Bible Cross References
A. M. 3306-3361. B.C. 693-643. Manasseh
2 Chronicles 32:33
So Hezekiah rested with his fathers, and they buried him in the upper tombs of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:1-18
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Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name [was] Hephzibah.
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And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
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He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My name."
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [Him] to anger.
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He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD 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 put My name forever;
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"and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers -- only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them."
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But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,
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"Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (he has acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who [were] before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols),
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"therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Behold, [I] am bringing [such] calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
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'And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as [one] wipes a dish, wiping [it] and turning [it] upside down.
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'So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies,
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'because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.' "
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Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh -- 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?
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So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.
1 Chronicles 3:13
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
Matthew 1:10
Hezekiah begot Manasseh, Manasseh begot Amon, and Amon begot Josiah.
Manasses
2 Chronicles 34:1
Josiah [was] eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 34:2
And he did [what was] right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of his father David; [he] did [not] turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Ecclesiastes 10:16
Woe to you, O land, when your king [is] a child, And your princes feast in the morning!
Isaiah 3:4
"I will give children [to be] their princes, And babes shall rule over them.
Isaiah 3:12
[As for] My people, children [are] their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause [you] to err, And destroy the way of your paths."