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II Kings Chapter 21

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II Kings

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In the final year of Jehoram the king of Israel, the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V invades and captures the city, and later Tiglath‑Pileser III attacks Judah, taking its king and many people into exile. The chapter records the destruction of Jerusalem and the beginning of the Babylonian exile, which will last for seventy years. The narrative emphasizes the consequences of disobedience to God and the loss of the nation's land.

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(1) Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
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II Kings 20:21I Chronicles 3:13II Chronicles 32:33II Chronicles 33:1II Chronicles 33:2II Chronicles 33:3II Chronicles 33:4II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:6II Chronicles 33:7II Chronicles 33:8II Chronicles 33:9

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II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 33:1I Kings 22:42I Kings 14:21II Kings 14:2II Kings 15:2

(2) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
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II Kings 21:7II Kings 21:16II Kings 16:2II Kings 16:3II Kings 16:4II Kings 22:17II Chronicles 33:2II Chronicles 33:3II Chronicles 33:4Leviticus 18:25Leviticus 18:26Leviticus 18:27

(3) For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
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II Kings 18:4II Kings 18:22II Chronicles 32:12II Chronicles 34:3II Kings 10:18II Kings 10:19II Kings 10:20I Kings 16:31I Kings 16:32I Kings 16:33I Kings 18:21I Kings 18:26

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II Chronicles 33:3II Kings 17:16II Kings 23:5I Kings 16:32Jeremiah 19:5II Kings 11:18

(4) And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
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II Kings 16:10II Kings 16:11II Kings 16:12II Kings 16:13II Kings 16:14II Kings 16:15II Kings 16:16Jeremiah 32:34Exodus 20:24Deuteronomy 12:5II Samuel 7:13I Kings 8:29

(5) And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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II Kings 23:4II Kings 23:6I Kings 6:36I Kings 7:12II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:15Ezekiel 40:28Ezekiel 40:32Ezekiel 40:37Ezekiel 40:47Ezekiel 42:3Ezekiel 43:5

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II Chronicles 33:5II Kings 21:3II Chronicles 33:3II Kings 23:12

(6) And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
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II Kings 16:3II Kings 17:17Leviticus 18:21Leviticus 20:2Leviticus 20:3II Chronicles 28:3II Chronicles 33:6Micah 6:7Leviticus 19:26Leviticus 19:31Deuteronomy 18:10Deuteronomy 18:11

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II Chronicles 33:6Jeremiah 44:9II Kings 17:17Jeremiah 44:3Deuteronomy 32:21II Kings 17:11

(7) And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
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II Kings 23:6II Chronicles 33:7II Chronicles 33:15II Kings 21:4II Kings 23:27II Samuel 7:13I Kings 8:29I Kings 8:44I Kings 9:3I Kings 9:7II Chronicles 7:12II Chronicles 7:16

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Leviticus 26:1II Chronicles 33:7Habakkuk 2:18Judges 17:3Judges 17:4Judges 18:14

(8) Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
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II Kings 18:11II Samuel 7:10I Chronicles 17:9II Chronicles 33:8Leviticus 26:3Leviticus 26:4Leviticus 26:5Leviticus 26:6Leviticus 26:7Leviticus 26:8Leviticus 26:9Leviticus 26:10

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Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(9) But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
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II Chronicles 36:16Ezra 9:10Ezra 9:11Nehemiah 9:26Nehemiah 9:29Nehemiah 9:30Psalms 81:10Daniel 9:6Daniel 9:10Daniel 9:11Luke 13:34John 15:22

(10) And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
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II Chronicles 33:10II Chronicles 36:15Nehemiah 9:26Nehemiah 9:30Matthew 23:34Matthew 23:35Matthew 23:36Matthew 23:37

(11) Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
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II Kings 23:26II Kings 23:27II Kings 24:3II Kings 24:4Jeremiah 15:4II Kings 21:9I Kings 21:26Ezekiel 16:3Ezekiel 16:45I Kings 14:16I Kings 15:30I Kings 16:19

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Nehemiah 12:39John 3:31

(12) Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
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II Kings 22:16Daniel 9:12Micah 3:12I Samuel 3:11Isaiah 28:16Jeremiah 19:3Amos 3:2Matthew 24:21Matthew 24:22Luke 23:28Luke 23:29Revelation 6:15

