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palace of the king of Babylon.
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Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the L
ORD
which thou hast spoken. And he said,
Is it
not
good,
if peace and truth be in my days?
20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit,
and brought water into the city,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah?
21
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
CHAPTER KINGS 21
Manasseh
was
twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
And his mother’s name
was
Hephzi-bah.
2
And he did
that which was
evil in the sight of the L
ORD
,
after the abominations of the heathen, whom the L
ORD
cast out before the children of Israel.
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.
4
And he built altars in the house of the L
ORD
, of which the L
ORD
said, In Jerusalem
will I put my name.
5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house
of the L
ORD
.
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 L
ORD
,
to provoke
him
to anger.
7
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,
of which the L
ORD
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:
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.
9
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did
the nations whom the L
ORD
destroyed before the children of Israel.
10
And the L
ORD
spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
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:
12
Therefore thus saith the L
ORD
God
of Israel, Behold, I
am
bringing
such
evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it,
both his ears shall tingle.
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.
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;
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.
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 L
ORD
.
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