2KI-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] Hephzibah.

2KI-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.

2KI-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.

2KI-21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which

the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2KI-21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the

two courts of the house of the LORD.

2KI-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.

2KI-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:

]2KI-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.

2KI-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.

2KI-21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,

saying,

2KI-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:

2KI-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.

2KI-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.

2KI-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;

2KI-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.

2KI-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.

2KI-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?

2KI-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.

2KI-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.

2KI-21:20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the

LORD, as his father Manasseh did.

2KI-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:

2KI-21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked

not in the way of the LORD.

2KI-21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and

slew the king in his own house.

2KI-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.

2KI-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?

2KI-21:26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of

Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

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