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2 Chronicles 33: Manasseh’s Rebellion – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | Worship of Idols, Divine Punishment, and Manasseh’s Repentance
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2 CHRONICLES 33 (NIV)
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in
Jerusalem fifty-five years.
2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following
the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the
Israelites.
3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished;
he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to
all the starry hosts and worshiped them.
4 He built altars in the temple of
the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem
forever.”
5 In both courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all
the starry hosts.
6 He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of
Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted
mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his
anger.
7 He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple, of which God had
said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which
I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.
8 I
will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to
your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them
concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses.”
9 But
Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more
evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
11
So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria,
who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze
shackles and took him to Babylon.
12 In his distress he sought the favor of
the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
13 And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened
to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.
14 Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon
spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling
the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military
commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.
15 He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the
Lord, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in
Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city.
16 Then he restored the altar of
the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and
told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.
17 The people, however,
continued to sacrifice at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
18 The other events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and
the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.
19 His prayer and how God
was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the
sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he
humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.
20 Manasseh
rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace. And Amon his son
succeeded him as king.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in
Jerusalem two years.
22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father
Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped and offered sacrifices to all the idols
Manasseh had made.
23 But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble
himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.
24 Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
25 Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon,
and they made Josiah his son king in his place.