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33:1 Manasseh <04519> was twelve <06240> years <08141> old <01121> when he became king, and he reigned <04427> for fifty-five <02568> <02572> years <08141> in Jerusalem <03389>. 33:2 He did <06213> evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the Lord <03068> and committed the same horrible sins <08441> practiced by the nations <01471> whom <0834> the Lord <03068> drove out <03423> ahead <06440> of the Israelites <03478> <01121>. 33:3 He rebuilt <01129> <07725> the high places <01116> that <0834> his father <01> Hezekiah <02396> had destroyed <05422>; he set up <06965> altars <04196> for the Baals <01168> and made <06213> Asherah poles <0842>. He bowed down <07812> to all <03605> the stars <06635> in the sky <08064> and worshiped <05647> them. 33:4 He built <01129> altars <04196> in the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004>, about which <0834> the Lord <03068> had said <0559>, “Jerusalem <03389> will be <01961> my permanent <05769> home.” 33:5 In the two <08147> courtyards <02691> of the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> he built <01129> altars <04196> for all <03605> the stars <06635> in the sky <08064>. 33:6 He <01931> passed <05674> his sons <01121> through the fire <0784> in the Valley <01516> of Ben-Hinnom <02011> <01121> and practiced divination <06049>, omen reading <05172>, and sorcery <03784>. He set up <06213> a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits <0178> and appointed magicians <03049> to supervise <07235> it. He did <06213> a great amount of evil <07451> in the sight <05869> of the Lord <03068> and angered <03707> him. 33:7 He put <07760> an idolatrous <05566> image <06459> he had <0834> made <06213> in God’s <0430> temple <01004>, about which God <0430> had <0834> said <0559> to <0413> David <01732> and to <0413> his son <01121> Solomon <08010>, “This <02088> temple <01004> in Jerusalem <03389>, which <0834> I have chosen <0970> out of all <03605> the tribes <07626> of Israel <03478>, will be my permanent <05865> home. 33:8 I will not <03808> make Israel <03478> again <03254> leave <05493> the land <0127> I gave <05975> to their ancestors <01>, provided that <0518> <07535> they carefully <08104> obey <06213> all <03605> I commanded <06680> them, the whole <03605> law <08451>, the rules <02706> and regulations <04941> given <03027> to Moses <04872>.” 33:9 But Manasseh <04519> misled <08582> the people of Judah <03063> and the residents <03427> of Jerusalem <03389> so that they sinned <07451> <06213> more than <04480> the nations <01471> whom <0834> the Lord <03068> had destroyed <08045> ahead <06440> of the Israelites <03478> <01121>. 33:10 The Lord <03068> confronted <0413> <01696> Manasseh <04519> and his people <05971>, but they paid <07181> no <03808> attention <07181>. 33:11 So the Lord <03068> brought <0935> against <05921> them the commanders <08269> of the army <06635> of the king <04428> of Assyria <0804>. They seized <03920> Manasseh <04519>, put hooks <02336> in his nose, bound <0631> him with bronze chains <05178>, and carried <01980> him away <01980> to Babylon <0894>. 33:12 In his pain <06887> Manasseh asked <02470> the Lord <03068> his God <0430> for mercy <02470> and truly <03966> humbled <03665> himself before <06440> the God <0430> of his ancestors <01>. 33:13 When he prayed <06419> to <0413> the Lord, the Lord responded <06279> to him and answered favorably <08085> his cry for mercy <08467>. The Lord brought <07725> him back <07725> to Jerusalem <03389> to his kingdom <04438>. Then Manasseh <04519> realized <03045> that <03588> the Lord <03068> is the true God <0430>. 33:14 After <0310> this <03651> Manasseh built up <01129> the outer <02435> wall <02346> of the City <05892> of David <01732> on the west side <04628> of the Gihon <01521> in the valley <05158> to the entrance <0935> of the Fish <01709> Gate <08179> and all around <05437> the terrace <06077>; he made <01361> it much <03966> higher <01361>. He placed <07760> army <02428> officers <08269> in all <03605> the fortified <01219> cities <05892> in Judah <03063>. 33:15 He removed <05493> the foreign <05236> gods <0430> and images <05566> from the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and all <03605> the altars <04196> he had built <01129> on the hill <02022> of the Lord’s <03068> temple <01004> and in Jerusalem <03389>; he threw <07993> them outside <02351> the city <05892>.

• 2Ch 33:1-20 -- Manasseh's Reign

• Witchcraft

  [ebd] (1 Sam. 15:23; 2 Kings 9:22; 2 Chr. 33:6; Micah 5:12; Nahum 3:4; Gal. 5:20). In the popular sense of the word no mention is made either of witches or of witchcraft in Scripture. The "witch of En-dor" (1 Sam. 28) was a necrom...
  

• Thistle

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. hoah (2 Kings 14:9; Job 31:40). In Job 41:2 the Hebrew word is rendered "thorn," but in the Revised Version "hook." It is also rendered "thorn" in 2 Chr. 33:11; Prov. 26:9; Cant. 2:2; "brambles" in Isa. 34:13. It i...
  

• Manasseh

  [smith] (forgetting). The thirteenth king of Judah, son of Hezekiah, (2 Kings 21:1) ascended the throne at the age of twelve, and reigned 55 years, from B.C. 608 to 642. His accession was the signal for an entire change in the re...
  [nave] MANASSEH 1. Son of Joseph and Asenath, Gen. 41:50, 51; 46:20; adopted by Jacob on his deathbed, Gen. 48:1, 5-20. Called Manasses, Rev. 7:6. 2. Tribe of. Descendants of Joseph. The two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, ...
  

• Manaen

  [ebd] consoler, a Christian teacher at Antioch. Nothing else is known of him beyond what is stated in Acts 13:1, where he is spoken of as having been brought up with (Gr. syntrophos; rendered in R.V. "foster brother" of) Herod, i....
  

