2 Chronicles 33:13-23

13 When he prayed to Him, ¹He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ²knew that the LORD was God.

14 Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of ³Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the ⁴Fish Gate; and he encircled the ⁵Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 He also ⁶removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

16 He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed ⁷peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless ⁸the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the LORD their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even ⁹his prayer to his God, and the words of ¹⁰the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of ¹¹Israel.

19 His prayer also and ¹²how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and ¹³the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his place.

Amon Becomes King in Judah

21 ¹⁴Amon was twenty-two * years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

22 He did evil in the sight of the LORD as Manasseh his father ¹⁵had done, and Amon sacrificed to all ¹⁶the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

23 Moreover, he did not humble himself before * the LORD ¹⁷as his father Manasseh had done, but Amon multiplied guilt.

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2 Chronicles 33:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 CHRONICLES 33

This chapter gives an account of the reign of Manasseh, of his idolatries and impieties, 2Ch 33:1-10, of his captivity, humiliation, repentance, and reformation, 2Ch 33:11-17 of his last end, death, and burial, 2Ch 33:18-20 and of the wicked reign of Amon his son, and of his death by his servants, 2Ch 33:21-25.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 17

1. 1 Chronicles 5:20; Ezra 8:23
2. Daniel 4:32
3. 1 Kings 1:33
4. Nehemiah 3:3
5. 2 Chronicles 27:3
6. 2 Chronicles 33:3-7
7. Leviticus 7:11-18
8. 2 Chronicles 32:12
9. 2 Chronicles 33:12, 13
10. 2 Chronicles 33:10
11. 2 Chronicles 21:2
12. 2 Chronicles 33:13
13. 2 Chronicles 33:3
14. 2 Kings 21:19-24
15. 2 Chronicles 33:2-7
16. 2 Chronicles 34:3, 4
17. 2 Chronicles 33:12, 19

Footnotes 2

[a]. Gr reads "seers"
[b]. Lit "humbled himself"