2 Chronicles 33
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

he built again [heb] he returned and built

Ecclesiastes 2:19 And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall …

Ecclesiastes 9:18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroys much good.

which Hezekiah

2 Chronicles 30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and …

2 Chronicles 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went …

2 Chronicles 32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, …

2 Kings 18:4 He removed the high places, and broke the images, and cut down the …

2 Kings 21:3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had …

he reared

2 Chronicles 28:2-4 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten …

Judges 2:11-13 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and …

made groves

Deuteronomy 16:21 You shall not plant you a grove of any trees near to the altar of …

1 Kings 14:23 For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on …

Jeremiah 17:2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the …

the host

Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, …

Deuteronomy 17:3 And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the …

2 Kings 23:5,6,11 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had …

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all …

Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, …

Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven on the housetops; and them …

Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; …

Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

caused

2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and …

Leviticus 18:21 And you shall not let any of your seed pass through the fire to Molech, …

Leviticus 20:2 Again, you shall say to the children of Israel, Whoever he be of …

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God: for every abomination to …

Deuteronomy 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …

2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom…

Jeremiah 7:31,32 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley …

Ezekiel 23:37,39 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and …

he observed

Leviticus 19:26 You shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall you use …

Leviticus 20:6 And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and …

Deuteronomy 18:10-14 There shall not be found among you any one that makes his son or …

1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …

2 Kings 17:17 And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the …

Isaiah 47:9-12 But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the …

Galatians 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, jealousies, wrath, strife, …

dealt

2 Kings 21:6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and …

2 Kings 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and …

1 Chronicles 10:13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the …

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say to you, Seek to them that have familiar spirits, …

Isaiah 19:3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the middle thereof; and I will …

And he set a carved image, 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 before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

he was entreated

1 Chronicles 5:20 And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered …

Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and sought our God for this: and he was entreated of us.

Job 22:23,27 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put …

Job 33:16-30 Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction…

Psalm 32:3-5 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long…

Psalm 86:5 For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy …

Isaiah 55:6-9 Seek you the LORD while he may be found, call you on him while he is near…

Jeremiah 29:12,13 Then shall you call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I …

Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …

Luke 23:42,43 And he said to Jesus, Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom…

John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and …

brought him

Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing …

Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be …

Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: …

Matthew 6:33 But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and …

knew

Deuteronomy 29:6 You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: …

Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is …

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, …

Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and …

Daniel 4:25,34,35 That they shall drive you from men, and your dwelling shall be with …

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know you the only true …

Hebrews 8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his …

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

his prayer also

2 Chronicles 33:11,12,19 Why the LORD brought on them the captains of the host of the king …

Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …

Acts 9:11 And the Lord said to him, Arise, and go into the street which is …

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our …

all his sins

2 Chronicles 33:1-10 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …

Romans 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment …

before he

2 Chronicles 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

2 Chronicles 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled …

2 Chronicles 36:12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God…

Psalm 119:67,71,75 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept your word…

Jeremiah 44:10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, …

Daniel 5:22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though …

the seers. or, Hosai So the Targum and Vulgate: the Syraic has {Hanum the Prophet}; and the Arabic, Saphan the prophet. This record is totally lost, for the captivity and repentance are related no where else; and the prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha was probably composed long afterwards: it is not acknowledged as canonical even by the Romish church, though it was anciently used as a form of confession, and as such still received by the Greek church.

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

as did Manasseh

2 Chronicles 33:1-10 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned …

2 Kings 21:1-11,20 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned …

for Amon sacrificed Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh, in sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent, but they forget how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view Manasseh was defective, although it cannot be supposed that it affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images, he did not utterly deface and destroy them, according to the law in

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, …

Isaiah 44:13 The carpenter stretches out his rule; he marks it out with a line; …

And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
But 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.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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