2 Chronicles 33:1

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 33:1

Manasseh was twelve years old
From hence to the end of ( 2 Chronicles 33:9 ) the same things are recorded, almost word for word, as in ( 2 Kings 21:1-9 ) , see the notes there. (See Gill on 2 Kings 21:1).

2 Chronicles 33:1 In-Context

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 In God's opinion he was a bad king - an evil king. He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that had been scoured from the country when God dispossessed the pagan nations in favor of the children of Israel.

3 He rebuilt the sex-and-religion shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down, he built altars and phallic images for the sex god Baal and the sex goddess Asherah and worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations.

4 He built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of God,

5 the very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by God's decree to God's Name ("in Jerusalem I place my Name").