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Chapter 33 |
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty
and five years in Jerusalem: |
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| But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of
Israel. |
| 3 | For he built
again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared
up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven,
and served them. |
| 4 | Also
he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In
Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
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5 | And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts
of the house of the LORD. |
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And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the
son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used
witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much
evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. |
| 7 | And he set a carved image, the idol
which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before
all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: |
| 8 | Neither will I any more remove the foot
of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that
they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the
whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. |
| 9 | So Manasseh made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the
LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. |
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10 | And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his
people: but they would not hearken. |
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11 | Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of
the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with
fetters, and carried him to Babylon. |
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12 | And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and
humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, |
| 13 | And prayed unto him: and he was
intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to
Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. |
| 14 | Now after this he built a
wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even
to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it
up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of
Judah. |
| 15 | And he took
away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the
altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in
Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. |
| 16 | And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed
thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the
LORD God of Israel. |
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Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the
LORD their God only. |
| 18 |
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the
words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel,
behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. |
| 19 | His prayer also, and how God was
intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he
built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled:
behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers. |
| 20 | So Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his
stead. |
| 21 | Amon was two
and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in
Jerusalem. |
| 22 | But he did
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for
Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made,
and served them; |
| 23 | And
humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled
himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. |
| 24 | And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in
his own house. |
| 25 | But
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. |
