updv 2Kings:21:1-18 SEEK
Seeker Overlay ON
*
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign ;
and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem :
and his mother '
s name was Hephzibah .
*
And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh ,
after the disgusting behaviors of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the sons of Israel .
*
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed ;
and he reared up altars for Baal ,
and made an Asherah ,
as did Ahab king of Israel ,
and worshiped all the host of heaven ,
and served them .
*
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh ,
of which Yahweh said ,
In Jerusalem I will put my name .
*
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh .
*
And he made his son to pass through the fire ,
and interpreted omens ,
and used magic ,
and dealt with spiritists and with wizards :
he wrought much evil in the sight of Yahweh ,
to provoke him to anger .
*
And he set the graven image of Asherah ,
that he had made ,
in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son ,
In this house ,
and in Jerusalem ,
which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel ,
I will put my name forever ;
*
neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land which I gave their fathers ,
if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them ,
and according to all the law that my slave Moses commanded them .
*
But they didn '
t listen :
and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel .
*
And Yahweh spoke by his slaves the prophets ,
saying ,
*
Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these disgusting things ,
and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did ,
who were before him ,
and has made Judah also to sin with his idols ;
*
therefore this is what Yahweh ,
the God of Israel ,
says ,
Look ,
I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah ,
that whoever hears of it ,
both his ears will tingle .
*
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 wipes a dish ,
wiping it and turning it upside down .
*
And I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance ,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies ;
and they will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies ;
*
because they have done that which is evil in my sight ,
and have provoked me to anger ,
since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt ,
even to this day .
*
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood ,
until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another ;
besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin ,
in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh .
*
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 ?
*
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 .