Second Book of Chronicles, Chapter 33

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2 Chronicles 33 NASB - New American Standard Bible

Chapter 33 of 2 Chronicles—New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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1. ¶ ¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2. ²He did evil in the sight of the LORD according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.
3. For ³he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; ⁴he also erected altars for the Baals and made ^[a]Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
4. ⁵He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD had said, “My name shall be ⁶in Jerusalem forever.”
5. For he built altars for all the host of heaven in ⁷the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6. ⁸He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and ⁹dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
7. Then he put ¹⁰the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “¹¹In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
8. and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land ¹²which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses.”
9. Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.
10. ¶ The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but ¹³they paid no attention.
11. ¹⁴Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with ^[b]hooks, ¹⁵bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
12. When ¹⁶he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and ¹⁷humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13. When he prayed to Him, ¹⁸He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ¹⁹knew that the LORD was God.
14. ¶ Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of ²⁰Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the ²¹Fish Gate; and he encircled the ²²Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15. He also ²³removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
16. He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed ²⁴peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
17. Nevertheless ²⁵the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the LORD their God.
18. ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even ²⁶his prayer to his God, and the words of ²⁷the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of ²⁸Israel.
19. His prayer also and ²⁹how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and ³⁰the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the ^[c]Hozai.
20. So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his place.
21. ¶ ³¹Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
22. He did evil in the sight of the LORD as Manasseh his father ³²had done, and Amon sacrificed to all ³³the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
23. Moreover, he did not humble himself before the LORD ³⁴as his father Manasseh had ^[d]done, but Amon multiplied guilt.
24. Finally ³⁵his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.
25. But the people of the land ^[e]killed all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

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FOOTNOTES

1. ^ I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
2. ^ I.e. thongs put through the nose
3. ^ Gr reads seers
4. ^ Lit humbled himself
5. ^ Lit smote

REFERENCES

1. ^ 2Ki 21:1-9
2. ^ 2Ch 28:3; Je 15:4
3. ^ 2Ch 31:1
4. ^ De 16:21; 2Ki 23:5, 6
5. ^ 2Ch 28:24
6. ^ 2Sa 7:13; 2Ch 7:16
7. ^ 2Ch 4:9
8. ^ 2Ch 28:3
9. ^ Le 19:31; 20:27
10. ^ 2Ch 33:15
11. ^ 1Ki 9:3-5; 2Ch 7:16; 33:4
12. ^ 2Sa 7:10
13. ^ Ne 9:29; Je 25:4
14. ^ De 28:36
15. ^ 2Ch 36:6
16. ^ Ps 118:5; 120:1; 130:1, 2
17. ^ 2Ch 32:26
18. ^ 1Ch 5:20; Ezr 8:23
19. ^ Da 4:32
20. ^ 1Ki 1:33
21. ^ Ne 3:3
22. ^ 2Ch 27:3
23. ^ 2Ch 33:3-7
24. ^ Le 7:11-18
25. ^ 2Ch 32:12
26. ^ 2Ch 33:12, 13
27. ^ 2Ch 33:10
28. ^ 2Ch 21:2
29. ^ 2Ch 33:13
30. ^ 2Ch 33:3
31. ^ 2Ki 21:19-24
32. ^ 2Ch 33:2-7
33. ^ 2Ch 34:3, 4
34. ^ 2Ch 33:12, 19
35. ^ 2Ch 25:27

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