2 Kings 21 (NET)

2 Kings 21:1¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hephzibah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 62:41 Chr 3:132 Chr 32:33-33:92 Kgs 20:21Matt 1:10Prov 5:19

2 Kings 21:2²He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:2-42 Chr 36:142 Kgs 16:2-42 Kgs 21:162 Kgs 21:72 Kgs 22:17Deut 12:31Ezek 16:51Jer 15:4Lev 18:25-29

2 Kings 21:3³He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:162 Kgs 18:41 Kgs 16:31-33Deut 17:3Deut 4:191 Kgs 18:211 Kgs 18:262 Chr 32:122 Chr 33:3-52 Chr 34:3

2 Kings 21:4⁴He built altars in the Lord ’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:292 Sam 7:13Jer 32:341 Kgs 9:32 Kgs 16:10-16Deut 12:5Exod 20:24Ps 132:13-14Ps 78:68-69

2 Kings 21:5⁵In 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:1 Kgs 7:121 Kgs 6:362 Kgs 23:122 Kgs 23:42 Chr 33:152 Chr 33:52 Kgs 23:6Ezek 40:28Ezek 40:32Ezek 40:37

2 Kings 21:6⁶He passed his son through the fire and practiced divination and omen reading. 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, provoking him to anger.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:17Lev 18:21Lev 19:312 Kgs 16:3Lev 19:262 Chr 33:6Deut 18:10-141 Chr 10:132 Chr 28:32 Kgs 24:3-4

2 Kings 21:7⁷He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord 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 7:161 Kgs 8:291 Kgs 9:32 Chr 7:122 Sam 7:132 Chr 33:152 Chr 33:72 Chr 7:202 Kgs 21:42 Kgs 23:27

2 Kings 21:8⁸I 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 my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 7:101 Chr 17:92 Chr 33:82 Kgs 18:11-12Deut 28:1-14Deut 5:28-29Ezek 22:2-16Ezek 33:25-29Isa 1:19Jer 17:20-27

2 Kings 21:9⁹But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 29:121 Kgs 14:162 Chr 33:92 Chr 36:16Dan 9:10-11Dan 9:6Ezek 16:51-52Hos 5:11Jas 4:17John 15:22

2 Kings 21:10¹⁰So the Lord announced through his servants the prophets:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:102 Chr 36:15Matt 23:34-37Neh 9:26Neh 9:30

2 Kings 21:11¹¹“King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:262 Kgs 24:3-42 Kgs 21:9Jer 15:41 Kgs 14:161 Kgs 15:301 Kgs 16:192 Kgs 21:162 Kgs 21:22 Kgs 21:21

2 Kings 21:12¹²So this is what the Lord God of Israel has said, ‘I am about to bring disaster on Jerusalem and Judah. The news will reverberate in the ears of those who hear about it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 19:31 Sam 3:112 Kgs 22:16Amos 3:2Dan 9:12Mic 3:12Isa 28:16Luke 23:28-29Matt 24:21-22Rev 6:15-17

2 Kings 21:13¹³I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 7:7-8Lam 2:8Isa 34:112 Kgs 10:11Ezek 23:31-34Isa 10:22Isa 28:17Jer 25:91 Kgs 14:102 Kgs 17:6

2 Kings 21:14¹⁴I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 23:332 Kgs 19:4Ps 89:38-452 Chr 15:22 Chr 36:16-172 Kgs 19:30-312 Kgs 24:2Amos 5:2Deut 28:25Deut 28:31-33

2 Kings 21:15¹⁵because they have done evil in my sight and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:5-11Deut 31:27Deut 31:29Deut 9:21Ezek 16:15-22Ezek 20:13Ezek 20:21Ezek 20:30Ezek 20:4Ezek 23:3

2 Kings 21:16¹⁶Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:92 Kgs 21:11Num 35:331 Kgs 14:15-162 Kgs 21:72 Kgs 24:3-4Deut 21:8-9Exod 32:21Heb 11:37Jer 15:4

2 Kings 21:17¹⁷The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign and all his accomplishments, as well as the sinful acts he committed, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:1-202 Kgs 20:20-21

2 Kings 21:18¹⁸Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzzah, and his son Amon replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:202 Kgs 21:262 Chr 21:202 Chr 24:162 Chr 24:252 Chr 28:272 Chr 32:33Jer 22:19

2 Kings 21:19¹⁹Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. His mother was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:21-231 Chr 3:141 Kgs 15:251 Kgs 16:81 Kgs 22:512 Kgs 15:23Matt 1:10

2 Kings 21:20²⁰He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 33:22-232 Kgs 21:112 Kgs 21:2-7Acts 7:51Matt 23:32Num 32:14

2 Kings 21:21²¹He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols that his father had worshiped.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Kings 21:22²²He abandoned the Lord, God of his ancestors, and did not follow the Lord ’s instructions.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:332 Kgs 22:171 Chr 28:9Deut 32:15Jer 2:13Jonah 2:8

2 Kings 21:23²³Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 12:202 Chr 33:24-252 Kgs 14:191 Kgs 15:271 Kgs 16:92 Kgs 15:252 Kgs 15:30

2 Kings 21:24²⁴The people of the land executed all those 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 Kgs 14:51 Kgs 12:11 Kgs 12:201 Sam 11:152 Chr 22:12 Chr 26:12 Chr 33:252 Kgs 11:172 Kgs 14:212 Sam 5:3

2 Kings 21:25²⁵The rest of Amon’s accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:202 Kgs 21:17

2 Kings 21:26²⁶He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and his son Josiah replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 21:18Matt 1:101 Kgs 13:5