Book 39 : KETUVIM - 2 CHRONICLES - Chapter 033
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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and
he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of HaShem,
after the abominations of the nations, whom HaShem cast out before the children
of Israel
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For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made
Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them
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And he built altars in the house of HaShem, whereof HaShem
said: 'In Jerusalem shall My name be for ever.
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two
courts of the house of HaShem
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He also made his children to pass through the fire in the
valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised soothsaying, and used
enchantments, and practised sorcery, and appointed them that divined by a ghost
or a familiar spirit; he wrought much evil in the sight of HaShem, to provoke
Him
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And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made,
in the house of G-d, of which G-d said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,
will I put My name for ever
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neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off
the land which I have appointed for your fathers; if only they will observe to
do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the
ordinances by the hand of Moses.
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And Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to
err, so that they did evil more than did the nations, whom HaShem destroyed
before the children of Israel
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And HaShem spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they
gave no heed
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Wherefore HaShem brought upon them the captains of the
host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, and bound him with
fetters, and carried him to Babylon
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And when he was in distress, he besought HaShem his G-d,
and humbled himself greatly before the G-d of his fathers
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And he prayed unto Him; and He was entreated of him, and
heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that HaShem He was G-d
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Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of
David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the
fish gate; and he compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height;
and he put captains of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah
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And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the
house of HaShem, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house
of HaShem, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city
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And he built up the altar of HaShem, and offered thereon
sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve
HaShem, the G-d of Israel
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Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high
places, but only unto HaShem their G-d
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto
his G-d, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of HaShem, the
G-d of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel
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His prayer also, and how G-d was entreated of him, and all
his sin and his transgression, and the places wherein he built high places, and
set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself; behold,
they are written in the history of the seers
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So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead
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Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem
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And he did that which was evil in the sight of HaShem, as
did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which
Manasseh his father had made, and served them
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And he humbled not himself before HaShem, as Manasseh his
father had humbled himself; but this same Amon became guilty more and more
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And his servants conspired against him, and put him to
death in his own house
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But 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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