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2 Kings 21 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Manasseh Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 33:1–20 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:1 -

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:2 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:3 - Indeed, he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an [fn]Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:4 - And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5 - Indeed, he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - He even made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and interpreted omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much that was evil in the sight of Yahweh provoking Him to anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - Then he put the graven image of Asherah, which he had made, in the house of which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:8 - “And I will not make the foot of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.

Yahweh Brings Calamity on Israel

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:10 -

Then Yahweh spoke by the hand of His slaves the prophets, saying,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations—he has done evil more than all the Amorites did who were before him—and has also made Judah sin with his idols,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:12 - therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:13 - ‘And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the level of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—he wipes it and turns it upside down.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:14 - ‘And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:15 - because they have done what is evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:16 -

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah sin, in doing what is evil in the sight of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:17 - Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:18 - 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 became king in his place.

Amon Reigns over Judah

(2Ch 33:21–25 )
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:19 -

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:20 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - And he walked in all the way that his father had walked and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:22 - So he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:23 - Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his own house.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:24 - Then the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:25 - 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?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:26 - And he was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.
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