Second
Kings
Chapter 21
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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.
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.
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.
21:4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem
will I put my name.
21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the
LORD.
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.
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:
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.
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.
21:10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
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:
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.
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.
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;
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
21:20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
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:
21:22 And he forsook the LORD God of his
fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
21:23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
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.
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?
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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