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Manasseh’s Reign over Judah
21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king , and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem . His mother was Hephzibah . 21:2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites . 21:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed ; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done . He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them. 21:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple , about which the Lord had said , “Jerusalem will be my home .” 21:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky . 21:6 He passed his son through the fire and practiced divination and omen reading . He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits , and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord , provoking him to anger . 21:7 He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple , about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon , “This temple in Jerusalem , which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , will be my permanent home. 21:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors , provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.” 21:9 But they did not obey , and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites . 21:10 So the Lord announced through his servants the prophets : 21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins . He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols . 21:12 So this is what the Lord God of Israel says , ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah . The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it. 21:13 I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab . I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides . 21:14 I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies ; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies , 21:15 because they have done evil in my sight and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day !’” 21:16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end , in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord . 21:17 The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign and all his accomplishments , as well as the sinful acts he committed , are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah . 21:18 Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace garden , the garden of Uzzah , and his son Amon replaced him as king .
Amon’s Reign over Judah
21:19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king , and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem . His mother was Meshullemeth , the daughter of Haruz , from Jotbah . 21:20 He did evil in the sight of the Lord , just like his father Manasseh had done . 21:21 He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped . 21:22 He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions . 21:23 Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace . 21:24 The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon , and they made his son Josiah king in his place . 21:25 The rest of Amon’s accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah . 21:26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah , and his son Josiah replaced him as king .

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  • JUDAH, KINGDOM OF

    [isbe] JUDAH, KINGDOM OF - || I. CANAAN BEFORE THE MONARCHY 1. The Coming of the Semites 2. The Canaanites 3. The Israelite Confederacy 4. Migration into Canaan 5. The Bond of Union 6. Early Rulers 7. The Judges 8. Hereditary Kings...

  • 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...

  • Kings, The Books of

    [ebd] The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third and fourth books of Kings...

  • Amon

    [ebd] builder. (1.) The governor of Samaria in the time of Ahab. The prophet Micaiah was committed to his custody (1 Kings 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25). (2.) The son of Manasseh, and fourteenth king of Judah. He restored idolatry, and set...
    [isbe] AMON - a'-mon ('amon): A name identical with that of the Egyptian local deity of Thebes (No); compare Jer 46:25. The foreign name given to a Hebrew prince is remarkable, as is also the fact that it is one of the two or three...
    [nave] AMON 1. Governor of the city of Samaria, 1 Kin. 22:26; 2 Chr. 18:25. 2. King of Judah, 2 Kin. 21:18-26; 2 Chr. 33:21-25; Zeph. 1:1; Matt. 1:10. 3. Ancestor of one of the families of the Nethinim, Neh. 7:59. Called Ami, Ez...

  • 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...

  • ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF

    [isbe] ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF - I. THE AUTHOR 1. Name 2. Ancestry 3. Life II. TIME 1. Date 2. Political Situation 3. Moral and Religious Conditions III. BOOK 1. Contents 2. Integrity IV. TEACHING 1. The Day of Yahweh 2. Universalism 3....

  • Rulers

    [nave] RULERS Appointed and removed by God. See: Government, God in. Chastised, Dan. 4. See: Nation. Monarchical, See: Kings. Patriarchal, Gen. 27:29, 37. Instances of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. Abraham, Gen. 14:13-24; 17:6; 21:2...

  • 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....

  • ALLIANCE

    [isbe] ALLIANCE - a-li'-ans. 1. In the Patriarchal Stories: Frequent references are made to alliances between the patriarchs and foreigners. Abraham is reported to have had "confederates" among the chiefs of the Canaanites (Gen 14:...

  • Idolatry

    [isbe] IDOLATRY - i-dol'-a-tri (teraphim, "household idols," "idolatry"; eidololatreia): There is ever in the human mind a craving for visible forms to express religious conceptions, and this tendency does not disappear with the ac...
    [nave] IDOLATRY. Wicked Practices of Human sacrifices, Lev. 18:21; 20:2-5; Deut. 12:31; 18:10; 2 Kin. 3:26, 27; 16:3; 17:17, 18; 21:6; 23:10; 2 Chr. 28:3; 33:6; Psa. 106:37, 38; Isa. 57:5; Jer. 7:31; 19:4-7; 32:35; Ezek. 16:20, 2...

