2 Chronicles 33

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

1 Manasseh *2 Kin. 21:1–9was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the *(Deut. 18:9–12); 2 Chr. 28:3; (Jer. 15:4)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had *2 Kin. 18:4; 2 Chr. 30:14; 31:1broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and *Deut. 16:21; 2 Kin. 23:5, 6made wooden images; and he worshiped *Deut. 17:3all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, *Deut. 12:11; 1 Kin. 8:29; 9:3; 2 Chr. 6:6; 7:16"In Jerusalem shall My name be forever." 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven *2 Chr. 4:9in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 *(Lev. 18:21); Deut. 18:10; 2 Kin. 23:10; 2 Chr. 28:3; Ezek. 23:37, 39Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced *Deut. 18:11; 2 Kin. 17:17soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and *(Lev. 19:31; 20:27); 2 Kin. 21:6consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 *2 Kin. 21:7; 2 Chr. 25:14He even 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, *Ps. 132:14"In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; 8 *2 Sam. 7:10and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers—only if they are careful 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 seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

Manasseh Restored After Repentance

10 And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen. 11 *Deut. 28:36Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, *2 Chr. 36:6; Job 36:8; Ps. 107:10, 11bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon. 12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and *2 Chr. 7:14; 32:26; (1 Pet. 5:6)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13 and prayed to Him; and He *1 Chr. 5:20; Ezra 8:23received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh *1 Kin. 20:13; Ps. 9:16; Dan. 4:25knew that the Lordwas God.

14 After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of *1 Kin. 1:33Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it*2 Chr. 27:3enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15 He took away *2 Chr. 33:3, 5, 7the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city. 16 He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings and *Lev. 7:12thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel. 17 *2 Chr. 32:12Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

Death of Manasseh

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of *1 Sam. 9:9the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, indeed they arewritten in the book of the kings of Israel. 19 Also his prayer and howGod received his entreaty, and all his sin and trespass, and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images, before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai. 20 *1 Kin. 1:21; 2 Kin. 21:18So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.

Amon’s Reign and Death

21 *2 Kin. 21:19–24; 1 Chr. 3:14Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22 But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them. 23 And he did not humble himself before the Lord, *2 Chr. 33:12, 19as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

24 *2 Kin. 21:23, 24; 2 Chr. 24:25Then his servants conspired against him, and *2 Chr. 25:27killed him in his own house. 25 But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.