2 Chronicles 33:19 Cross References - Leeser

¹⁹ His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sins and his faithlessness, and the places whereon he built high-places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written in the history of Chozai.

¹¹ Nevertheless some men of Asher and Menasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

¹ Twelve years old was Manasseh when he became king, and fifty and five years did he reign in Jerusalem. ² And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel. ³ And he built again the high-places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he erected altars for the Be’alim, and made Asheroth, and bowed himself down to all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom: he also observed times, and employed enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with those of a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he did much that is evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke him to anger. ⁷ And he placed a carved image of the idol which 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 made choice of out of all the tribes of Israel, will I place my name for ever. ⁸ Nor will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers; but only if they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. ⁹ But Menasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do worse than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the children of Israel. ¹⁰ And the Lord spoke to Menasseh, and to his people; but they listened not. ¹¹ Wherefore the Lord brought over them the captains of the army belonging to the king of Assyria: and they took Menasseh prisoner with chains, and bound him with fetters, and led him off to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in distress, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ And he prayed unto him, and he permitted himself to be entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem, unto his kingdom. Then did Menasseh feel conscious that the Lord is indeed the true God.

¹² And he did what is evil in the eyes of the Lord his God: he humbled himself not before Jeremiah the prophet, according to the order of the Lord.

⁶⁷ Before I was afflicted I was in error; but now I observe thy saying.

⁷¹ It is well for me that I have been afflicted, in order that I might learn thy statutes.

⁷⁵ I know, O Lord, that thy decrees are righteous, and that in faithfulness thou hast afflicted me.

⁸ The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of the Lord: but, the prayer of the upright obtaineth his favor.

¹⁰ They are not humbled even up to this day, and they are not afraid, and they walk not in my law, nor in my statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers.

²² And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this;