2Chronicles:33:1-20
geneva@2Chronicles:33:1 @ Manasseh was twelue yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned fiue and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem:
geneva@2Chronicles:33:2 @ And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde, like the abominations of the heathen, who the Lorde had cast out before the children of Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:3 @ For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had broken downe: and he set vp altars for Baalim, and made groues, and worshipped all the hoste of the heauen, and serued them.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:4 @ Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, whereof the Lorde had saide, In Ierusalem shall my Name be for euer.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:5 @ And he built altars for all the hoste of the heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lorde.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:6 @
geneva@2Chronicles:33:7 @ He put also the carued image, which he had made, in the house of God: whereof God had said to Dauid and to Salomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer,
geneva@2Chronicles:33:8 @ Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the (note:)By the charge given to Moses.(:note) hand of Moses.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:9 @ So Manasseh made Iudah and the inhabitants of Ierusalem to erre, and to doe worse then the heathen, whome the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:10 @ And the LORD spake (note:)Meaning by his prophets, but their hearts were not touched to believe and repent, without which the preaching of the word has no effect.(:note) to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:11 @ Wherefore the Lorde brought vpon them the captaines of the hoste of the King of Asshur, which tooke Manasseh and put him in fetters, & bound him in chaines, & caryed him to Babel.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:12 @ And when he was in tribulation, he prayed to the Lorde his God, and humbled him selfe greatly before the God of his fathers,
geneva@2Chronicles:33:13 @ And prayed unto him: and he was (note:)Thus affliction gives understanding: for he that hated God in his prosperity now in his misery seeks him.(:note) intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he [was] God.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:14 @ Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of (note:)Read (2Ch_32:30).(:note) Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Read (2Ch_27:3). Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:15 @ And he tooke away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, & all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lorde, and in Ierusalem, and cast them out of the citie.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:16 @ And he repaired the (note:)Which Solomon had caused to be made.(:note) altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:17 @ Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, [yet] unto the (note:)Thus by ignorance they were deceived, thinking it nothing to keep the altars, so that they worshipped God: but it is idolatry to worship God any other way than he has appointed.(:note) LORD their God only.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:18 @ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his (note:)Which although it is not contained in the Hebrew, yet because it is here mentioned and is written in the Greek, we have placed it in the end of this book.(:note) prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they [are written] in the book of the kings of Israel.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:19 @ And his prayer and how God was intreated of him, and all his sinne, and his trespasse, and the places wherein he built hie places, and set groues and images (before he was humbled) behold, they are written in the booke of the Seers.
geneva@2Chronicles:33:20 @ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own (note:)Because he had so horribly offended against the Lord, they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings, but in the garden of the king's house.(:note) house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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