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2 Chronicles 33:1-25 — Manasseh and Amon Kings of Judah

2Chr.33.1-25

¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ²He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel. ³He rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down, raised up altars for the Baals, made Asherah poles, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them. ⁴He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem my name shall be forever.” ⁵He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. ⁶He made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, practiced soothsaying and divination and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. ⁷He set the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God 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 longer remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I commanded them, all the law and the statutes and the judgments given through Moses." ⁹So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the people of Israel. ¹⁰The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not listen. ¹¹So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and took him to Babylon. ¹²In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³He prayed to him, and he let himself be moved by his plea, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom . Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God. ¹⁴After this he built an outer wall for the City of David, west of Gihon in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he encircled Ophel and made it very high. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. ¹⁵He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city. ¹⁶He rebuilt the altar of the LORD and sacrificed on it peace offerings and thank offerings, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. ¹⁷However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God. ¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are written in the records of the kings of Israel. ¹⁹His prayer, and how God responded to his plea, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the idols before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of Hozai . ²⁰And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house. And Amon his son became king in his place. ²¹Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. ²²He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols that Manasseh his father had made, and he served them. ²³He did not humble himself before the LORD as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; instead, Amon increased his guilt. ²⁴His servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house. ²⁵But the people of the land struck down all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

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4/11/2026

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