Study it in the app““Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, he has done more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also sin with his idols,”
“Becauseיַעַן אֲשֶׁרManassehמְנַשֶּׁהkingמֶלֶךְof Judahיְהוּדָהhas doneעָשָׂהtheseהָאֵלֶּהabominations,הַתֹּעֵבוֹתhe has done more evilהֵרַעthan allמִכֹּלthatאֲשֶׁרthe Amoritesהָאֱמֹרִיdid,עָשׂוּwhoאֲשֶׁרwere before him,לְפָנָיוand has madeוַJudah alsoגַם אֶת יְהוּדָהsinיַּחֲטִאwith his idols,בְּגִלּוּלָיו
Manasseh
Manasseh, the elder son of Joseph; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and a king of Judah. The name sounds like "make forget".
Where else “menashe” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsJudah
Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah; also the tribe that came from him and its land, and later the southern kingdom; King David came from it. The name sounds like "give thanks". Borne also by other Israelites.
Where else “yehuda” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asa” appearsabomination
Abomination: something that a people or God rejects with disgust, above all idolatry and the practices God forbids; also a custom another people will not tolerate.
Where else “toevot” appearsdo evil
To harm someone; evildoers.
Where else “hera” appearsAmorite
Amorite: one of the main peoples of Canaan before Israel.
Where else “emori” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fanay” appearscause to sin
To lead others into doing wrong.
Where else “yachati” appearsidols
Idols; a scornful word that calls them logs or worthless things.
Where else “gilulay” appearsOther books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
The reign of Manasseh
An account told more fully or more briefly in one of the books.
2 Kings 21:1-18
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hephzibah. 2He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to the abominations of the nations whom YHWH dispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3He built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them. 4He built altars in the house of YHWH, of which YHWH had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.” 5He built altars for all the army of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH. 6He made his son pass through the fire, practiced soothsaying and read omens, and appointed those who call up the dead and spiritists; he did much evil in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke him to anger. 7He put the carved image of the Asherah that he had made in the house of which YHWH had 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, I will put my name forever. 8And I will not again make the foot of Israel wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, only if they are careful to do according to all that I commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.” 9But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do evil more than the nations whom YHWH destroyed before the sons of Israel. 10YHWH spoke through his servants the prophets, saying, 11“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, he has done more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also sin with his idols, 12therefore thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘Look, I am bringing evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, such that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. 13I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, 15because they have done what is evil in my eyes and have been provoking me to anger from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’” 16Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, doing what was evil in the eyes of YHWH. 17The 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? 18Manasseh lay down with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzzah; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to the abominations of the nations whom YHWH had dispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3He built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down; he erected altars for the Baals and made Asherahs, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them. 4He built altars in the house of YHWH, of which YHWH had said, “In Jerusalem my name shall be forever.” 5He built altars for all the army of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH. 6He made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; he practiced soothsaying, read omens, practiced sorcery, and appointed those who call up the dead and spiritists; he multiplied doing evil in the eyes of YHWH, provoking him to anger. 7He put the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of Elohim, of which Elohim had 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, I will put my name forever; 8and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from upon the ground that I established for your fathers, if only they take care to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules, through Moses.” 9Manasseh led astray Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil more than the nations that YHWH had destroyed before the sons of Israel. 10YHWH spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they did not pay attention. 11So YHWH brought against them the commanders of the army that belonged to the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12When he was in distress, he implored the face of YHWH his Elohim, and humbled himself greatly before the Elohim of his fathers. 13He prayed to him, and he let himself be entreated by him, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that YHWH is Elohim. 14After this he built an outer wall for the city of David, west of Gihon, in the brook, and to the entrance at the Fish Gate, and he surrounded the Ophel and raised it very high. He put commanders of forces in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of YHWH, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of YHWH and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city. 16He built the altar of YHWH and sacrificed on it sacrifices of peace and of thanksgiving, and told Judah to serve YHWH, the Elohim of Israel. 17But the people were still sacrificing on the high places, though only to YHWH their Elohim. 18The rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, they are in the acts of the kings of Israel. 19His prayer and how he let himself be entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up the Asherahs and the carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the words of Hozai. 20Manasseh lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
10YHWH spoke through his servants the prophets, saying,
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12therefore thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘Look, I am bringing evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, such that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.
