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Manassehl was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

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2 Kings 21:1• ¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah. (2 Kings 21:1)

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1-2: Manasseh's wicked reign.

3-10: He sets up idolatry, and will not be admonished.

11: He is carried into Babylon.

12-17: Upon his prayer to God he is released and puts down idolatry.

18-19: His acts.

20: He dying, Amon succeeds him;

21-24: who is slain by his servants.

25: The murderers being slain, Josiah succeeds him.

A.M. 3306-3361.

B.C. 693-643.

Manasseh.

2 Chron. 32:33• ³³And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the highest place of the sepulchres of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead. (2 Chron. 32:33)

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2 Kings 21:1‑18• ¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah.
²And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.
³And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars to Baal and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
⁴And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
⁵And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah.
⁶And he caused his son to pass through the fire, and used magic and divination, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
⁷And he set the graven image of the Asherah that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever;
⁸neither will I any more cause the foot of Israel to wander away from the land that I gave their fathers; if they will only take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
⁹But they would not hearken, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.
¹⁰And Jehovah spoke by his servants the prophets saying,
¹¹Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;
¹²therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
¹³And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down.
¹⁴And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
¹⁵because they have done evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day.
¹⁶And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.
¹⁷And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
¹⁸And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his stead. (2 Kings 21:1‑18)

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1 Chron. 3:13• ¹³Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son, (1 Chron. 3:13)

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Matt. 1:10• ¹⁰and Ezekias begat Manasses, and Manasses begat Amon, and Amon begat Josias, (Matt. 1:10)

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2 Chron. 34:1‑2• ¹Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.
²And he did what was right in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left. (2 Chron. 34:1‑2)

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Eccl. 10:16• ¹⁶Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! (Eccl. 10:16)

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Isa. 3:4,12• ⁴And I will appoint youths as their princes, and children shall rule over them.
¹²As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people! they that guide thee mislead thee, and destroy the way of thy paths. (Isa. 3:4,12)

• Manasseh's history as it is recounted here has considerable importance as an example of the future relations of Jehovah with His people. (“Manasseh, Amon: 2 Chronicles 33” by H.L. Rossier)

• Properly speaking, the symbolic history as Chronicles presents it to us is closed with Manasseh's restoration. Amon succeeds him, beginning anew, so to say, the account of Judah's ruin from the historical point of view. (“Manasseh, Amon: 2 Chronicles 33” by H.L. Rossier)

• Its beginning is described to us (2 Chron. 33:1-9) as the most awful imaginable from the religious point of view; all the more awful in that it followed the days of faithful Hezekiah. (“Manasseh, Amon: 2 Chronicles 33” by H.L. Rossier)

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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.