soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
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He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, k "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
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l "and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers - only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them."
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But they paid no attention, and Manasseh m seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:1 - 9
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
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Cross References
2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
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Cross References
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan.
2 Kings 18:22
"But if you say to me, 'We trust in the LORD our God,' is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem'?"'
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Cross References
1 Kings 16:31 - 33
And it came to pass, as though it had been a trivial thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians; and he went and served Baal and worshiped him.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which the LORD your God has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
Deuteronomy 17:2 - 5
If there is found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD your God gives you, a man or a woman who has been wicked in the sight of the LORD your God, in transgressing His covenant.
2 Kings 17:16
So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image and two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
2 Kings 23:5
Then he removed the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem, and those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 7:30
For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight," says the LORD. "They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to pollute it.
Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
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Cross References
1 Kings 11:13
"However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
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Cross References
1 Kings 6:36
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
1 Kings 7:12
The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the temple.
2 Kings 23:12
The altars that were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, the king broke down and pulverized there, and threw their dust into the Brook Kidron.
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Cross References
Leviticus 18:21
And you shall not let any of your descendants pass through the fire to Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 20:2
Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: 'Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
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Cross References
Leviticus 19:26
You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying.
Leviticus 19:31
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.
Deuteronomy 18:10 - 14
There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer.
2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
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Cross References
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 toward this temple n...
1 Kings 9:3
And the LORD said to him: "I have heard your pr...
2 Kings 23:27
And the LORD said, "I will also remove Judah fr...
2 Chronicles 7:12
Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and...
2 Chronicles 7:16
For now I have chosen and sanctified this house...
Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house wh...
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Cross References
2 Samuel 7:10
Moreover I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more; nor shall the sons of wickedness oppress them anymore, as previously.
2 Kings 18:11
Then the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 18:12
Because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded; and they would neither hear nor do them.
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Cross References
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler pays attention to lies, All his servants become wicked.
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