2 Chronicles 33 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Manasseh Reigns over Judah

(2Ki 21:1–9 )

Manasseh^H4519 was twelve^H8147^H6240 years^H8141 old^H1121 when he became^H4427 king^H4427, and he reigned^H4427 fifty-five^H2572 years^H8141 in Jerusalem^H3389.

2Ch 33:2

2Ch 33:2And 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.

2Ch 33:3

2Ch 33:3Indeed, he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had torn down; and he erected altars for the Baals and made [fn]Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

2Ch 33:4

2Ch 33:4And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem My name shall be forever.”

2Ch 33:5

2Ch 33:5Indeed, he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

2Ch 33:6

2Ch 33:6He even made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced soothsaying, interpreted omens, practiced sorcery, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much that was evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger.

2Ch 33:7

2Ch 33:7Then he put the graven image of the [fn]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 from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

2Ch 33:8

2Ch 33:8“And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have set up for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the judgments given by the hand of Moses.”

2Ch 33:9

2Ch 33:9Thus Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.

Manasseh Removes Foreign Idols

2Ch 33:10

Then Yahweh^H3068 spoke^H1696 to Manasseh^H4519 and his people^H5971, but they paid^H7181 no^H3808 attention^H7181.

2Ch 33:11

2Ch 33:11Therefore Yahweh brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with [fn]hooks, bound him with bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.

2Ch 33:12

2Ch 33:12And when he was in distress, he entreated Yahweh his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2Ch 33:13

2Ch 33:13Then he prayed to Him, and He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and returned him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

2Ch 33:14

Afterwards^H310^H3651, he built^H1129 the outer^H2435 wall^H2346 of the city^H5892 of David^H1732 on the west^H4628 side^H4628 of Gihon^H1521, in the valley^H5158, even to the entrance^H935 of the Fish^H1709 Gate^H8179; and he encircled^H5437 the Ophel^H6077 with it and made^H1361 it very^H3966 high^H1361. Then he put^H7760 military^H2428 commanders^H8269 in all^H3605 the fortified^H1219 cities^H5892 of Judah^H3063.

2Ch 33:15

2Ch 33:15He also removed the foreign gods and the [fn]idol from the house of Yahweh, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

2Ch 33:16

2Ch 33:16And he set up the altar of Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he said for Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

2Ch 33:17

2Ch 33:17Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to Yahweh their God.

(2Ki 21:17, 18 )

2Ch 33:18

Now the rest^H3499 of the acts^H1697 of Manasseh^H4519, even his prayer^H8605 to his God^H430, and the words^H1697 of the seers^H2374 who spoke^H1696 to him in the name^H8034 of Yahweh^H3068, the God^H430 of Israel^H3478, behold^H2009, they are among^H5921 the chronicles^H1697 of the kings^H4428 of Israel^H3478.

2Ch 33:19

2Ch 33:19His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the [fn]Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the [fn]Hozai.

2Ch 33:20

2Ch 33:20And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his place.

Amon Reigns over Judah

(2Ki 21:19–26 )

2Ch 33:21

Amon^H526 was twenty-two^H6242^H8147 years^H8141 old^H1121 when he became^H4427 king^H4427, and he reigned^H4427 two^H8147 years^H8141 in Jerusalem^H3389.

2Ch 33:22

2Ch 33:22And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

2Ch 33:23

2Ch 33:23Moreover, he did not humble himself before Yahweh as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but Amon multiplied guilt.

2Ch 33:24

2Ch 33:24Then his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.

2Ch 33:25

2Ch 33:25Then 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.