2 Chronicles 33:10-20

Manasseh's Idolatry Rebuked

10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but ¹they paid no attention.

11 ²Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, ³bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.

12 When ⁴he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and ⁵humbled himself greatly before * the God of his fathers.

13 When he prayed to Him, ⁶He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ⁷knew that the LORD was God.

14 Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of ⁸Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the ⁹Fish Gate; and he encircled the ¹⁰Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 He also ¹¹removed 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 ¹²peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless ¹³the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to the LORD their God.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even ¹⁴his prayer to his God, and the words of ¹⁵the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are among the records of the kings of ¹⁶Israel.

19 His prayer also and ¹⁷how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and ¹⁸the 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.

2 Chronicles 33:10-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. Nehemiah 9:29; Jeremiah 25:4
• 2. Deuteronomy 28:36
• 3. 2 Chronicles 36:6
• 4. Psalms 118:5; Psalms 120:1; Psalms 130:1, 2
• 5. 2 Chronicles 32:26
• 6. 1 Chronicles 5:20; Ezra 8:23
• 7. Daniel 4:32
• 8. 1 Kings 1:33
• 9. Nehemiah 3:3
• 10. 2 Chronicles 27:3
• 11. 2 Chronicles 33:3-7
• 12. Leviticus 7:11-18
• 13. 2 Chronicles 32:12
• 14. 2 Chronicles 33:12, 13
• 15. 2 Chronicles 33:10
• 16. 2 Chronicles 21:2
• 17. 2 Chronicles 33:13
• 18. 2 Chronicles 33:3

Footnotes

• [a]. I.e. thongs put through the nose
• [b]. Gr reads "seers"