2 Chronicles 33:6-16

6 ¹He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom *; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and ²dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.

7 Then he put ³the 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, "⁴In 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 ⁵which 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 ⁶they paid no attention.

11 ⁷Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, ⁸bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.

12 When ⁹he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and ¹⁰humbled himself greatly before * the God of his fathers.

13 When he prayed to Him, ¹¹He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ¹²knew that the LORD was God.

14 Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of ¹³Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the ¹⁴Fish Gate; and he encircled the ¹⁵Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 He also ¹⁶removed 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 ¹⁷peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

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2 Chronicles 33:6-16 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 28:3
2. Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:27
3. 2 Chronicles 33:15
4. 1 Kings 9:3-5; 2 Chronicles 7:16; 2 Chronicles 33:4
5. 2 Samuel 7:10
6. Nehemiah 9:29; Jeremiah 25:4
7. Deuteronomy 28:36
8. 2 Chronicles 36:6
9. Psalms 118:5; Psalms 120:1; Psalms 130:1, 2
10. 2 Chronicles 32:26
11. 1 Chronicles 5:20; Ezra 8:23
12. Daniel 4:32
13. 1 Kings 1:33
14. Nehemiah 3:3
15. 2 Chronicles 27:3
16. 2 Chronicles 33:3-7
17. Leviticus 7:11-18

Footnotes 1

[a]. I.e. thongs put through the nose