Moff 2 CHR Chapter 33

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33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-five years. 2 He did what was evil in the eyes of the Eternal, following the abominable practices of the pagans whom the Eternal had dispossessed before the Israelites; 3 he rebuilt the shrines which his father Hezekiah had demolished, he erected altars to Baals, made images of Astarte, and worshipped all the stars and did homage to them. 4 He even built altars in the temple of the Eternal, though the Eternal had said, “I will set my Presence here for all time, in Jerusalem”; 5 he built altars for all the stars in the two courtyards of the temple of the Eternal. 6 He burned his children in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, he practised augury, sorcery, and witchcraft, he instituted mediums and wizards; he did ample evil in the sight of the Eternal, to vex him. 7 He put a carved image of an idol he had made, in the temple of God, though God had said to David and his son Solomon, “Within this temple, at Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the clans of Israel, I will grant my Presence for all time; 8 never will I send Israel wandering out of the land I have given to their fathers, if only they will be mindful to obey exactly all my commands, the laws and rules and regulations laid down for them by Moses.” 9 Manasseh made Judah and the citizens of Jerusalem go wrong, till they did worse than the very pagans whom the Eternal had destroyed before the Israelites.

10 The Eternal warned Manasseh and his people, but they paid no heed. 11 So the Eternal brought the generals of the king of Assyria against them, who caught and chained Manasseh, shackling him in fetters and carrying him off to Babylon. 12 When he was in trouble, he besought the Eternal his God, humbling himself low before the God of his fathers; 13 he prayed to him, and the Eternal listened to him, answered his entreaty, and brought him back to his kingdom at Jerusalem. Then Manasseh realized that the Eternal was God.

14 After this he ran a wall outside David’s burg, west of Gihon in the valley, up to the entry of the Fish gate, encircling Ophel; he made the wall very high. He placed army officers in all the fortified towns of Judah. 15 And he removed the foreign gods and the idols from the temple of the Eternal, as well as all the altars he had built on the hill of the temple of the Eternal and throughout Jerusalem; he flung them outside the city. 16 He rebuilt the altar of the Eternal, offering on it sacrifices of recompense-offerings and thank-offerings, and he ordered Judah to worship the Eternal the God of Israel. 17 The people continued to sacrifice at their shrines, but only to the Eternal their God.

18 The rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God and the words spoken to him by the seers in the name of the Eternal the God of Israel, are described in the Book of the Kings of Israel. 19 [[The story of his prayer, of how God answered his entreaty, of all his sin and trespass, and of the places where he built shrines and erected sacred poles and metal idols, before he humbled himself—it is all written in the History of the Seers.]] 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own palace. Amon his son reigned instead of him.

21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for two years. 22 He did what was evil in the eyes of the Eternal, like his father Manasseh; Amon sacrificed to all the carved idols made by his father Manasseh, and worshipped them. 23 He did not humble himself before the Eternal, as his father Manasseh had done; this Amon became worse and worse. 24 His officers conspired against him and murdered him in his palace; 25 but the nation killed all the conspirators, and elected Amon’s son Josiah to reign instead of him.

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Moff 2 CHR Chapter 33

Moff 2 CHR Chapter 33