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Summary
'Manasseh's Sin and Repentance 2 Chronicles 33:1-13 Golden Text: Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. Proverbs 14:34

33:1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

33:2. He did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:

33:3. He turned, and built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.

The host of heaven. . .The sun, moon, and stars.

33:4. He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.

33:5. He built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

33:6. He made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.

33:7. He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of which God 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 forever.

33:8. I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the land which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take heed to do what I have commanded them, and all the law, and the ceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.

33:9. So Manasseh seduced Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

33:10. The Lord spoke to His people, and they would not hearken.

33:11. Therefore He brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasseh, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

33:12. After that he was in distress, he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.

33:13. He entreated Him, and besought Him earnestly: and He heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom, and Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

Manasseh's Sin and Repentance; as in 2 Chronicles 33:1-13; illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company Date: 1904