Manasseh Reigns in Judah
(2 Chronicles 33:1–9)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. Isa 62:41Ch 3:132Ch 32:332Ki 20:21Mat 1:10Pro 5:19 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. 2Ch 33:2-42Ch 36:142Ki 16:2-42Ki 21:162Ki 21:72Ki 22:17Deu 12:31Ezk 16:51 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven. 2Ki 17:162Ki 18:41Ki 16:31-33Deu 17:3Deu 4:191Ki 18:211Ki 18:262Ch 32:12
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.” 1Ki 8:292Sa 7:13Jer 32:341Ki 9:32Ki 16:10-16Deu 12:5Exo 20:24Psa 132:13-14 In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven. 1Ki 7:121Ki 6:362Ki 23:122Ki 23:42Ch 33:152Ch 33:52Ki 23:6Ezk 40:28 He sacrificed his own son in the fire, 1 practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 2Ki 17:17Lev 18:21Lev 19:312Ki 16:3Lev 19:262Ch 33:6Deu 18:10-141Ch 10:13
Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever. 2Ch 7:161Ki 8:291Ki 9:32Ch 7:122Sa 7:132Ch 33:152Ch 33:72Ch 7:20 I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.” 2Sa 7:101Ch 17:92Ch 33:82Ki 18:11-12Deu 28:1-14Deu 5:28-29Ezk 22:2-16Ezk 33:25-29
But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites. Pro 29:121Ki 14:162Ch 33:92Ch 36:16Dan 9:10-11Dan 9:6Ezk 16:51-52Hos 5:11
Manasseh’s Idolatries Rebuked
(2 Chronicles 33:10–20)
And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, 2Ch 33:102Ch 36:15Mat 23:34-37Neh 9:26Neh 9:30 “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin, 1Ki 21:262Ki 24:3-42Ki 21:9Jer 15:41Ki 14:161Ki 15:301Ki 16:192Ki 21:16 this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it. Jer 19:31Sa 3:112Ki 22:16Amo 3:2Dan 9:12Mic 3:12Isa 28:16Luk 23:28-29
I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down. Amo 7:7-8Lam 2:8Isa 34:112Ki 10:11Ezk 23:31-34Isa 10:22Isa 28:17Jer 25:9 So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, Jer 23:332Ki 19:4Psa 89:38-452Ch 15:22Ch 36:16-172Ki 19:30-312Ki 24:2Amo 5:2 because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’” Dan 9:5-11Deu 31:27Deu 31:29Deu 9:21Ezk 16:15-22Ezk 20:13Ezk 20:21Ezk 20:30
Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD. 2Ch 33:92Ki 21:11Num 35:331Ki 14:15-162Ki 21:72Ki 24:3-4Deu 21:8-9Exo 32:21
As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 2Ch 33:1-202Ki 20:20-21
And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place. 2Ch 33:202Ki 21:262Ch 21:202Ch 24:162Ch 24:252Ch 28:272Ch 32:33Jer 22:19
Amon Reigns in Judah
(2 Chronicles 33:21–25)
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah. 2Ch 33:21-231Ch 3:141Ki 15:251Ki 16:81Ki 22:512Ki 15:23Mat 1:10 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. 2Ch 33:22-232Ki 21:112Ki 21:2-7Act 7:51Mat 23:32Num 32:14 He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served. He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. 1Ki 11:332Ki 22:171Ch 28:9Deu 32:15Jer 2:13Jon 2:8
Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. 2Ki 12:202Ch 33:24-252Ki 14:191Ki 15:271Ki 16:92Ki 15:252Ki 15:30 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place. 2Ki 14:51Ki 12:11Ki 12:201Sa 11:152Ch 22:12Ch 26:12Ch 33:252Ki 11:17
As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 2Ki 20:202Ki 21:17 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place. 2Ki 21:18Mat 1:101Ki 13:5