2 Kings 21
The Reign of
Manasseh |
| 2 Chr. 33.1-20 |
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Manas'seh was twelve years old
when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in
Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Heph'zibah.
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And he did that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, Jer. 15.4 after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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For he built up again the high places
which Hezeki'ah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars
for Ba'al, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
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And he built altars in the house of the
LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 2 Sam. 7.13
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And he built altars for all the host of
heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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And he made his son pass through the
fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with
familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the
sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger.
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And he set a graven image of the grove
that he had made in the house, of which the LORD 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, will I put my name for ever:
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neither will I make the feet of Israel
move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if
they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 1
Kgs. 9.3-5 · 2 Chr. 7.12-18
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But they hearkened not: and Manas'seh
seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of
Israel.
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And the LORD spake
by his servants the prophets, saying,
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Because Manas'seh king of Judah hath done
these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the
Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also
to sin with his idols:
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therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of
it, both his ears shall tingle.
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And I will stretch over Jerusalem the
line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will
wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and
turning it upside down.
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And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and
they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
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because they have done that which
was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the
day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this
day.
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Moreover Manas'seh shed innocent blood
very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another;
besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that
which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Now the rest of the acts of Manas'seh,
and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not
written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
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And Manas'seh slept with his fathers, and
was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza:
and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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The Reign of
Amon |
| 2 Chr. 33.21-25 |
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Amon was twenty and two years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Meshul'lemeth, the daughter of
Haruz of Jotbah.
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And he did that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, as his father Manas'seh
did.
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And he walked in all the way that his
father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and
worshipped them:
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and he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of
the LORD.
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And the servants of Amon conspired
against him, and slew the king in his own house.
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And the people of the land slew all them
that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land
made Josi'ah his son king in his stead.
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Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he
did, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of
the kings of Judah?
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And he was buried in his sepulchre in the
garden of Uzza: and Josi'ah his son reigned in his
stead.
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