2 Chronicles 33:10-20

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Manasseh's Repentance

¹⁰The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. ¹¹^(A)Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and ^(B)bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. ¹²And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God ^(C)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³He prayed to him, and ^(D)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. ^(E)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

¹⁴Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of ^(F)Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into ^(G)the Fish Gate, and carried it around ^(H)Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. ¹⁵And ^(I)he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. ¹⁶He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁷^(J)Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and ^(K)his prayer to his God, and the words of ^(L)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the ^(M)Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹And his prayer, and how ^(N)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites ^(O)on which he built high places and set up the ^(P)Asherim and the images, before ^(Q)he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.^[a] ²⁰So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 33:19 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai

2 Kings 21:10-18

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Manasseh's Idolatry Denounced

¹⁰And the Lord said by his servants the prophets, ¹¹^(A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things ^(B)more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, ^(C)and has made Judah also to sin ^(D)with his idols, ¹²therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster^[a] that the ears of everyone who hears of it ^(E)will tingle. ¹³^(F)And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, ¹⁵because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”

¹⁶^(G)Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin ^(H)that he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

¹⁷^(I)Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ¹⁸^(J)And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, ^(K)in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

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