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Manasseh's Idolatry, Captivity, Repentance, and Restoration

2 Chronicles 33:1-20

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Chapter 33
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations that the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3 He returned and built the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down. He raised up altars for the Baals, made Asherahs, bowed down to all the heavenly host, and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, which the LORD said, "In Jerusalem my name will be forever." 5 He built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. 6 He made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. He practiced divination and augury and sorcery. He made many ghosts and familiar spirits to do evil in the eyes of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 He put the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God—of the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever." 8 And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from upon the ground that I have appointed for your fathers, only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the Torah and the statutes and the judgments by the hand of Moses. 9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray to do evil beyond the nations that the LORD had exterminated from before the sons of Israel. 10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they did not pay heed. 11 And the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army who were to the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with bronze fetters and brought him to Babel. 12 And when he was distressed, he made a portion-offering before the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he entreated him, and he heard his supplication, and he restored him to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that the LORD, he is God. 14 And after this he built an outer wall for the City of David west of Gihon in the stream, to the entrance of the Gate of the Fishes. And he encircled the Ophel and exalted it greatly, and he set commanders of power in all the fortified cities in Judah. 15 And he removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. 16 And he built the altar of the LORD and sacrificed on it peace offerings and thank offerings, and he said to Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. 17 But still the people were sacrificing on the high places, only to the LORD their God. 18 The rest of the words of Manasseh and his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel—they are written in the words of the kings of Israel. 19 And his prayer and his entreaty to him and all his sin and his trespass and the places that he built in them high places and he set up the Asherim and the idols/statues before the face of Canaan they are written on the words of the seer. 20 And Manasseh lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and his son Ammon reigned in his place.