2 Chronicles 33 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah in 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 for fifty-five^H2572 years^H8141 in Jerusalem^H3389.

2Ch 33:2

2Ch 33:2He did evil in the sight of the LORD according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

2Ch 33:3

2Ch 33:3For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had torn down; he also set up altars for the Baals and made [fn]Asherim, and he worshiped all the heavenly [fn]lights and served them.

2Ch 33:4

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

2Ch 33:5

2Ch 33:5He built altars for all the heavenly [fn]lights in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD.

2Ch 33:6

2Ch 33:6He also made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

2Ch 33:7

2Ch 33:7Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “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 33:8and I will not remove the foot of Israel again from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will take care to do everything that I have commanded them according to all the Law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses.”

2Ch 33:9

2Ch 33:9So Manasseh encouraged Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.

Manasseh’s Idolatry Rebuked

2Ch 33:10

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

2Ch 33:11

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

2Ch 33:12

2Ch 33:12When he was in distress, he appeased the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2Ch 33:13

2Ch 33:13When he prayed to Him, He was moved by him and heard his pleading, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD alone is God.

2Ch 33:14

Now after^H310 this^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, up 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 army^H2428 commanders^H8269 in all^H3605 the fortified^H1219 cities^H5892 in Judah^H3063.

2Ch 33:15

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

2Ch 33:16

2Ch 33:16He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

2Ch 33:17

2Ch 33:17However, the people still sacrificed on the high places, although only to the LORD their God.

(2Ki 21:17, 18 )

2Ch 33:18

Now the rest^H3499 of the acts^H1697 of Manasseh^H4519 and 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 the LORD^H3068 God^H430 of Israel^H3478, behold^H2009, they are among^H5921 the records^H1697 of the kings^H4428 of Israel^H3478.

2Ch 33:19

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

2Ch 33:20

2Ch 33:20So Manasseh [fn]lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon became king in his place.

Amon Becomes King in 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 for two^H8147 years^H8141 in Jerusalem^H3389.

2Ch 33:22

2Ch 33:22He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Manasseh had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

2Ch 33:23

2Ch 33:23Furthermore, he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had [fn]done, but Amon multiplied his guilt.

2Ch 33:24

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

2Ch 33:25

2Ch 33:25But the people of the land [fn]killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.

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NASB20 Footnotes

(33:3)

I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

(33:3)

Lit host

(33:5)

Lit host

(33:19)

I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

(33:19)

LXX seers

(33:20)

I.e., died

(33:23)

Lit humbled himself

(33:25)

Lit struck

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