Book of 2nd Kings Chapter 21
12_2KI_21_01 Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Hephzibah.
12_2KI_21_02 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
12_2KI_21_03 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
12_2KI_21_04 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
12_2KI_21_05 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
12_2KI_21_06 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.
12_2KI_21_07 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
12_2KI_21_08 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
12_2KI_21_09 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
12_2KI_21_10 And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
12_2KI_21_11 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:
12_2KI_21_12 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.
12_2KI_21_13 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.
12_2KI_21_14 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;
12_2KI_21_15 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.
12_2KI_21_16 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.
12_2KI_21_17 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?
12_2KI_21_18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
12_2KI_21_19 Amon [was] twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name [was] Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
12_2KI_21_20 And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
12_2KI_21_21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
12_2KI_21_22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
12_2KI_21_23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
12_2KI_21_24 And 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.
12_2KI_21_25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
12_2KI_21_26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.