2 Chronicles 33:3-13

3 For ¹he rebuilt * the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; ²he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

4 ³He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD had said, "My name shall be ⁴in Jerusalem forever."

5 For he built altars for all the host of heaven in ⁵the two courts of the house of the LORD.

6 ⁶He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom *; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and ⁷dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

7 Then he put ⁸the 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, "⁹In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land ¹⁰which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses."

9 Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before * the sons of Israel.

Manasseh's Idolatry Rebuked

10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but ¹¹they paid no attention.

11 ¹²Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, ¹³bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.

12 When ¹⁴he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and ¹⁵humbled himself greatly before * the God of his fathers.

13 When he prayed to Him, ¹⁶He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ¹⁷knew that the LORD was God.

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2 Chronicles 33:3-13 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. 2 Chronicles 31:1
2. Deuteronomy 16:21; 2 Kings 23:5, 6
3. 2 Chronicles 28:24
4. 2 Samuel 7:13; 2 Chronicles 7:16
5. 2 Chronicles 4:9
6. 2 Chronicles 28:3
7. Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:27
8. 2 Chronicles 33:15
9. 1 Kings 9:3-5; 2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 33:4
10. 2 Samuel 7:10
11. Nehemiah 9:29; Jeremiah 25:4
12. Deuteronomy 28:36
13. 2 Chronicles 36:6
14. Psalms 118:5; Psalms 120:1; Psalms 130:1, 2
15. 2 Chronicles 32:26
16. 1 Chronicles 5:20; Ezra 8:23
17. Daniel 4:32

Footnotes 2

[a]. I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
[b]. I.e. thongs put through the nose