2 Chronicles 33:10
And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.
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2 Chronicles 33:10
And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.
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2 Chronicles 33:12
And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,
2 Chronicles 33:13
And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.
2 Chronicles 33:16
And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:18
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:19
And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.
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2 Chronicles 33:1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 33:2
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 33:3
For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;
2 Chronicles 33:4
And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:5
And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 33:6
More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
2 Chronicles 33:7
And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Chronicles 33:8
And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.
2 Chronicles 33:9
And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
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