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| 2 Chronicles 33:1 |
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:2 |
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But did that which was evil in the sight of
the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out
before the children of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:3 |
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For he built again the high places which Hezekiah
his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves,
and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:4 |
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Also he built altars in the house of the LORD,
whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:5 |
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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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| 2 Chronicles 33:6 |
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And he caused his children to pass through the
fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments,
and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought
much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:7 |
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And he set a carved image, the idol which he
had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his
son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes
of Israel, will I put my name for ever: |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:8 |
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Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel
from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will
take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and
the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:9 |
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So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed
before the children of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:10 |
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And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people:
but they would not hearken. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:11 |
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Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains
of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and
bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:12 |
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And when he was in affliction, he besought the
LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:13 |
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And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of
him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:14 |
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Now after this he built a wall without the city
of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at
the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height,
and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:15 |
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And he took away the strange gods, and the idol
out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount
of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:16 |
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And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed
thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the
LORD God of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:17 |
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Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still
in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:18 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his
prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name
of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:19 |
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His prayer also, and how God was intreated of
him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high
places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they
are written among the sayings of the seers. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:20 |
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So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:21 |
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Amon was two and twenty years old when he began
to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:22 |
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But he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved
images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them; |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:23 |
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And humbled not himself before the LORD, as
Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:24 |
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And his servants conspired against him, and
slew him in his own house. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:25 |
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But 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. |
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