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2 Kings 21
Book of Kings
2 Kings 21:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi–bah.
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Manasseh = forgetting
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He named him Manasseh, because God had made
Hezekiah forget his troubles.
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Genesis 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the
firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made
me forget all my toil, and all my father's
house.
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A sad name for him who became the worst of
Judah's kings.
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His name appears second in a list of kings who
brought gifts to Esar-haddon.
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Twelve years = Therefore not born till the third
of Hezekiah's fifteen added years.
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Hephzi-bah = my delight is in her.
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A prophecy, given at the time of Hezekiah, fore
telling a happier time; even the "good" of.
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Isaiah 62:4 Thou shalt no more be termed
Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be
termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi–bah,
and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in
thee, and thy land shall be married.
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.
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 Lord, of which the Lord 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 Lord.
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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Pass through the fire = The name of Moloch was
common at this time
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Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the
host of heaven upon the
housetops; and them that worship and that swear
by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
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2 Kings 23:10 And he defiled Topheth,
which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom,
that no man might make his son or his daughter
to pass through the fire to Molech.
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As Ahaz had done
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2 Kings 16:3 But he walked in the way of
the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to
pass through the fire, according to the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast
out from before the children of Israel.
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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Manasseh set a graven image of the grove that he
had made in the house of God
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 Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
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Manasseh seduced them to do more evil
10 And the Lord 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:
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Jeremiah 15:4 And I will cause them to be
removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because
of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah,
for that which he did in Jerusalem.
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.
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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God said, I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth
a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
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I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria
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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I will deliver them into the hand of 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 Lord.
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Manasseh seduced the people into doing evil
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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2 Chron 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he
besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself
greatly before the God of his fathers,
13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of
him, and heard his supplication, and brought him
again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
14 Now after this he built a wall without the
city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the
valley, even to the entering in at the fish
gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it
up a very great height, and put captains of war
in all the fenced cities of Judah.
15 And he took away the strange gods, and the
idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the
altars that he had built in the mount of the
house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast
them out of the city.
16 And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and
sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank
offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord
God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still
in the high places, yet unto the Lord their God
only.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his
prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers
that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of
Israel, behold, they are written in the book of
the kings of Israel.
19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of
him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the
places wherein he built high places, and set up
groves and graven images, before he was humbled:
behold, they are written among the sayings of
the seers.
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Manasseh did what was right in his later reign.
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.
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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Amon was twenty and two years old when he began
to reign
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He did that which was evil in the sight of the
Lord,
20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father
Manasseh did.
21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols
that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the
Lord.
23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own
house.
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.
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?
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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Uzza and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be conquered by the
Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly
2520 years later America became a nation on
July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt -
page 25
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