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1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 But he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all the abominations of the nations which the Lord overturned before the sons of Israel.
2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
3 And turning away, he repaired the high places, which had been demolished by his father, Hezekiah. And he constructed altars to the Baals, and made sacred groves. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
4 Also, he built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
5 But he built these for the entire army of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
6 And he caused his sons to pass through fire in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. He observed dreams, followed divinations, served the occult arts, had with him magicians and enchanters, and worked many evils before the Lord, so that he provoked him.
6 He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
7 Also, he set up a graven image and molten statue in the house of God, about which God said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever.
7 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God 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, I will put my name forever.
8 And I will not cause the foot of Israel to be moved from the land which I delivered to their fathers. Yet this is so, only if they will take care to do what I have instructed them, by the hand of Moses, with the entire law and the ceremonies and the judgments.”
8 I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
9 And so Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil, more so than all the nations which the Lord had overturned before the face of the sons of Israel.
9 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the Lord spoke to him and to his people, but they were not willing to pay attention.
10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they didn’t listen.
11 Therefore, he led over them the leaders of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they captured Manasseh, and they led him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.
11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12 And after this, being in great anguish, he prayed to the Lord his God. And he did penance greatly before the God of his fathers.
12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13 And he petitioned and begged him intently. And he heeded his prayer, and led him back to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. And Manasseh realized that the Lord himself was God.
13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
14 After these things, he built a wall outside the City of David, to the west of Gihon, at the steep valley, from the entrance to the fish gate, circling around as far as Ophel. And he raised it up greatly. And he appointed leaders of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.
14 Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol from the house of the Lord, and also the altars which he had made on the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem. And he cast all these things outside the city.
15 He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
16 Then he repaired the altar of the Lord, and he immolated upon it victims, and peace offerings, with praise. And he instructed Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
16 He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
17 Yet still the people were immolating on the high places, to the Lord their God.
17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
18 But the rest of the deeds of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and also the words of the seers who were speaking to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
19 Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.
19 His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
20 Then Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son, Amon, reigned in his place.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done. And he immolated to all the idols that Manasseh had fabricated, and he served them.
22 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
23 But he did not turn his face to the Lord, as his father Manasseh had turned himself. And he sinned much more grievously.
23 He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
24 And when his servants had conspired against him, they killed him in his own house.
24 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
25 But the rest of the multitude of the people, having slain those who had struck down Amon, appointed his son, Josiah, as king in his place.
25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
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People
Amon
A short-lived wicked king, assassinated by his own officials.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 21:19-26; 2 Chron. 33:21-25; Matt. 1:10
Manasseh
Judah's longest-reigning and most wicked king — who finally repented in exile.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 21:1-18; 2 Chron. 33:1-20; Matt. 1:10
Cross references (25)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 21:1–18; 1 Chronicles 3:13; Isaiah 3:4; 2 Chronicles 32:33; Matthew 1:10
- 2 2 Chronicles 28:3; Deuteronomy 18:9; 2 Kings 21:2; Deuteronomy 12:31; Ezekiel 11:12
- 3 Deuteronomy 16:21; Deuteronomy 17:3; 2 Chronicles 31:1; 2 Chronicles 30:14; 2 Kings 18:4
- 4 2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 6:6; 1 Kings 8:29; Deuteronomy 12:11; Jeremiah 7:30
- 5 2 Chronicles 4:9; Jeremiah 32:34–35; Ezekiel 8:7–18
- 6 Leviticus 20:6; Leviticus 19:26; 2 Kings 21:6; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 18:21
- 7 2 Chronicles 33:4; 2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 33:15; 1 Kings 11:13; 1 Kings 8:48
- 8 2 Samuel 7:10; Deuteronomy 8:1; Deuteronomy 4:40; 1 Chronicles 17:9; Ezekiel 33:25–26
- 9 2 Chronicles 33:2; 2 Kings 24:3–4; Proverbs 29:12; 2 Kings 21:9–11; Deuteronomy 2:21
- 10 2 Chronicles 36:15–16; Jeremiah 44:4–5; Zechariah 1:4; Nehemiah 9:29–30; Acts 7:51–52
- 11 Deuteronomy 28:36; 2 Chronicles 36:6; Isaiah 36:9; 1 Samuel 13:6; Nehemiah 9:32
- 12 Exodus 10:3; Psalm 50:15; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Luke 18:14–15; Acts 9:11
- 13 1 Chronicles 5:20; Matthew 7:7–8; Matthew 6:33; Daniel 4:25; Jeremiah 29:12–13
- 14 1 Kings 1:33; 2 Chronicles 27:3; Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 12:39; Zephaniah 1:10
- 15 2 Chronicles 33:3–7; Matthew 3:8; Hosea 14:1–3; 2 Kings 21:7; Isaiah 2:17–21
- 16 2 Chronicles 33:9; 2 Chronicles 30:12; Leviticus 3:1–17; 2 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 14:4
- 17 2 Chronicles 32:12; 2 Chronicles 15:17; 1 Kings 22:43; 2 Kings 15:4
- 18 2 Chronicles 33:19; 2 Chronicles 33:12–13; 2 Chronicles 20:34; Amos 7:12; Isaiah 30:10
- 19 1 John 1:9; Acts 9:11; Daniel 5:22; Romans 5:16; Jeremiah 44:10
- 20 Matthew 1:10; 2 Kings 21:18–25; 1 Chronicles 3:14; 2 Chronicles 32:33
- 21 James 4:13–15; Luke 12:19–20; 2 Kings 21:19–24; 2 Chronicles 33:1
- 22 2 Chronicles 34:3–4; 2 Chronicles 33:1–10; Ezekiel 20:18; Isaiah 44:13–20; 2 Kings 21:20
- 23 2 Chronicles 33:12; 2 Chronicles 33:19; 2 Timothy 3:13; Jeremiah 7:26; 2 Chronicles 33:1
- 24 Romans 11:22; 2 Samuel 4:5–12; 2 Chronicles 24:25–26; 2 Kings 21:23–26; 2 Chronicles 25:27–28
- 25 2 Chronicles 36:1; Numbers 35:31; 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Chronicles 26:1; Genesis 9:5–6
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Manasses also was utterly wicked, who sawed Isaiah asunder, and was defiled with all kinds of idolatries, and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; but having been led captive to Babylon he used his experience of misfortune for a healing course of repentance: for the Scripture saith that Manasses humbled himself before the Lord, and prayed, and the Lord heard …
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