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Text -- 2 Kings 21:1-9 (NET)
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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 .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Manasseh |
ZEPHANIAH, BOOK OF |
Israel |
Rulers |
MANASSES, THE PRAYER OF |
JUDAH, KINGDOM OF |
Kings, The Books of |
Idolatry |
ALLIANCE |
HIGH PLACE |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Groves |
HOST OF HEAVEN |
Temple |
ASHERAH |
HEPHZIBAH |
JERUSALEM, 4 |
DIVINATION |
Stars |
ADORATION |
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NET Notes: 2Ki 21:6 Heb “and he multiplied doing what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, angering.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix (“him...
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NET Notes: 2Ki 21:7 Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name perpetually (or perhaps “forever...
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NET Notes: 2Ki 21:8 Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I gave to their fathers.”
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