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His mother’s name was Hephzibah. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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. <A name="5"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He sacrificed his own son in the fire,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>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.” <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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. <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Manasseh’s Idolatries Rebuked<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/33.htm#10">2 Chronicles 33:10–20</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“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, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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? <A name="19"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Amon Reigns in Judah<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_chronicles/33.htm#21">2 Chronicles 33:21–25</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD. <A name="24"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>made his son pass through the fire</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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