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2 Kings 21:1
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began
to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name
was Hephzibah. |
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2 Kings 21:2 |
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And 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. |
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2 Kings 21:3 |
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For 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. |
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2 Kings 21:4 |
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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. |
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2 Kings 21:5 |
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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 Kings 21:6 |
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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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2 Kings 21:7 |
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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 tribes of
Israel, will I put my name for ever: |
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2 Kings 21:8 |
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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. |
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2 Kings 21:9 |
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But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced
them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children
of Israel. |
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2 Kings 21:10 |
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And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying, |
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2 Kings 21:11 |
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Because 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: |
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2 Kings 21:12 |
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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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2 Kings 21:13 |
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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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2 Kings 21:14 |
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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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2 Kings 21:15 |
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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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2 Kings 21:16 |
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Moreover 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. |
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2 Kings 21:17 |
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Now 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? |
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2 Kings 21:18 |
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And 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. |
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2 Kings 21:19 |
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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 Meshullemeth,
the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. |
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2 Kings 21:20 |
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And he did that which was evil in the sight
of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did. |
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2 Kings 21:21 |
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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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2 Kings 21:22 |
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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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2 Kings 21:23 |
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And the servants of Amon conspired against him,
and slew the king in his own house. |
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2 Kings 21:24 |
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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 Josiah his son
king in his stead. |
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2 Kings 21:25 |
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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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2 Kings 21:26 |
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And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden
of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. |
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