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2 Chronicles 33

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2 Chronicles 33 . 1 , Manasseh’s wicked reign; 2 Chronicles 33 . 3 , He sets up idolatry , and will not be admonished; 2 Chronicles 33 . 11 , He is carried into Babylon; 2 Chronicles 33 . 12 , Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry; 2 Chronicles 33 . 18 , His acts; 2 Chronicles 33 . 20 , He dying , Amon succeeds him; 2 Chronicles 33 . 21 , who is slain by his servants; 2 Chronicles 33 . 25 , The murderers being slain , Josiah succeeds him.

2 Chronicles 33:1

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

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2 Chronicles 33:2

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

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2 Chronicles 33:3

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

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Heb. he returned and built

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2 Chronicles 33:4

Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”

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2 Chronicles 33:5

In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

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2 Chronicles 33:6

He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

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2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

2 Chronicles 33:7 · BSB

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he set a carved image The Targumist says , "He set up an image , the likeness of himself , in the house of the sanctuary." In the parallel passage it is , "a graven image of the grove ," or rather , Asherah or Astarte. Manasseh , as Bp. Patrick observes , seems to have studied to find out what God had forbidden in his law , that he might practice it . amost prodigious change from the height of piety in his father's time , into the sink of impiety in this!

2 Chronicles 33:8

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”

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2 Chronicles 33:9

So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

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2 Chronicles 33:10

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

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2 Chronicles 33:11

So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

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Heb. which were the king's

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The word bachochim may possibly here signify with fetters or chains , as the kindred word chachim denotes

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fetters or , chains

2 Chronicles 33:12

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

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2 Chronicles 33:13

And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

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2 Chronicles 33:14

After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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or , the tower

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2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

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2 Chronicles 33:16

Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 33:17

Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

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2 Chronicles 33:18

As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

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the seers or , Hosai , So the Targum and Vulgate . the Syraic has Hanun the prophet; and the Arabic , Saphan the prophet. This record is totally lost; for the captivity and repentance of Manasseh are related no where else; and the prayer of Manasseh in the Apocrypha was probably composed long afterwards . it is not acknowledged as canonical even by the Romish church , though it was anciently used as a form of confession , and as such still received by the Greek church.

2 Chronicles 33:20

And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

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2 Chronicles 33:21

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.

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2 Chronicles 33:22

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,

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Amon's conduct is recorded as like his father Manasseh , in sacrificing to graven images; by which some think it is an evidence that Manasseh did not truly repent , but they forget how many good kings had wicked sons. In one point of view Manasseh was defective , although it cannot be supposed that it affected his eternal state; for when he cast out the images , he did not utterly deface and destroy them , according to the law in

  • Deuteronomy 7:5 which required , moreover , that the graven images should be burnt with fire. How necessary that law was , this instance shows; for the carved images being only thrown aside , and not burnt , Amon knew where to find them , soon set them up , and sacrificed to them
  • Isaiah 44:13-20

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2 Chronicles 33:23

but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

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Heb. multiplied trespass

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2 Chronicles 33:24

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.

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2 Chronicles 33:25

But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

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In the wider web9 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations 2 Chronicles 33:1 → 2 Kings 21:1, 2 Chronicles 33:1-20 → 2 Kings 21:1-18, 2 Chronicles 33:21 → 2 Kings 21:19, 2 Chronicles 33:21-25 → 2 Kings 21:19-26, 2 Chronicles 33:21-25 → 2 Kings 21:3-5
Allusions 2 Chronicles 33:21 → 2 Kings 21:3
Echoes 2 Chronicles 33:1 → 2 Kings 25:7, 2 Chronicles 33:1-20 → 2 Kings 25:7
Chiasms
Shaped 2 Chronicles 33:1–20
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