2 Chronicles 33
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
2 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.
3 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.
4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 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.
7 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:
8 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.
9 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.
10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
11 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.
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
13 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.
14 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.
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 repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only.
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 God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
19 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.
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 two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22 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;
23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him 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