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Jeremiah 19:3Matthew 5:22I Samuel 3:11

(13) And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
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II Kings 17:6Isaiah 10:22Isaiah 28:17Isaiah 34:11Lamentations 2:8Ezekiel 23:31Ezekiel 23:32Ezekiel 23:33Ezekiel 23:34Amos 7:7Amos 7:8Zechariah 1:16

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Isaiah 28:10Isaiah 28:13I Kings 16:29II Kings 10:1II Kings 10:17II Chronicles 18:2

(14) And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
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Deuteronomy 31:17II Chronicles 15:2Psalms 37:28Psalms 89:38Psalms 89:39Psalms 89:40Psalms 89:41Psalms 89:42Psalms 89:43Psalms 89:44Psalms 89:45Jeremiah 12:7

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Deuteronomy 20:14Joshua 7:12Joshua 21:44Judges 2:14I Samuel 30:26Nehemiah 9:27

(15) Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
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Deuteronomy 9:21Deuteronomy 31:27Deuteronomy 31:29Judges 2:11Judges 2:12Judges 2:13Psalms 106:34Psalms 106:35Psalms 106:36Psalms 106:37Psalms 106:38Psalms 106:39

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Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:21

(16) Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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II Kings 24:3II Kings 24:4Numbers 35:33Deuteronomy 21:8Deuteronomy 21:9Jeremiah 2:34Jeremiah 7:6Jeremiah 15:4Jeremiah 19:4Matthew 23:30Matthew 23:31Matthew 27:6

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II Kings 24:4Leviticus 23:38Daniel 12:13

(17) Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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II Kings 20:20II Kings 20:21II Chronicles 33:1II Chronicles 33:2II Chronicles 33:3II Chronicles 33:4II Chronicles 33:5II Chronicles 33:6II Chronicles 33:7II Chronicles 33:8II Chronicles 33:9II Chronicles 33:10

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I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19I Kings 14:29I Kings 15:7I Kings 15:23I Kings 15:31

(18) And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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II Chronicles 21:20II Chronicles 24:16II Chronicles 24:25II Chronicles 28:27II Chronicles 32:33II Chronicles 33:20Jeremiah 22:19

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II Kings 21:26II Chronicles 33:20II Chronicles 32:33Genesis 3:8Song of Solomon 4:16Ezekiel 31:8

(19) Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
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I Chronicles 3:14II Chronicles 33:21II Chronicles 33:22II Chronicles 33:23Matthew 1:10II Kings 15:23I Kings 15:25I Kings 16:8I Kings 22:51

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II Kings 18:2II Chronicles 20:31II Chronicles 29:1I Kings 22:42II Kings 8:26II Kings 14:2

(20) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
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II Kings 21:2II Kings 21:3II Kings 21:4II Kings 21:5II Kings 21:6II Kings 21:7Numbers 32:14II Chronicles 33:22II Chronicles 33:23Matthew 23:32Acts 7:51

(21) And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
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Jeremiah 8:2Jeremiah 16:11II Corinthians 12:18Judges 10:6I Kings 11:33Ezekiel 20:16

(22) And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
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II Kings 22:17Deuteronomy 32:15I Kings 11:33I Chronicles 28:9Jeremiah 2:13Jonah 2:8

(23) And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
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II Kings 12:20II Kings 14:19II Kings 15:25II Kings 15:30I Kings 15:27I Kings 16:9II Chronicles 33:24II Chronicles 33:25

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II Kings 10:9II Kings 21:24II Chronicles 33:25

(24) And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
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II Kings 14:5II Kings 11:17II Kings 14:21I Samuel 11:15II Samuel 5:3I Kings 12:1I Kings 12:20II Chronicles 22:1II Chronicles 26:1II Chronicles 33:25

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II Chronicles 33:25II Kings 10:9II Kings 15:10II Kings 21:23

(25) Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
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II Kings 21:17II Kings 20:20

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I Kings 11:41I Kings 14:19I Kings 14:29I Kings 15:7I Kings 15:23I Kings 15:31

(26) And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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I Kings 13:5Matthew 1:10

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II Kings 21:18II Kings 23:30John 19:41Genesis 49:31I Kings 11:43I Kings 13:31

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