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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>2 Kings 21 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/2_kings/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > 2 Kings 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/20.htm" title="2 Kings 20">◄</a> 2 Kings 21 <a href="../2_kings/22.htm" title="2 Kings 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch12021" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn12021" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Reign of Manasseh.</span> <span id="v12021001" class="ver">1</span>Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.</p> <p><span id="v12021002" class="ver">2</span>He did what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had dispossessed before the Israelites. <span id="v12021003" class="ver">3</span>He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He set up altars to Baal and also made an asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.<a id="ren12021003-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12021003-a">a</a> <span id="v12021004" class="ver">4</span>He built altars in the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, of which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had said: In Jerusalem I will set my name. <span id="v12021005" class="ver">5</span>And he built altars for the whole host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v12021006" class="ver">6</span>He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits.</p> <p>He did much evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight and provoked him to anger.<a id="ren12021006-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12021006-b">b</a> <span id="v12021007" class="ver">7</span>The Asherah idol he had made, he placed in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s house, of which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.<a id="ren12021007-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12021007-c">c</a> <span id="v12021008" class="ver">8</span>I will no longer make Israel step out of the land I gave their ancestors, provided that they are careful to observe all I have commanded them and the entire law which Moses my servant enjoined upon them. <span id="v12021009" class="ver">9</span>But they did not listen.</p> <p>Manasseh misled them into doing even greater evil than the nations the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites. <span id="v12021010" class="ver">10</span>Then the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoke through his servants the prophets: <span id="v12021011" class="ver">11</span>“Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has practiced these abominations, and has done greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him, and has led Judah into sin by his idols,<a id="ren12021011-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12021011-d">d</a> <span id="v12021012" class="ver">12</span>therefore, thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: I am about to bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that, when any hear of it, their ears shall ring: <span id="v12021013" class="ver">13</span>I will measure Jerusalem with the same cord as I did Samaria, and with the plummet I used for the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a dish, wiping it inside and out.<a id="ren12021013-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en12021013-e">e</a> <span id="v12021014" class="ver">14</span>I will cast off the survivors of my inheritance. I will deliver them into enemy hands, to become prey and booty for all their enemies, <span id="v12021015" class="ver">15</span>because they have done what is evil in my sight and provoked me from the day their ancestors came forth from Egypt until this very day.” <span id="v12021016" class="ver">16</span>Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that it filled the length and breadth of Jerusalem, in addition to the sin he caused Judah to commit by doing what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight.</p> <p><span id="v12021017" class="ver">17</span>The rest of the acts of Manasseh, with all that he did and the sin he committed, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. <span id="v12021018" class="ver">18</span>Manasseh rested with his ancestors; he was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza, and his son Amon succeeded him as king.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Reign of Amon.</span> <span id="v12021019" class="ver">19</span>Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth, daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.</p> <p><span id="v12021020" class="ver">20</span>He did what was evil in the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s sight, as his father Manasseh had done. <span id="v12021021" class="ver">21</span>He walked in all the ways of his father; he served the idols his father had served, and bowed down to them. <span id="v12021022" class="ver">22</span>He abandoned the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p><span id="v12021023" class="ver">23</span>Officials of Amon plotted against him and killed the king in his palace, <span id="v12021024" class="ver">24</span>but the people of the land<a id="rfn12021024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn12021024-1">*</a> then slew all who had plotted against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his stead. <span id="v12021025" class="ver">25</span>The rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are recorded in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah. <span id="v12021026" class="ver">26</span>He was buried in his own grave in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah succeeded him as king.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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