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Manasseh
Succeeds Hezekiah in Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:1 |
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he became
king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:2 |
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He did evil in the sight of the LORD according
to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons
of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:3 |
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For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah
his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim,
and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:4 |
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He built altars in the house of the LORD of
which the LORD had said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:5 |
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For 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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He made his sons pass through the fire in the
valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced
sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of
the LORD, provoking Him to anger. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:7 |
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Then he put the carved image of 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 from all the tribes
of Israel, I will put My name forever; |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:8 |
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and I will not again remove the foot of Israel
from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe
to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and
the ordinances given through Moses." |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:9 |
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Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants
of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the
sons of Israel. |
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Manasseh's
Idolatry Rebuked |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:10 |
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The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but
they paid no attention. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:11 |
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Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of
the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with
hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:12 |
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When he was in distress, he entreated 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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When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his
entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his
kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:14 |
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Now after this he built the outer wall of the
city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of
the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then
he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:15 |
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He also removed the foreign gods and the idol
from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the
mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside
the city. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:16 |
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He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed
peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD
God of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:17 |
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Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in
the high places, although only to the LORD their God. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:18 |
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his
prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of
the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:19 |
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His prayer also and how God was entreated by
him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high
places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself,
behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai. |
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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 became king in his place. |
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Amon
Becomes King in Judah |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:21 |
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Amon was twenty-two years old when he became
king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:22 |
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He did evil in the sight of the LORD as Manasseh
his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father
Manasseh had made, and he served them. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:23 |
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Moreover, he did not humble himself before the
LORD as his father Manasseh had done, but Amon multiplied guilt. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:24 |
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Finally his servants conspired against him and
put him to death in his own house. |
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| 2 Chronicles 33:25 |
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But the people of the land killed all the conspirators
against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his
place. |
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