2Kings:21:1-18
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Twelve years old was Menasseh when he became king ,
and fifty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem .
And his mother
s name was Chephzi
bah .
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And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord ,
after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel .
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And he built up again the high
places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed ;
and he reared up altars for Ba
al ,
and made a grove ,
as Achab the king of Israel had done ;
and he bowed down to all the host of heaven ,
and served them .
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And he built altars in the house of the Lord ,
of which the Lord had said ,
In Jerusalem will I put my name .
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord .
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And he caused his son to pass through the fire ,
and observed times ,
and used enchantments ,
and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards :
he wrought much that is evil in the eyes of the Lord ,
to provoke him to anger .
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And he set a hewn image of the Asherah that 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 ,
which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel ,
will I put my name for ever :
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And I will not cause any more the foot of Israel to move out of the land which I gave their fathers ;
only if they will observe to act in accordance with all that I have commanded them ,
and in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded them .
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But they hearkened not :
and Menasseh seduced them to do what is evil more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel .
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And the Lord spoke by means of his servants the prophets ,
saying ,
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Forasmuch as Menasseh the king of Judah hath done these abominations ,
having done wickedly more than all that the Emorites had done ,
who were before him ,
and hath induced Judah also to sin with his idols :
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Therefore thus hath said the Lord the God of Israel ,
Behold ,
I will bring evil upon Jerusalem and Judah ,
at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle .
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And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measure
line of Samaria ,
and the plummet of the house of Achab :
and I will wipe off Jerusalem as one wipeth off a dish ,
wiping it ,
and turning it on its face .
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And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance ,
and give them up into the hand of their enemies ;
and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies ;
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Forasmuch as they have done what is evil in my eyes ,
and have been provoking me to anger ,
from the day that their fathers came forth out of Egypt ,
even until this day .
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And also innocent blood did Menasseh shed in very great abundance ,
till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another ;
beside his sin wherewith he induced Judah to sin ,
to do what is evil in the eyes of the Lord .
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Now the rest of the acts of Menasseh ,
and all that he did ,
and his sin that he committed ,
behold ,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah .
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And Menasseh slept with his fathers ,
and was buried in the garden of his own house ,
in the garden of
Uzza :
and Amon his son became king in his stead .
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