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2 Kings 21
Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah
2 Kings 21:1
Manasseh
was
twelve
years
old
when he began to reign
,
and reigned
fifty
and five
years
in Jerusalem
.
And his mother’s
name
was
Hephzi-bah
.
2 Kings 21:2
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
.
2 Kings 21:3
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.
2 Kings 21:4
And he built
altars
in the house
of the LORD
,
of which the LORD
said
,
In Jerusalem
will I put
my name
.
2 Kings 21:5
And he built
altars
for all the host
of heaven
in the two
courts
of the house
of the LORD
.
2 Kings 21:6
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
.
2 Kings 21:7
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
:
2 Kings 21:8
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.
2 Kings 21:9
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
.
The King’s Idolatries Rebuked
2 Kings 21:10
¶
And the LORD
spake
by
his servants
the prophets
,
saying
,
2 Kings 21:11
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
:
2 Kings 21:12
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
.
2 Kings 21:13
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
.
2 Kings 21:14
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
;
2 Kings 21:15
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
.
2 Kings 21:16
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
.
2 Kings 21:17
¶
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
?
2 Kings 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
reigned
in his stead.
Amon Succeeds Manasseh
2 Kings 21:19
¶
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
.
2 Kings 21:20
And he did
that which was
evil
in the sight
of the LORD
,
as his father
Manasseh
did
.
2 Kings 21:21
And he walked
in all the way
that his father
walked in
,
and served
the idols
that his father
served
,
and worshipped
them:
2 Kings 21:22
And he forsook
the LORD
God
of his fathers
,
and walked
not in the way
of the LORD
.
2 Kings 21:23
¶
And the servants
of Amon
conspired
against him, and slew
the king
in his own house
.
2 Kings 21:24
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.
2 Kings 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
?
2 Kings 21:26
And he was buried
in his sepulchre
in the garden
of Uzza
:
and Josiah
his son
reigned
in his stead.