The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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[h=1](2 Kings 21:3): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them.

 

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2 Kings 21:4 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]He built altars [/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]in the temple of the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot], of which the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”[/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:5 (NIV)


In the two courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts.

 

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2 Kings 21:6 (NIV)


He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.

 

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2 Kings 21:7 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot]He took the carved Asherah pole[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] he had made and put it in the temple,[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot]of which the [/FONT][FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name[/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot] forever.[/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:8 (NIV)

[FONT=&quot] I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them.”[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:9 (NIV)


But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

 

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2 Kings 21:10 (NIV)


The Lord said through his servants the prophets:

 

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2 Kings 21:11 (KJV)
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

 

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2 Kings 21:12 (KJV)


Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

 

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2 Kings 21:13 (KJV)


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 wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

 

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2 Kings 21:14 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;[/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:15 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.[/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:16 (KJV)
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 that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

 

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2 Kings 21:17 (KJV)

[FONT=&quot]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?[/FONT]

 

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[h=1](2 Kings 21:18): ...New International Version (NIV)[/h]18 Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.

 

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[h=1](2 Kings 21:19): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][h=3]Amon Succeeds Manasseh[/h]19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

 

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2 Kings 21:20 (NASB)

[FONT=&quot] He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:21 (NASB)


[FONT=&quot]For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.[/FONT][FONT=&quot] [/FONT]

 

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2 Kings 21:20 (NIV)


As for the other events of Hezekiah’s reign, all his achievements and how he made the pool and the tunnel by which he brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?