2 Kings 21:9
Good News Translation
But the people of Judah did not obey the LORD, and Manasseh led them to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced.

New Revised Standard Version
But they did not listen; Manasseh misled them to do more evil than the nations had done that the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
But the people of Judah disobeyed the LORD. They listened to Manasseh and did even more sinful things than the nations the LORD had wiped out.

New American Bible
But they did not listen. Manasseh misled them into doing even greater evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

they hearkened.

2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy.

Ezra 9:10,11 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, . . .

Nehemiah 9:26,29,30 But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies. . . .

Psalm 81:10 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

Daniel 9:6,10,11 We have not hearkened to thy servants, the prophets, that have spoken in thy name to our kings, to our princes, to our fathers, and to all the people of the land. . . .

Luke 13:34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

John 15:22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

James 4:17 To him therefore who knoweth to do good and doth it not, to him it is sin.

seduced.

1 Kings 14:16 And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk round about: according to thy highness, thou hast multiplied the children of men.

Proverbs 29:12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Hosea 5:11 Ephraim is under oppression, and broken in judgment: because he began to go after filthiness.

Revelation 2:20 But I have against thee a few things: because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants, to commit fornication and to eat of things sacrificed to idols.

more evil.

Ezekiel 16:47,51,52 But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways. . . .

Context
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
8And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them. 9But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
Cross References
2 Kings 21:10
And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:

Proverbs 29:12
A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Ezekiel 5:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because you have surpassed the Gentiles that are round about you, and have not walked in my commandments, and have not kept my judgments, and have not done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you:

Ezekiel 16:47
But neither hast thou walked in their ways, nor hast thou done a little less than they according to their wickednesses: thou hast done almost more wicked things than they in all thy ways.

2 Kings 21:8
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