2 Kings 21

About 2 Kings 2 Kings traces the divided kingdoms to their fall, Israel to Assyria and Judah to Babylon.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.Selected2 Kings 21:1Ask

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.Selected2 Kings 21:2Ask

For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.Selected2 Kings 21:3Ask

And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.Selected2 Kings 21:4Ask

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.Selected2 Kings 21:5Ask

And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.Selected2 Kings 21:6Ask

And he set a graven image of the grove 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 tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:Selected2 Kings 21:7Ask

Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if 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.Selected2 Kings 21:8Ask

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.Selected2 Kings 21:9Ask

And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,Selected2 Kings 21:10Ask

Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:Selected2 Kings 21:11Ask

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.Selected2 Kings 21:12Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 21:13Ask

And I will forsake 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;Selected2 Kings 21:14Ask

Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.Selected2 Kings 21:15Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 21:16Ask

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?Selected2 Kings 21:17Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 21:18Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 21:19Ask

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.Selected2 Kings 21:20Ask

And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:Selected2 Kings 21:21Ask

And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.Selected2 Kings 21:22Ask

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.Selected2 Kings 21:23Ask

And 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.Selected2 Kings 21:24Ask

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?Selected2 Kings 21:25Ask

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.Selected2 Kings 21:26Ask

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