2 CHRONICLES 33
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem,
2 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.
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 He also made his Children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made in the house of God, 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, will I put my name for ever:
8 neither will I 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 and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
9 And Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, so that they did evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they gave no heed.
11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12 And when he was in distress, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13 And he prayed unto him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
14 Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate; and he compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fenced cities of Judah.
15 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.
16 And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, but only unto the LORD their God.
18 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, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
19 His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
21 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
23 And he humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
25 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.
Cross-references
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- 12Ki 21:1–18, 1Ch 3:13, Ecc 10:16, Isa 3:4, 2Ch 32:33, Isa 3:12, Mat 1:10, 2Ch 34:1–2
- 22Ch 28:3, Deu 18:9, Ezk 11:12, Ezr 9:14, 2Ki 21:2, Deu 12:31, Lev 18:24–30, 2Ki 17:15
- 3Deu 16:21, Deu 17:3, 2Ch 31:1, 2Ch 30:14, Ecc 9:18, 2Ki 23:5–6, Zep 1:5, 2Ki 18:4
- 42Ch 7:16, Deu 12:11, 1Ki 8:29, 2Ch 6:6, Jer 7:30, 2Ch 33:15, 1Ki 9:3, 2Ch 32:19
- 52Ch 4:9, Ezk 8:7–18, Jer 32:34–35
- 62Ch 28:3, Lev 18:21, Lev 19:31, Lev 20:6, Lev 19:26, 2Ki 21:6, 1Ch 10:13, Isa 47:9–12
- 72Ch 33:4, 2Ch 7:16, 2Ch 33:15, Psa 78:68, 1Ki 11:13, 1Ki 8:44, 1Ki 8:48, Psa 132:13–14
- 82Sa 7:10, Deu 4:40, Deu 30:15–20, 1Ch 17:9, Isa 1:19–20, Deu 8:1, 2Ch 7:17–22, Luk 1:6
- 9Pro 29:12, 2Ch 33:2, 2Ki 24:3–4, 2Ki 17:8–11, 2Ki 21:9–11, Ezk 16:45–47, 2Ki 23:26, Mic 6:16
- 10Jer 25:4–7, Act 7:51–52, Neh 9:29–30, Zec 1:4, Jer 44:4–5, 2Ch 36:15–16
- 11Deu 28:36, 2Ch 36:6, Neh 9:32, Psa 107:10–14, Isa 5:26–30, Isa 7:18–20, 2Ki 25:6, Isa 10:8
- 12Exo 10:3, 2Ch 32:26, Psa 50:15, Luk 18:14–15, 1Pe 5:5–6, Jas 4:10, Act 9:11, Hos 5:15
- 131Ch 5:20, Ezr 8:23, Jer 29:12–13, Dan 4:25, Mat 6:33, Mat 7:7–8, Jer 24:7, Isa 55:6–9
- 14Neh 3:3, 2Ch 27:3, 1Ki 1:33, Neh 12:39, Zep 1:10, 2Ch 32:5, 2Ch 17:19, Neh 3:26–27
- 152Ch 33:3–7, Mat 3:8, 2Ki 21:7, Ezk 18:20–22, Hos 14:1–3, Isa 2:17–21
- 162Ch 29:18, 2Ch 14:4, 1Ki 18:30, 2Ch 30:12, Gen 18:19, 2Ch 33:9, Luk 22:32, Lev 3:1–17
- 172Ch 32:12, 2Ki 15:4, 2Ch 15:17, 1Ki 22:43
- 182Ch 33:19, 2Ch 33:12–13, 2Ch 20:34, Amo 7:12, Isa 30:10, 2Ch 32:32, 2Ki 17:13, 1Ki 15:31
- 19Act 9:11, 1Jn 1:9, Dan 5:22, Jer 44:10, Rom 5:16, Pro 15:8, 2Ch 36:12, Psa 119:67
- 20Mat 1:10, 2Ch 32:33, 1Ch 3:14, 2Ki 21:18–25
- 21Luk 12:19–20, 2Ch 33:1, 2Ki 21:19–24, Jas 4:13–15
- 222Ki 21:20, Isa 44:13–20, 2Ch 34:3–4, Ezk 20:18, 2Ch 33:1–10, 2Ki 21:1–11
- 232Ch 33:12, 2Ch 33:19, 2Ti 3:13, Jer 8:12, 2Ch 28:22, 2Ch 33:1, Jer 7:26
- 24Psa 55:23, 2Ki 21:23–26, 2Ch 25:27–28, 2Ch 24:25–26, Rom 11:22, 2Sa 4:5–12
- 25Num 35:33, Gen 9:5–6, 2Ch 26:1, 2Ch 34:1, Num 35:31, 2Ch 36:1
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Altar, Amon, Baal, Babylon, Church, Church and State, Fetters, Fish Gate, Gihon, God, Hezekiah, High Places, Hinnom, Iconoclasm, Idolatry, Impenitence, Influence, Israel, Prophecies Concerning, Jerusalem, Josiah, Judgments, Liberality, Manasseh, Ophel, Prayer, Prophets, Repentance, Revivals, Rulers, Sorcery, Temple, War, Word of God