2 Kings 21
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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.
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.
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.
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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.
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:
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.
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.
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
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:
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.
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.

I will stretch. This metaphor is taken from the custom of using a line in measuring land, and in dividing portions of it among several persons. Samaria was taken, pillaged, and ruined, and its inhabitants carried into captivity: Jerusalem shall have the same measure.

2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and …

Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant …

Isaiah 28:17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: …

Isaiah 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also …

Lamentations 2:8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: …

Ezekiel 23:31-34 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore will I give …

Amos 7:7,8 Thus he showed me: and, behold, the LORD stood on a wall made by …

Zechariah 1:16 Therefore thus said the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: …

the plummet.

2 Kings 10:11 So Jehu slew all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and …

1 Kings 21:21-24 Behold, I will bring evil on you, and will take away your posterity, …

I will wipe. I will empty Jerusalem of all its wealth and inhabitants, as truly as a dish turned up and wiped is emptied of its contents.

1 Kings 14:10 Therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and …

Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: …

Jeremiah 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, said …

Ezekiel 24:10,11 Heap on wood, kindle the fire, consume the flesh, and spice it well, …

Revelation 18:21-23 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast …

wiping it, and turning it upside down. Heb. he wipeth and turneth it upon the face thereof.

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;

And I will.

Deuteronomy 31:17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will …

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …

Psalm 37:28 For the LORD loves judgment, and forsakes not his saints; they are …

Psalm 89:38-45 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been wroth with your anointed…

Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my heritage; I have given the …

Jeremiah 23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, …

Lamentations 5:20 Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Amos 5:2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken …

the remnant.

2 Kings 19:4,30,31 It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, …

2 Kings 24:2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of …

2 Chronicles 36:16,17 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …

Jeremiah 23:33 And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, …

deliver.

Leviticus 26:17,36-38 And I will set my face against you, and you shall be slain before …

Deuteronomy 4:26,27 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…

Deuteronomy 28:25,31-33,48 The LORD shall cause you to be smitten before your enemies: you shall …

Judges 2:14,15 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered …

Nehemiah 9:27-37 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who …

Psalm 71:1-7 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion…

Psalm 106:40-43 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, so …

Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …

Lamentations 1:5,10 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD …

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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
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.
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?
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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