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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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"><title>2 Kings 21 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../topmenuchap/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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">King Manasseh of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 33:1-20">2 Chronicles 33.1-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.1" class="v12_21_1">1</span>Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-five years. His mother was Hephzibah. </span><span class="v12_21_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.2" class="v12_21_2">2</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.21.2!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Following the disgusting practices of the nations whom the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had driven out of the land as his people advanced, Manasseh sinned against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v12_21_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.3" class="v12_21_3">3</span>He rebuilt the pagan places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he built altars for the worship of Baal and made an image of the goddess Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh also worshiped the stars. </span><span class="v12_21_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.4" class="v12_21_4">4</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.21.4!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said was where he should be worshiped. </span><span class="v12_21_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.5" class="v12_21_5">5</span>In the two courtyards of the Temple he built altars for the worship of the stars. </span><span class="v12_21_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.6" class="v12_21_6">6</span>He sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He practiced divination and magic and consulted<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.21.6!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the <span class="nd">Lord</span> and stirred up his anger. </span><span class="v12_21_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.7" class="v12_21_7">7</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.21.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> He placed the symbol of the goddess Asherah in the Temple, the place about which the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said to David and his son Solomon: “Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped. </span><span class="v12_21_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.8" class="v12_21_8">8</span>And if the people of Israel will obey all my commands and keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them, then I will not allow them to be driven out of the land that I gave to their ancestors.” </span><span class="v12_21_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.9" class="v12_21_9">9</span>But the people of Judah did not obey the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, and Manasseh led them to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had driven out of the land as his people advanced.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.10" class="v12_21_10">10</span>Through his servants the prophets the <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, </span><span class="v12_21_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.11" class="v12_21_11">11</span>“King Manasseh has done these disgusting things, things far worse than what the Canaanites did; and with his idols he has led the people of Judah into sin. </span><span class="v12_21_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.12" class="v12_21_12">12</span>So I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> God of Israel, will bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will be stunned. </span><span class="v12_21_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.13" class="v12_21_13">13</span>I will punish Jerusalem as I did Samaria, as I did King Ahab of Israel and his descendants. I will wipe Jerusalem clean of its people, as clean as a plate that has been wiped and turned upside down. </span><span class="v12_21_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.14" class="v12_21_14">14</span>I will abandon the people who survive, and will hand them over to their enemies, who will conquer them and plunder their land. </span><span class="v12_21_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.15" class="v12_21_15">15</span>I will do this to my people because they have sinned against me and have stirred up my anger from the time their ancestors came out of Egypt to this day.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.16" class="v12_21_16">16</span>Manasseh killed so many innocent people that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with blood; he did this in addition to leading the people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to sin against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.17" class="v12_21_17">17</span>Everything else that Manasseh did, including the sins he committed, is recorded in <span class="bk">The History of the Kings of Judah</span>. </span><span class="v12_21_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.18" class="v12_21_18">18</span>Manasseh died and was buried in the palace garden, the garden of Uzza, and his son Amon succeeded him as king.</span></p><h3 class="s">King Amon of Judah</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="2CH 33:21-25">2 Chronicles 33.21-25</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.19" class="v12_21_19">19</span>Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years. His mother was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz from the town of Jotbah. </span><span class="v12_21_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.20" class="v12_21_20">20</span>Like his father Manasseh, he sinned against the <span class="nd">Lord</span>; </span><span class="v12_21_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.21" class="v12_21_21">21</span>he imitated his father's actions, and he worshiped the idols that his father had worshiped. </span><span class="v12_21_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.22" class="v12_21_22">22</span>He rejected the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of his ancestors, and disobeyed the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s commands.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.23" class="v12_21_23">23</span>Amon's officials plotted against him and assassinated him in the palace. </span><span class="v12_21_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.24" class="v12_21_24">24</span>The people of Judah killed Amon's assassins and made his son Josiah king.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_21_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.25" class="v12_21_25">25</span>Everything else that Amon did is recorded in <span class="bk">The History of the Kings of Judah</span>. </span><span class="v12_21_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.21.26" class="v12_21_26">26</span>Amon was buried in the tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah succeeded him as king.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">21.6: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">consulted; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">brought back.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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