  • HIGH PLACE

    [isbe] HIGH PLACE - 1. General: (1) "High place" is the normal translation of bamah, a word that means simply "elevation" (Jer 26:18; Ezek 36:2, etc.; compare the use in Job 9:8 of the waves of the sea. For the plural as a proper n...

  • HOST OF HEAVEN

    [ebd] The sun, moon, and stars are so designated (Gen. 2:1). When the Jews fell into idolatry they worshipped these (Deut. 4:19; 2 Kings 17:16; 21:3,5; 23:5; Jer. 19:13; Zeph. 1:5; Acts 7:42).
    [isbe] HOST OF HEAVEN - (tsebha' hashamayim): The expression is employed in the Old Testament to denote (1) the stars, frequently as objects of idolatry (Dt 4:19; 17:3; 2 Ki 17:16; 21:3,1; 23:4 f; Jer 8:2; 19:13; Zeph 1:5), but als...

  • Groves

    [nave] GROVES, probably an image or images of the Canaanite goddess Asherah. See: Ashtoreth. Forbidden to be established, Deut. 16:21; Isa. 1:29; 17:8; 27:9; Mic. 5:14. Worshiped by Israelites, Judg. 3:7; 1 Kin. 14:15, 23; 15:13; ...

  • TEMPLE, A1

    [isbe] TEMPLE, A1 - tem'-p'l (hekhal, "palace"; sometimes, as in 1 Ki 6:3,5, etc.; Ezek 41:1,15 ff, used for "the holy place" only; bayith, "house," thus always in the Revised Version (British and American); hieron, naos): A. STRUC...

  • Haruz

    [ebd] eager, the father of Meshullemeth, the wife of king Manasseh (2 Kings 21:19) and mother of king Amon.
    [isbe] HARUZ - ha'-ruz (charuts): Father of Meshullemeth, the mother of Amon, king of Judah (2 Ki 21:19).
    [smith] (zealous), a man of Jotbah, father of Meshullemeth queen of Manasseh. (2 Kings 21:9) (B.C. before 644.)
    [nave] HARUZ, father-in-law of King Manasseh, 2 Kin. 21:19.

  • 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...

  • Uzza

    [ebd] strengh, a garden in which Manasseh and Amon were buried (2 Kings 21:18, 26). It was probably near the king's palace in Jerusalem, or may have formed part of the palace grounds. Manasseh may probably have acquired it from so...
    [nave] UZZA 1. See: Uzzah, 1. 2. Proprietor of the burial place of kings Manasseh and Amon, 2 Kin. 21:18, 26. 3. Son of Shimei, 1 Chr. 6:29. 4. Son of Ehud, 1 Chr. 8:7. 5. One of the Nethinim, Ezra 2:49; Neh. 7:51.

  • Temple

    [nave] TEMPLE. Solomon's Called also Temple of the Lord, 2 Kin. 11:10; Holy Temple, Psa. 79:1; Holy House, 1 Chr. 29:3; House of God, 1 Chr. 29:2; 2 Chr. 23:9; House of the Lord, 2 Chr. 23:5, 12; Jer. 28:5; Father's House, John 2...

  • Meshullemeth

    [ebd] friend, the wife of Manasseh, and the mother of Amon (2 Kings 21:19), Kings of Judah.
    [isbe] MESHULLEMETH - me-shul'-e-meth (meshullemeth): The wife of King Manasseh and mother of Amon (2 Ki 21:19). She is further designated "daughter of Haruz of Jotbah." This is the earliest instance of the birthplace being added t...
    [smith] (friend), the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah, wife of Manasseh king of Judah, and mother of his successor, Amon. (2 Kings 21:19)
    [nave] MESHULLEMETH, wife of Manasseh and mother of Amon, 2 Kin. 21:19.
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