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2 Chronicles 33 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah in Judah

(2Ki 21:1–9 )

2Ch 33:1

2Ch 33:1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

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 Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made [fn]Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven 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 33:5For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

2Ch 33:6

2Ch 33:6He 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 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 33:8and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses.”

2Ch 33:9

2Ch 33:9Thus Manasseh misled 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

2Ch 33:10The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

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 [fn]hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.

2Ch 33:12

2Ch 33:12When he was in distress, he entreated 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 his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

2Ch 33:14

2Ch 33:14Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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 thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

2Ch 33:17

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

2Ch 33:18

2Ch 33:18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel.

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 Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the [fn]Hozai.

2Ch 33:20

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

Amon Becomes King in Judah

(2Ki 21:19–26 )

2Ch 33:21

2Ch 33:21Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

2Ch 33:22

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

2Ch 33:23

2Ch 33:23Moreover, he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had [fn]done, but Amon multiplied 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 Josiah his son king in his place.
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NASB95 Footnotes
I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
I.e. thongs put through the nose
Gr reads seers
Literally: humbled himself
Literally: smote
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