Bible, King James Version
2_Kings
2Kgs.21
[1] Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's
name was Hephzi-bah.
[2] 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.
[3] 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.
[4] And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which
the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
[5] And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of the LORD.
[6] 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.
[7] 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:
[8] 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.
[9] 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.
[10] And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
[11] 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:
[12] 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.
[13] 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.
[14] 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;
[15] 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.
[16] 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.
[17] 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?
[18] 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.
[19] 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.
[20] And he did that which was evil in the sight of the
LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
[21] And he walked in all the way that his father walked
in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped
them:
[22] And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and
walked not in the way of the LORD.
[23] And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and
slew the king in his own house.
[24] 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.
[25] 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?
[26] And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of
Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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