2 Kings 21
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Judah’s King Manasseh
1Manasseh # 2Ch 33:1-9 was 12 years old when he became king and reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. # Is 62:4 2He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, # 2Kg 20:16; Jr 15:4 imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites. # 2Kg 16:3 3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed # 2Kg 18:4; 2Ch 31:1 and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, # 2Kg 23:26 as King Ahab of Israel had done; # 1Kg 16:32-33 he also worshiped the whole heavenly host # 2Kg 17:16; 23:5 and served them. 4He built altars in the Lord’s temple, # 2Kg 16:10-16 where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put My name.” # Dt 12:11,14; 1Kg 11:13 5He built altars to the whole heavenly host # 2Kg 23:4-5 in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple. # 1Kg 7:12; 2Kg 23:12 6He made his son pass through the fire, # Lv 18:21; 2Kg 16:3; 2Ch 28:3 practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. # Lv 19:26,31; Dt 18:10-12; 2Kg 23:24 He did a great amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him. # 2Kg 23:26
7Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. # Dt 12:5; 1Kg 11:32 8I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them — the whole law that My servant Moses commanded them.” # 2Sm 7:10; 1Kg 9:1-9 9But they did not listen; Manasseh caused them to stray so that they did greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites. # 1Kg 14:9
10The Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, 11“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these detestable things # 2Kg 21:2; 24:3-4 — greater evil than the Amorites # Gn 15:16; 1Kg 21:16 who preceded him had done — and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin, 12this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder. # 1Sm 3:11; Jr 19:3 13I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, # Is 34:11; Am 7:7-8 and I will wipe # 2Kg 23:27 Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl — wiping it and turning it upside down. 14I will abandon the remnant # 2Kg 19:4; Jr 6:9 of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, 15because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’ ” # Ex 32:22; Jr 25:7
16Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. # 2Kg 24:4 This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit. Consequently, they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
Manasseh’s Death
17The rest # 2Ch 33:18-20 of the events of Manasseh’s reign, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. # 2Kg 20:20 18Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.
Judah’s King Amon
19Amon was 22 years old when he became king # 2Ch 33:21-25 and reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah. 20He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight as his father Manasseh had done. # 2Kg 21:2-7,11,16 21He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he worshiped them. # 2Kg 16:2 22He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors # 1Kg 11:33 and did not walk in the way of the Lord. # 2Kg 22:17
23Amon’s servants conspired against the king and killed him in his own house. # 2Kg 12:20; 14:19 24Then the common people # Lit the people of the land executed # 2Kg 14:5 all those who had conspired against King Amon and made his son Josiah # 2Kg 22:1 king in his place.
25The rest of the events of Amon’s reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings. 26He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.
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2 Kings 21
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Manasseh
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. 2And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6And 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. 7And 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 tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: 8neither 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. 9But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying, 11Because Manasseh 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: 12therefore 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. 13And 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. 14And 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; 15because 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.
16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 17Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, 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? 18And Manasseh 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.
Amon
19Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did. 21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: 22and he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. 23And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. 24And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. 25Now 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? 26And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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