2 Chronicles 33

1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:1 · 1Chr 3:13 · 2Chr 32:33 · 2Chr 34:1 · Eccl 10:16 · Isa 3:4 · +2 more

2He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.Cross-references: Lev 18:24 · Lev 20:22 · Deut 12:31 · Deut 18:9 · Deut 18:14 · 2Ki 17:11 · +9 more

3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Deut 16:21 · Deut 17:3 · Judg 2:11 · 1Ki 14:23 · 2Ki 18:4 · +14 more

4He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”Cross-references: Deut 12:11 · 1Ki 8:29 · 1Ki 9:3 · 2Ki 21:4 · 2Chr 6:6 · 2Chr 7:16 · +4 more

5He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: 2Chr 4:9 · Jer 32:34 · Ezek 8:7

6He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.Cross-references: Lev 18:21 · Lev 19:26 · Lev 19:31 · Lev 20:2 · Lev 20:6 · Lev 20:27 · +16 more

7He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God 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, I will put my name forever.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:29 · 1Ki 8:44 · 1Ki 8:48 · 1Ki 11:13 · 1Ki 11:32 · 2Ki 21:7 · +7 more

8I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”Cross-references: Lev 8:36 · Lev 10:11 · Deut 4:40 · Deut 5:1 · Deut 5:31 · Deut 8:1 · +9 more

9Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.Cross-references: Lev 18:24 · Deut 2:21 · Josh 24:8 · 1Ki 14:16 · 1Ki 15:26 · 2Ki 17:8 · +8 more

10Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they didn’t listen.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:29 · Jer 25:4 · Jer 44:4 · Zech 1:4 · Acts 7:51

11Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.Cross-references: Deut 28:36 · 1Sam 13:6 · 2Ki 23:33 · 2Ki 25:6 · 2Chr 36:6 · Neh 9:32 · +8 more

12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.Cross-references: Ex 10:3 · Lev 26:39 · Deut 4:30 · 2Chr 28:5 · 2Chr 28:22 · 2Chr 32:26 · +11 more

13He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.Cross-references: Deut 29:6 · 1Chr 5:20 · Ezra 7:27 · Ezra 8:23 · Job 22:23 · Job 22:27 · +18 more

14Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.Cross-references: 1Ki 1:33 · 1Ki 1:45 · 2Chr 11:11 · 2Chr 17:19 · 2Chr 27:3 · 2Chr 32:5 · +5 more

15He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:7 · 2Chr 33:3 · Isa 2:17 · Ezek 18:20 · Hos 14:1 · Matt 3:8

16He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Lev 3:1 · Lev 7:11 · 1Ki 18:30 · 2Chr 14:4 · 2Chr 29:18 · +3 more

17Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.Cross-references: 1Ki 22:43 · 2Ki 15:4 · 2Chr 15:17 · 2Chr 32:12

18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.Cross-references: 1Sam 9:9 · 1Ki 11:41 · 1Ki 14:19 · 1Ki 15:31 · 2Ki 17:13 · 2Chr 20:34 · +8 more

19His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.Cross-references: 2Chr 30:11 · 2Chr 33:1 · 2Chr 36:12 · Ps 119:67 · Ps 119:71 · Ps 119:75 · +6 more

20So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:18 · 1Chr 3:14 · 2Chr 32:33 · Matt 1:10

21Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:19 · 2Chr 33:1 · Luke 12:19 · James 4:13

22He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:1 · 2Ki 21:20 · 2Chr 33:1 · 2Chr 34:3 · Isa 44:13 · Ezek 20:18

23He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.Cross-references: 2Chr 28:22 · 2Chr 33:1 · 2Chr 33:12 · 2Chr 33:19 · Jer 7:26 · Jer 8:12 · +1 more

24His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.Cross-references: 2Sam 4:5 · 2Ki 21:23 · 2Chr 24:25 · 2Chr 25:27 · Ps 55:23 · Rom 11:22

25But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.Cross-references: Gen 9:5 · Num 35:31 · Num 35:33 · 2Chr 26:1 · 2Chr 34:1 · 2Chr 36:1