• MANASSES, THE PRAYER OF

  [isbe] MANASSES, THE PRAYER OF - || 1. Name 2. Canonicity and Position 3. Contents 4. Original Language 5. Authenticity 6. Author and Motive 7. Date 8. Text and Versions (1) Greek (2) Latin LITERATURE The Prayer of Manasses purport...
  

• MANASSEH (3)

  [isbe] MANASSEH (3) - A king of Judah, son and successor of Hezekiah; reigned 55 years (2 Ki 21:1; 2 Ch 33:1), from circa 685 onward. His was one of the few royal names not compounded with the name of Yahweh (his son Amon's was the...
  

• JOSIAH

  [isbe] JOSIAH - jo-si'-a (yo'shiyahu, "Yahweh supports him"; Ioseias; the King James Version Josias (which see)): I. SOURCES FOR HIS LIFE AND TIMES 1. Annalistic 2. Prophetic 3. Memorial II. TRAITS OF HIS REIGN 1. Situation at the ...
  

• JERUSALEM, 4

  [isbe] JERUSALEM, 4 - IX. History. Pre-Israelite period.--The beginnings of Jerusalem are long before recorded history: at various points in the neighborhood, e.g. at el Bukei`a to the Southwest, and at the northern extremity of th...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• GEHENNA

  [ebd] (originally Ge bene Hinnom; i.e., "the valley of the sons of Hinnom"), a deep, narrow glen to the south of Jerusalem, where the idolatrous Jews offered their children in sacrifice to Molech (2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Jer. 7:31; 19:...
  [isbe] GEHENNA - ga-hen'-a (geenna (see Grimm-Thayer, under the word)): Gehenna is a transliteration from the Aramaic form of the Hebrew ge-hinnom, "valley of Hinnom." This latter form, however, is rare in the Old Testament, the pr...
  

• Familiar spirit

  [ebd] Sorcerers or necormancers, who professed to call up the dead to answer questions, were said to have a "familiar spirit" (Deut. 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; 2 Chr. 33:6; Lev. 19:31; 20:6; Isa. 8:19; 29:4). Such a person was called by...
  

• FISH

  [ebd] called dag by the Hebrews, a word denoting great fecundity (Gen. 9:2; Num. 11:22; Jonah 2:1, 10). No fish is mentioned by name either in the Old or in the New Testament. Fish abounded in the Mediterranean and in the lakes of...
  [smith] The Hebrews recognized fish as one of the great divisions of the animal kingdom, and as such gave them a place in the account of the creation, (Genesis 1:21,28) as well as in other passages where an exhaustive description of ...
  

• DIVINATION

  [ebd] of false prophets (Deut. 18:10, 14; Micah 3:6, 7, 11), of necromancers (1 Sam. 28:8), of the Philistine priests and diviners (1 Sam. 6:2), of Balaam (Josh. 13:22). Three kinds of divination are mentioned in Ezek. 21:21, by a...
  [isbe] DIVINATION - div-i-na'-shun: 1. Definition 2. Kinds of Divination 3. Fundamental Assumption in Divination 4. Legitimate and Illegitimate Divination 5. The Bible and Divination 6. Modes of Divination Mentioned in the Bible: T...
  

• Church and State

  [nave] CHURCH AND STATE (Identical in the theocratic period. No particular Scripture can be cited, but the student is directed to the legislative, judicial, and administrative functions of Moses, Joshua, the Judges, and Samuel as s...
  

• CARVING

  [isbe] CARVING - karv'-ing: Carving, or engraving, was extensively used among the peoples of Bible lands. There were no materials used in the arts which were not subjected to the graver's skill. Carved objects of wood, stone, ivory...
  

• Bramble

  [ebd] (1.) Hebrew atad, Judg. 9:14; rendered "thorn," Ps. 58:9. The LXX. and Vulgate render by rhamnus, a thorny shrub common in Palestine, resembling the hawthorn. (2.) Hebrew hoah, Isa. 34:13 (R.V. "thistles"); "thickets" in 1 S...
  

• Babylon, kingdom of

  [ebd] called "the land of the Chaldeans" (Jer. 24:5; Ezek, 12:13), was an extensive province in Central Asia along the valley of the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northward for some 300 miles. It was famed for its fertility and its...
  

• AUGURY

  [isbe] AUGURY - o'-gu-ri o'-gur-i: This word occurs in the Revised Version (British and American) in Lev 19:26; Dt 18:10,14; 2 Ki 21:6, and the parallel in 2 Ch 33:6. In all these cases the verb "practice augury" is in the King Jam...
  

• ASHURBANIPAL

  [isbe] ASHURBANIPAL - a-shoor-ba'-ne-pal (Ashur-bani-apal, "Ashur creates a son"): Before setting out on his last campaign to Egypt, Esarhaddon king of Assyria doubtless having had some premonition that his days were numbered, caus...
  

• APOSTASY; APOSTATE

  [isbe] APOSTASY; APOSTATE - a-pos'-ta-si, a-pos'-tat (he apostasia, "a standing away from"): I.e. a falling away, a withdrawal, a defection. Not found in the English Versions of the Bible, but used twice in the New Testament, in th...
  

• King Manasseh

  

• Does the Bible speak more about Hell than Heaven?
  I've heard and read the same statement a number of times, but have never troubled myself to look up each passage. I'm not surprised that looking up "heaven" and "hell" in a concordance would give you contradictory results. T...
• What was the Ark of the Covenant, and was it real?
  The Ark of the Covenant was definitely real and was a part of the tabernacle, being placed in the Holy of Holies behind the curtain. I will include articles below from three Bible Dictionaries that will give you some informat...

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