Manasseh becomes king at twelve and reigns 55 years, the longest in Judah. He undoes everything his father did, builds altars to Baal and the stars inside the temple, practices sorcery and burns his own son. He fills Jerusalem with innocent blood. God says, I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl.
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2And he did evil in the sight of Yahweh by following the abominations of the nations that Yahweh had driven out before the Israelites.3For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
2KI 21:1[NOTE]MANASSEH. See the Big Question pages Manasseh.
2KI 21:2[DEMONIC]Manasseh rebuilds high places and altars for Baal and the stars
4Manasseh also built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said,“In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”5In both courtyards of the house of Yahweh, he built altars to all the host of heaven.6He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger.
2KI 21:6[DEMONIC]Manasseh practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, consulted mediums
7Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which Yahweh had said to David and his son Solomon,“In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.8I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
2KI 21:7[DEMONIC]Manasseh sets up an Asherah pole in God's temple
9But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that Yahweh had destroyed before the Israelites.
10And Yahweh spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, 11“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,12this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says:‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
2KI 21:11[DEMONIC]Manasseh's idols cause Judah to sin
2KI 21:12[PROPHECY]I am bringing calamity on Jerusalem and Judah; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down → Fulfilled in Babylonian destruction 586 BC
13I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.14So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,15because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
16Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of Yahweh.
17As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
18And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
Amon Reigns in Judah// 2 Chronicles 33:21–25
19Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah. 20And he did evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his father Manasseh had done. 21He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.22He abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.
2KI 21:21[DEMONIC]Amon worships the idols his father served
23Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace. 24But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
25As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 26And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.
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