2Kings:21

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bbe @2Kings:21:1 @Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king ; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem ; and his mother 's name was Hephzi-bah . bbe @2Kings:21:2 @He did evil in the eyes of the Lord , copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel . bbe @2Kings:21:3 @He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father ; he made altars for Baal , and an Asherah , as Ahab , king of Israel , had done ; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven . bbe @2Kings:21:4 @And he put up altars in the house of the Lord , of which the Lord had said , In Jerusalem will I put my name . bbe @2Kings:21:5 @And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord . bbe @2Kings:21:6 @And he made his son go through the fire , and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future ; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers ; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord , moving him to wrath . bbe @2Kings:21:7 @He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son , In this house , and in Jerusalem , the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel , I will put my name for ever . bbe @2Kings:21:8 @And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers ; if only they will take care to do all my orders , and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them . bbe @2Kings:21:9 @But they did not give ear ; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did , whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel . bbe @2Kings:21:10 @And the Lord said , by his servants the prophets , bbe @2Kings:21:11 @Because Manasseh , king of Judah , has done these disgusting things , doing more evil than all the Amorites before him , and making Judah do evil with his false gods , bbe @2Kings:21:12 @For this cause , says the Lord , the God of Israel , I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning . bbe @2Kings:21:13 @And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab ; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed , and turned over on its face . bbe @2Kings:21:14 @And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage , and give them up into the hands of their haters , who will take their property and their goods for themselves ; bbe @2Kings:21:15 @Because they have done evil in my eyes , moving me to wrath , from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day . bbe @2Kings:21:16 @More than this , Manasseh took the lives of upright men , till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood ; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord . bbe @2Kings:21:17 @Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh , and all he did , and his sins , are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah ? bbe @2Kings:21:18 @So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers , and was put into the earth in the garden of his house , in the garden of Uzza ; and Amon his son became king in his place . bbe @2Kings:21:19 @Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king , ruling in Jerusalem for two years ; his mother 's name was Meshullemeth , the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah . bbe @2Kings:21:20 @He did evil in the eyes of the Lord , as Manasseh his father had done . bbe @2Kings:21:21 @He went in all the ways of his father , being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant ; bbe @2Kings:21:22 @Turning away from the Lord , the God of his fathers , and not walking in his ways . bbe @2Kings:21:23 @And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him , and put the king to death in his house . bbe @2Kings:21:24 @But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king , and made Josiah his son king in his place . bbe @2Kings:21:25 @Now the rest of the acts which Amon did , are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah ? bbe @2Kings:21:26 @He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza , and Josiah his son became king in his place .

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