2 Kings 21
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1 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.
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 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.
4 And he built altars in the house of the
LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5 And he built altars for all the host of
heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6 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.
7 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:
8 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.
9 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.
10 And the LORD spake by his
servants the prophets, saying,
11 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:
12 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.
13 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.
14 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;
15 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.
16 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.
17 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?
18 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.
19 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.
20 And he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his
father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped
them:
22 And he forsook the LORD God of his
fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired
against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 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.
25 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?
26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in
the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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