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CHAPTER CHRONICLES 33
Manasseh
was
twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in
Jerusalem:
2
But did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, like unto the abominations of the
heathen, whom the L
ORD
had cast out before the children of Israel.
3
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared
up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4
Also he built altars in the house of the L
ORD
, whereof the L
ORD
had said, In Jerusalem shall my
name be for ever.
5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of
the L
ORD
.
6
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom:
also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit,
and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the L
ORD
, to provoke him to anger.
7
And
he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to
David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the
tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel
from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all
that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by
the hand of Moses.
9
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err,
and
to do
worse than the heathen, whom the L
ORD
had destroyed before the children of Israel.
10
And the
L
ORD
spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
11
Wherefore the L
ORD
brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which
took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12
And
when he was in affliction, he besought the L
ORD
his God, and humbled himself greatly before the
God of his fathers,
13
And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the L
ORD
he
was
God.
14
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the
valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very
great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
15
And he took away the
strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the L
ORD
, and all the altars that he had built in the
mount of the house of the L
ORD
, and in Jerusalem, and cast
them
out of the city.
16
And he repaired
the altar of the L
ORD
, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded
Judah to serve the L
ORD
God of Israel.
17
Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high
places, yet unto the L
ORD
their God only.
18
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers
that spake to him in the name of the L
ORD
God of Israel, behold, they
are written
in the book of
the kings of Israel.
19
His prayer also, and
how God
was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his
trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before
he was humbled: behold, they
are
written among the sayings of the seers.
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