16 (A)Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

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11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ((B)he has acted more wickedly than all the (C)Amorites who were before him, and (D)has also made Judah sin with his idols),

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37 (A)They were stoned, they were sawn in two, [a]were tempted, were slain with the sword. (B)They wandered about (C)in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented—

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  1. Hebrews 11:37 NU omits were tempted

Jesus Laments over Jerusalem(A)

34 (B)“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

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But the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because they are the price of blood.”

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30 and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

31 “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that (A)you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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“Because they (A)have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with (B)the blood of the innocents

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I will hand them over to (A)trouble, to all kingdoms of the earth, because of (B)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

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if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (A)or walk after other gods to your hurt,

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34 Also on your skirts is found
(A)The blood of the lives of the poor innocents.
I have not found it by [a]secret search,
But plainly on all these things.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:34 digging

So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

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Surely at the commandment of the Lord this came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight (A)because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done, (B)and also because of the innocent blood that he had shed; for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the Lord would not pardon.

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He even set a carved image of [a]Asherah that he had made, in the [b]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, (A)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 21:7 A Canaanite goddess
  2. 2 Kings 21:7 Temple

15 For the Lord will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water. He will (A)uproot Israel from this (B)good land which He gave to their fathers, and will scatter them (C)beyond [a]the River, (D)because they have made their [b]wooden images, provoking the Lord to anger. 16 And He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, (E)who sinned and who made Israel sin.”

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  1. 1 Kings 14:15 The Euphrates
  2. 1 Kings 14:15 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities

Provide atonement, O Lord, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, (A)and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.’ And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood. So (B)you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

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33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood (A)defiles the land, and no [a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except (B)by the blood of him who shed it.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 35:33 Lit. covering

21 And Moses said to Aaron, (A)“What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”

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