2 Chronicles 33 (NET)

2 Chronicles 33:1¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:1-181 Chr 3:132 Chr 32:33Eccl 10:16Isa 3:12Isa 3:4Matt 1:102 Chr 34:1-2

2 Chronicles 33:2²He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:3Deut 18:92 Chr 36:142 Kgs 17:112 Kgs 17:152 Kgs 21:22 Kgs 21:9Deut 12:31Deut 18:14Ezek 11:12

2 Chronicles 33:3³He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 16:21Deut 17:32 Chr 31:12 Chr 30:142 Kgs 18:42 Kgs 23:5-6Eccl 9:18Jer 19:13Zeph 1:51 Kgs 14:23

2 Chronicles 33:4⁴He built altars in the Lord ’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 7:161 Kgs 8:292 Chr 6:6Deut 12:111 Kgs 9:32 Chr 32:192 Chr 33:152 Chr 34:3-42 Kgs 21:4-5Jer 7:30

2 Chronicles 33:5⁵In the two courtyards of the Lord ’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 4:9Ezek 8:7-18Jer 32:34-35

2 Chronicles 33:6⁶He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 28:32 Kgs 21:6Lev 18:21Lev 19:26Lev 19:31Lev 20:61 Chr 10:13Isa 47:9-12Isa 8:19Jer 7:31-32

2 Chronicles 33:7⁷He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:42 Chr 7:161 Kgs 11:131 Kgs 11:321 Kgs 8:291 Kgs 8:441 Kgs 8:482 Chr 33:152 Chr 6:62 Kgs 21:7-8

2 Chronicles 33:8⁸I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given through Moses.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:101 Chr 17:92 Chr 7:17-22Deut 27:26-28:14Deut 30:15-20Deut 4:40Deut 5:1Deut 5:31-6:1Deut 8:1Ezek 33:25-26

2 Chronicles 33:9⁹But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:22 Kgs 24:3-4Prov 29:121 Kgs 14:161 Kgs 15:262 Kgs 17:8-112 Kgs 21:162 Kgs 21:9-112 Kgs 23:26Deut 2:21

2 Chronicles 33:10¹⁰The Lord confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 36:15-16Acts 7:51-52Jer 25:4-7Jer 44:4-5Neh 9:29-30Zech 1:4

2 Chronicles 33:11¹¹So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:362 Chr 36:61 Sam 13:62 Kgs 23:332 Kgs 25:6Isa 10:8Isa 36:9Isa 5:26-30Isa 7:18-20Job 36:8-11

2 Chronicles 33:12¹²In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 10:32 Chr 32:26Ps 50:15Luke 18:14-151 Pet 5:5-6Acts 9:11Deut 4:30-31Hos 5:15Jas 4:102 Chr 28:22

2 Chronicles 33:13¹³When he prayed to the Lord, the Lord responded to him and answered favorably his cry for mercy. The Lord brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:20Dan 4:25Ezra 8:23Jer 29:12-13Matt 6:33Matt 7:7-8Jer 24:7Dan 4:34-35Isa 55:6-9Prov 21:1

2 Chronicles 33:14¹⁴After this Manasseh built up the outer wall of the City of David on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 1:332 Chr 27:3Neh 3:3Neh 12:39Zeph 1:101 Kgs 1:452 Chr 11:11-122 Chr 17:192 Chr 32:302 Chr 32:5

2 Chronicles 33:15¹⁵He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord ’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord ’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:3-72 Kgs 21:7Ezek 18:20-22Hos 14:1-3Isa 2:17-21Matt 3:8

2 Chronicles 33:16¹⁶He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:302 Chr 14:42 Chr 29:182 Chr 30:122 Chr 33:9Gen 18:19Lev 3:1-17Lev 7:11-18Luke 22:32

2 Chronicles 33:17¹⁷However, the people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:121 Kgs 22:432 Chr 15:172 Kgs 15:4

2 Chronicles 33:18¹⁸The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:192 Chr 33:12-132 Chr 20:34Amos 7:12Isa 30:101 Kgs 14:191 Kgs 15:311 Sam 9:92 Chr 32:322 Chr 33:10

2 Chronicles 33:19¹⁹The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 1:9Acts 9:11Dan 5:22Jer 44:10Rom 5:162 Chr 36:12Prov 15:8Ps 119:672 Chr 30:112 Chr 33:1-13

2 Chronicles 33:20²⁰Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 1:101 Chr 3:142 Chr 32:332 Kgs 21:18-25

2 Chronicles 33:21²¹Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:12 Kgs 21:19-24Jas 4:13-15Luke 12:19-20

2 Chronicles 33:22²²He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done. Amon offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:1-102 Chr 34:3-42 Kgs 21:1-112 Kgs 21:20Ezek 20:18Isa 44:13-20

2 Chronicles 33:23²³He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:122 Chr 33:192 Chr 28:222 Chr 33:12 Tim 3:13Jer 7:26Jer 8:12

2 Chronicles 33:24²⁴His servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 24:25-262 Chr 25:27-282 Kgs 21:23-262 Sam 4:5-12Ps 55:23Rom 11:22

2 Chronicles 33:25²⁵The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 26:12 Chr 34:12 Chr 36:1Gen 9:5-6Num 35:31Num 35:33