Bible Cross References
as his father
2 Kings 21:2-7
2
Following the disgusting practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced, Manasseh sinned against the LORD.
3
He rebuilt the pagan places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he built altars for the worship of Baal and made an image of the goddess Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. Manasseh also worshiped the stars.
4
He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped.
5
In the two courtyards of the Temple he built altars for the worship of the stars.
6
He sacrificed his son as a burnt offering. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the LORD and stirred up his anger.
7
He placed the symbol of the goddess Asherah in the Temple, the place about which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon: "Here in Jerusalem, in this Temple, is the place that I have chosen out of all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel as the place where I am to be worshiped.
Numbers 32:14
And now you have taken your ancestors' place, a new generation of sinful people ready to bring down the fierce anger of the LORD on Israel again.
2 Chronicles 33:22
Like his father Manasseh, he sinned against the LORD, and he worshiped the idols that his father had worshiped.
2 Chronicles 33:23
But unlike his father, he did not become humble and turn to the LORD; he was even more sinful than his father had been.
Matthew 23:32
Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!
Acts 7:51
"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!