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II Kings
Chapter 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 Hephzibah.
2
And he did that which was evil
in
the sight of Jehovah/God,
after
the abominations of the heathen,
whom
Jehovah/God 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 army/host of heaven,
and
served them.
4
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah/God,
of
which Jehovah/God said,
In
Jerusalem will I put my name.
5
And he built altars for all the army/host of heaven
in
the two courts of the house of Jehovah/God.
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 Jehovah/God,
to
provoke Him to anger.
7
And he set a graven image of the grove
that
he had made in the house,
of
which Jehovah/God 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 forever.
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 Jehovah/God destroyed
before
the children of Israel.
10
And Jehovah/God spoke
by
his servants the prophets, saying, 11
Because
Manasseh king of Judah
has
done these abominations,
and
have done wickedly above all that the Amorites did,
which
were before him,
and
has made Judah also to sin with his idols . . . 12
therefore
thus said Jehovah/God
'Elohiym/Godhead
of Israel,
Behold,
I am bringing such evil
upon
Jerusalem and Judah,
that
whosoever hears 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 wipes a dish,
wiping
it, and turning it upside down.
14
And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance,
and
deliver them into the hand of their enemies;
and
they shall become a prey
and
a spoil to all their enemies;
{See
Jeremiah 2 - Negative Volition Led to Idolatry and Human Sacrifice}
15~~Because
they have done
that
which was evil
{principal of evil - negative volition to the Word}
in
My sight,
and
have provoked Me to anger,
since
the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt,
even
unto this day.
21:16
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 the evil in the sight of Jehovah/God.
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 place/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 Jehovah/God,
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 Jehovah/God
'Elohiym/Godhead
of his fathers,
and
walked not in the way of Jehovah/God.
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 those who had conspired against king Amon;
and
the people of the land made Josiah his son king
in
his place/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 sepulcher in the garden of Uzza
and
Josiah his son reigned in his place/stead.
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