2 Chronicles, Chapter 33:
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Verses from 2 Chronicles, Chapter 33 of the book of 2 Chronicles of the Bible.
Manasseh is king of Judah
- 1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
- 2. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the children of Israel.
- 3. Manasseh rebuilt the idolatrous altars that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He erected altars for the Baals and made idol poles. He bowed before all the heavenly armies and worshiped them.
- 4. He built altars in the House of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will establish my name forever.”
- 5. In the two courts of the temple of the Lord he built altars for all the heavenly armies.
- 6. He went so far as to burn his own children as sacrifices in the valley of Ben-Hinom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and magic, and consulted mediums and spirits. He did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
- 7. He even placed a carved image that he had made in the House of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son: “In this House and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will place the my name forever.
- 8. And I will no longer cause the feet of Israel to stray from the land that I gave to their fathers, as long as they only strive to do everything that I have commanded them, according to all the law, the statutes and the decrees given through Moisés".
- 9. Manasseh, however, seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do what was worse than the nations that the Lord had exterminated from before the children of Israel.
- 10. Then the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen to him.
- 11. Therefore the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who arrested Manasseh, bound him with hooks and bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
- 12. In his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
- 13. He prayed to him, and the Lord heard his plea, granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh recognized that the Lord is God.
- 14. After this he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of Gihon, in the valley, and brought it to the entrance of the Fish Gate, around the hill, and fortified Ophel. He also appointed military officers in all the fortified cities of Judah.
- 15. He removed the foreign gods and the image from the House of the Lord, as well as all the altars that he had built on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city.
- 16. He restored the altar of the Lord and offered sacrifices of communion and thanksgiving on it. He commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
- 17. However, the people continued to offer sacrifices on high places, but only to the Lord their God.
- 18. The other acts of the reign of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 19. His prayer and how God answered it, all his sins and betrayals, and the places where he built high places and erected idol posts and carved images before he humbled himself, are all recorded in the chronicles of the seers.
- 20. Manasseh rested with his parents and was buried in his house. And his son Ammon became king in his place.
- 21. Ammon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.
- 22. He did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped and offered sacrifices to all the idols that his father had made.
- 23. But unlike his father Manasseh, Ammon did not humble himself before the Lord; on the contrary, he increased his guilt.
Ammon is king of Judah
- 24. Then the officials of Ammon conspired against him and killed him in his own palace.
- 25. However, the people killed all those who conspired against King Ammon and proclaimed his son Josiah king in his place.
