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and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the nations, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD said: ‘In Jerusalem will I put My name.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised soothsaying, and used enchantments, and appointed them that divined by a ghost or a familiar spirit: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And he set the graven image of Asherah, 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 the tribes of Israel, will I put My name for ever; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; if only 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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But they hearkened not; and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>therefore thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I will cast off 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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>because they have done that which is evil in My sight, and have provoked Me, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/2_kings/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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