The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Chronicles 33
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when
he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five
years in Jerusalem.
2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s
sight, after the abominations ofthenations
whom Yahweh cast out before the children
of Israel.
3 For he built again the high places which
Hezekiah his father had broken down; and
he raised up altars for the Baals, made
Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of
the sky, and served them.
4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of
which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in
Jerusalem forever.”
5 Hebuilt altars for allthe army ofthe sky
in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.
6 He also made his children to pass
through the fire in the valley of the son of
Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination,
and witchcraft, and dealt with those who
had familiar spirits and with wizards. He
did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
7 He set the engraved image of the idol,
which he had made, in God’s house, of
which God 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.
8 I will not any more remove the foot
of Israel from off the land which I have
appointedfor your fathers, if only they will
observe to do all that I have commanded
them, even allthe law, the statutes, and the
ordinances given by Moses.”
9 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did
more evil than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his
people, but they didn’t listen.
11 Therefore Yahweh brought on them
the captains of the army of the king of
Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains,
bound him with fetters, and carried him to
Babylon.
12 When he was in distress, he begged
Yahweh his God, and humbled himself
greatly before the God of his fathers.
13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated byhim, andheardhis supplication,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into
his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that
Yahweh was God.
14 Now after this, he built an outer wall
to David’s city on the west side of Gihon, in
the valley, even to the entrance at the fish
gate. He encircled Ophel withit, andraised
it up to a very great height; and he put
valiant captains in all the fortified cities of
Judah.
15 He took away the foreign gods and
the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the
altars that he had built in the mountain of
Yahweh’s house and in Jerusalem, and cast
them out of the city. 16 He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices
of peace offerings and of thanks giving on it, and commanded Judah
to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed
in the high places, but only to Yahweh their
God.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh,
and his prayer to his God, and the words
of the seers who spoke to him in the name
of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they
are written among the acts of the kings of
Israel.
19 His prayer also, and how God listened
to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high
places and set up the Asherah poles and
the engraved images before he humbled
himself: behold, they are written in the
history of Hozai.†
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in his own house; and
Amon his son reigned in his place.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when
he began to reign; and he reigned two
years in Jerusalem.
22 He did that which was evil inYahweh’s
sight, as did Manasseh his father; and
Amonsacrificed to allthe engraved images
which Manasseh his father had made, and
served them.
23 He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled
himself; but this same Amon trespassed
more and more.
24 His servants conspired against him,
and put him to death in his own house.
25 But the people of the land killed all
those who had conspired against King
Amon; and the people of the land made
Josiah his son king in his place.