Bible Cross References
when
2 Chronicles 13:7
Later he gathered together a group of worthless scoundrels, and they forced their will on Rehoboam son of Solomon, who was too young and inexperienced to resist them.
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-five years.
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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.
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He rebuilt the pagan places of worship that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He built altars for the worship of Baal, made images of the goddess Asherah, and worshiped the stars.
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He built pagan altars in the Temple, the place that the LORD had said was where he should be worshiped forever.
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In the two courtyards of the Temple he built altars for the worship of the stars.
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He sacrificed his sons in Hinnom Valley as burnt offerings. He practiced divination and magic and consulted fortunetellers and mediums. He sinned greatly against the LORD and stirred up his anger.
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He placed an image in the Temple, the place about which God 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.
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And if the people of Israel will obey all my commands and keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them, then I will not allow them to be driven out of the land that I gave to their ancestors."
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Manasseh led the people of Judah to commit even greater sins than those committed by the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced.
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Although the LORD warned Manasseh and his people, they refused to listen.
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So the LORD let the commanders of the Assyrian army invade Judah. They captured Manasseh, stuck hooks in him, put him in chains, and took him to Babylon.
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In his suffering he became humble, turned to the LORD his God, and begged him for help.
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God accepted Manasseh's prayer and answered it by letting him go back to Jerusalem and rule again. This convinced Manasseh that the LORD was God.
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After this, Manasseh increased the height of the outer wall on the east side of David's City, from a point in the valley near Gihon Spring north to the Fish Gate and the area of the city called Ophel. He also stationed an army officer in command of a unit of troops in each of the fortified cities of Judah.
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He removed from the Temple the foreign gods and the image that he had placed there, and the pagan altars that were on the hill where the Temple stood and in other places in Jerusalem; he took all these things outside the city and threw them away.
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He also repaired the altar where the LORD was worshiped, and he sacrificed fellowship offerings and thanksgiving offerings on it. He commanded all the people of Judah to worship the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Although the people continued to offer sacrifices at other places of worship, they offered them only to the LORD.
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Everything else that Manasseh did, the prayer he made to his God, and the messages of the prophets who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
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The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented---the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshiped---are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.
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Manasseh died and was buried at the palace, and his son Amon succeeded him as king.
2 Chronicles 36:2
Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months.
2 Chronicles 36:5
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. He sinned against the LORD his God.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for three months and ten days. He too sinned against the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years.
Isaiah 3:4
The LORD will let the people be governed by immature boys.
Isaiah 3:5
Everyone will take advantage of everyone else. Young people will not respect their elders, and worthless people will not respect their superiors.
Isaiah 3:12
Moneylenders oppress my people, and their creditors cheat them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, so that you do not know which way to turn.
and
Proverbs 20:1
Drinking too much makes you loud and foolish. It's stupid to get drunk.
Proverbs 20:2
Fear an angry king as you would a growling lion; making him angry is suicide.
Isaiah 5:11
You are doomed! You get up early in the morning to start drinking, and you spend long evenings getting drunk.
Isaiah 5:12
At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes---and wine. But you don't understand what the LORD is doing,
Isaiah 28:7
Even the prophets and the priests are so drunk that they stagger. They have drunk so much wine and liquor that they stumble in confusion. The prophets are too drunk to understand the visions that God sends, and the priests are too drunk to decide the cases that are brought to them.
Isaiah 28:8
The tables where they sit are all covered with vomit, and not a clean spot is left.
Hosea 7:5-7
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On the day of the king's celebration they made the king and his officials drunk and foolish with wine.
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Yes, they burned like an oven with their plotting. All night their anger smoldered, and in the morning it burst into flames.
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"In the heat of their anger they murdered their rulers. Their kings have been assassinated one after another, but no one prays to me for help."
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Jeremiah 21:12
(SEE 21:11)