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24;
24 Amon’s officials conspired
against him and assassinated him in his palace. (6)
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25 Then
the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they
made Josiah his son king in his
place. (7)
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16 Then
he restored the altar of the Lord
and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and told Judah
to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. (7)
17 The people, however, continued
to sacrifice at the high places, but only to the Lord
their God.
18 The other events of
Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the seers spoke
to him in the name of the Lord, the God of
Israel, are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.
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7 He
took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple, of which God had said to
David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever. (7)
8 I will not again
make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be
careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and
regulations given through Moses.”
9 But Manasseh led Judah and the
people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord
had destroyed before the Israelites.
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21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king,
and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.
22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
as his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped and offered sacrifices to all
the idols Manasseh had made. (4)
23 But unlike his father Manasseh,
he did not humble himself before the Lord;
Amon increased his guilt.
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13 And
when he prayed to him, the Lord
was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to
Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God. (4)
14 Afterward he
rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the
valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of
Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the
fortified cities in Judah.
15 He got rid of the foreign gods
and removed the image from the temple of the Lord,
as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and
he threw them out of the city.
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4 He
built altars in the temple of the Lord,
of which the Lord had said, “My Name
will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
(4)
5 In both courts of
the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the
starry hosts.
6 He sacrificed his
children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and
witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much
evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his
anger.
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19 His prayer and how God was
moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the
sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he
humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers. (1)
20 Manasseh rested
with his ancestors and was buried in his palace. And Amon his son succeeded him
as king.
Amon King of Judah
21 Amon was twenty-two
years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years
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10 The
Lord spoke to Manasseh
and his people, but they paid no attention. (1)
11 So the Lord
brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took
Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and
took him to Babylon.
12 In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord
his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
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Manasseh King of
Judah
33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and
he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord,
following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord
had driven out before the Israelites.
3 He rebuilt the high
places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals
and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped
them.
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