Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2Ki 21:1-181Ch 3:132Ch 32:33Ecc 10:16Isa 3:12Isa 3:4Mat 1:102Ch 34:1-2 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. 2Ch 28:3Deu 18:92Ch 36:142Ki 17:112Ki 17:152Ki 21:22Ki 21:9Deu 12:31 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. Deu 16:21Deu 17:32Ch 31:12Ch 30:142Ki 18:42Ki 23:5-6Ecc 9:18Jer 19:13 He built altars in the LORD’s house, of which the LORD said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.” 2Ch 7:161Ki 8:292Ch 6:6Deu 12:111Ki 9:32Ch 32:192Ch 33:152Ch 34:3-4 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD’s house. 2Ch 4:9Ezk 8:7-18Jer 32:34-35 He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the LORD’s sight, to provoke him to anger. 2Ch 28:32Ki 21:6Lev 18:21Lev 19:26Lev 19:31Lev 20:61Ch 10:13Isa 47:9-12 He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God 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. 2Ch 33:42Ch 7:161Ki 11:131Ki 11:321Ki 8:291Ki 8:441Ki 8:482Ch 33:15 I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.” 2Sa 7:101Ch 17:92Ch 7:17-22Deu 27:26Deu 30:15-20Deu 4:40Deu 5:1Deu 5:31 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. 2Ch 33:22Ki 24:3-4Pro 29:121Ki 14:161Ki 15:262Ki 17:8-112Ki 21:162Ki 21:9-11
The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they didn’t listen. 2Ch 36:15-16Act 7:51-52Jer 25:4-7Jer 44:4-5Neh 9:29-30Zec 1:4 Therefore the LORD brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. Deu 28:362Ch 36:61Sa 13:62Ki 23:332Ki 25:6Isa 10:8Isa 36:9Isa 5:26-30
When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. Exo 10:32Ch 32:26Psa 50:15Luk 18:14-151Pe 5:5-6Act 9:11Deu 4:30-31Hos 5:15 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. 1Ch 5:20Dan 4:25Ezr 8:23Jer 29:12-13Mat 6:33Mat 7:7-8Jer 24:7Dan 4:34-35
Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. 1Ki 1:332Ch 27:3Neh 3:3Neh 12:39Zep 1:101Ki 1:452Ch 11:11-122Ch 17:19 He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the LORD’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the LORD’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 2Ch 33:3-72Ki 21:7Ezk 18:20-22Hos 14:1-3Isa 2:17-21Mat 3:8 He built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. 1Ki 18:302Ch 14:42Ch 29:182Ch 30:122Ch 33:9Gen 18:19Lev 3:1-17Lev 7:11-18 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God. 2Ch 32:121Ki 22:432Ch 15:172Ki 15:4
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel. 2Ch 33:192Ch 33:12-132Ch 20:34Amo 7:12Isa 30:101Ki 14:191Ki 15:311Sa 9:9 His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. 1 1Jn 1:9Act 9:11Dan 5:22Jer 44:10Rom 5:162Ch 36:12Pro 15:8Psa 119:67 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place. Mat 1:101Ch 3:142Ch 32:332Ki 21:18-25
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 2Ch 33:12Ki 21:19-24Jas 4:13-15Luk 12:19-20 He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them. 2Ch 33:1-102Ch 34:3-42Ki 21:1-112Ki 21:20Ezk 20:18Isa 44:13-20 He didn’t humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. 2Ch 33:122Ch 33:192Ch 28:222Ch 33:12Ti 3:13Jer 7:26Jer 8:12 His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. 2Ch 24:25-262Ch 25:27-282Ki 21:23-262Sa 4:5-12Psa 55:23Rom 11:22 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. 2Ch 26:12Ch 34:12Ch 36:1Gen 9:5-6Num 35:31Num 35:33