The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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2 Chronicles 33:8 (ASV)

pointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses.

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2 Chronicles 33:8
neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers; if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.'

2 Chronicles 33:11 (BSB)
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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Sorry, somehow I cut off the first line in 33:8.

2 Chronicles 33:12 (NASB)

When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:13 (NASB)

When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:14 (ERV)
Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate; and he compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fenced cities of Judah.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:15 New International Version (NIV)

He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the Lord, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:16 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And he built up the altar of the LORD, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:17 (BSB)
Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:18 (NASB)

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of Israel.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:19 (NASB)

His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:20 (BSB)
And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon became king in his place.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:21 (ASV)

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:22 (ASV)

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:23 (BSB)
but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:24 (KJV)
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

 

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2 Chronicles 33:25 (KJV)
But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

 

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2 Chronicles 34:1 (NKJV)

Josiah Reigns in Judah

1. Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

 

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2 Chronicles 34:2 (NKJV)

And he did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

 

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2 Chronicles 34:3 (BSB)
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.

 

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2 Chronicles 34:4 (NKJV)

They broke down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars which were above them he cut down; and the wooden images, the carved images, and the molded images he broke in pieces, and made dust of them and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

 

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2 Chronicles 34:5 (NKJV)

He also burned the bones of the priests on their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.