2 Kings 21

1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.Cross-references: 2Ki 20:21 · 1Chr 3:13 · 2Chr 32:33 · Prov 5:19 · Isa 62:4 · Matt 1:10

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 18:25 · Deut 12:31 · 2Ki 16:2 · 2Ki 21:7 · 2Ki 21:16 · 2Ki 22:17 · +4 more

3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.Cross-references: Deut 4:19 · Deut 17:3 · 1Ki 16:31 · 1Ki 18:21 · 1Ki 18:26 · 2Ki 8:18 · +11 more

4He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Deut 12:5 · 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 8:29 · 1Ki 9:3 · 2Ki 16:10 · +3 more

5He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: 1Ki 6:36 · 1Ki 7:12 · 2Ki 23:4 · 2Ki 23:6 · 2Ki 23:12 · 2Chr 33:5 · +8 more

6He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, 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: Gen 13:13 · Lev 18:21 · Lev 19:26 · Lev 19:31 · Lev 20:2 · Deut 18:10 · +10 more

7He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh 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: Deut 16:21 · 2Sam 7:13 · 1Ki 8:29 · 1Ki 8:44 · 1Ki 9:3 · 1Ki 9:7 · +13 more

8I will not 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.”Cross-references: Lev 26:3 · Deut 5:28 · Deut 28:1 · Josh 23:11 · 2Sam 7:10 · 2Ki 18:11 · +10 more

9But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:16 · 2Chr 33:9 · 2Chr 36:16 · Ezra 9:10 · Neh 9:26 · Neh 9:29 · +12 more

10Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,Cross-references: 2Chr 33:10 · 2Chr 36:15 · Neh 9:26 · Neh 9:30 · Matt 23:34

11“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;Cross-references: Gen 15:16 · 1Ki 14:16 · 1Ki 15:30 · 1Ki 16:19 · 1Ki 21:26 · 2Ki 21:2 · +8 more

12therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:11 · 2Ki 22:16 · Isa 28:16 · Jer 19:3 · Dan 9:12 · Amos 3:2 · +4 more

13I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plumb line of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · 1Ki 21:21 · 2Ki 10:11 · 2Ki 17:6 · Isa 10:22 · Isa 14:23 · +9 more

14I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,Cross-references: Lev 26:17 · Lev 26:36 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:31 · Deut 28:48 · +19 more

15because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”Cross-references: Deut 9:21 · Deut 31:27 · Deut 31:29 · Judg 2:11 · Ps 106:34 · Ezek 16:15 · +7 more

16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.Cross-references: Ex 32:21 · Num 35:33 · Deut 21:8 · 1Ki 14:15 · 2Ki 21:7 · 2Ki 21:11 · +10 more

17Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?Cross-references: 2Ki 20:20 · 2Chr 33:1

18Manasseh 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 place.Cross-references: 2Ki 21:26 · 2Chr 21:20 · 2Chr 24:16 · 2Chr 24:25 · 2Chr 28:27 · 2Chr 32:33 · +2 more

19Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:25 · 1Ki 16:8 · 1Ki 22:51 · 2Ki 15:23 · 1Chr 3:14 · 2Chr 33:21 · +1 more

20He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did.Cross-references: Num 32:14 · 2Ki 21:2 · 2Ki 21:11 · 2Chr 33:22 · Matt 23:32 · Acts 7:51

21He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;

22and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · 1Ki 11:33 · 2Ki 22:17 · 1Chr 28:9 · Jer 2:13 · Jonah 2:8

23The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.Cross-references: 1Ki 15:27 · 1Ki 16:9 · 2Ki 12:20 · 2Ki 14:19 · 2Ki 15:25 · 2Ki 15:30 · +1 more

24But 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: 1Sam 11:15 · 2Sam 5:3 · 1Ki 12:1 · 1Ki 12:20 · 2Ki 11:17 · 2Ki 14:5 · +4 more

25Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?Cross-references: 2Ki 20:20 · 2Ki 21:17

26He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: 1Ki 13:5 · 2Ki 21:18 · Matt 1:10