II Kings Chapter 21

Exposé | Moral

Idol Worship – Worship Of Other G-ds

1-in-3, 3-in-1, Triune, Trinity, G-d the Son, no matter how you will insist it’s 1, it is clearly not.

For none of these falsehood G-d ever told, spoken or revealed to His servants the prophets in the whole of the Hebrew Scripture (Old Testament).

Melachim | Kings

“Manasseh, King Of Judah”

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzi-bah.
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He did what was evil in the eyes of Hashem, like the abominations of the nations that Hashem had driven out before the Children of Israel.
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He passed his son through the fire, practiced astrology and read omens, and performed necromancy and conjured up spirits; he was profuse in doing what is evil in the eyes of Hashem, to anger [Him].
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The Asherah idol that he had made he placed in the Temple, concerning which Hashem said to David and to his son Solomon, “In This Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel, I shall place My Name forever.
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And I shall no longer cause the feet of Israel to wander from the land that I have given to their forefathers — provided they are careful to act according to all that I have commanded them, and to the entire Torah that My servant Moses commanded them.”
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But they did not listen; Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations that Hashem had destroyed from before the Children of Israel.
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Hashem spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, he did worse that all that the Amorite who was before him had done, and he caused even Judah to sin with his idols —
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… I will wipe out Jerusalem, as one would wipe a plate thoroughly, and then turn it upside down.
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because they did what is evil in My eyes, and angered Me, from the day that their forefathers left Egypt and to this day.”
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Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem [from] end to end [with it]; aside from his sin of causing Judah to sin, to do what was evil in the eyes of Hashem.
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Manasseh lay with his forefathers and was buried in the garden of his palace. In the garden of Uzza. His son Amon reigned in his place.
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He did what was evil in the eyes of Hashem, as Manasseh his father had done.
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He went the same way as his father had gone; he worshiped the idols that his fathers had worshiped and prostrated himself to them.
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He forsook Hashem, the God of his forefathers, and he did not follow the way of Hashem.
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Amon’s servants conspired against him, and they killed the king in his palace, but the people of the land struck down all the conspirators against king Amon; the people of the land crowned Josiah his son in his place.
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1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years, and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
2 And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord; like the abominations of the nations that the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.
3 And he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars to the Baal, and he made an asherah as Ahab the king of Israel had made, and he prostrated himself to the entire host of the heaven, and he worshipped them.
4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will establish My Name.”
5 And he built altars for the entire host of Heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
6 And he passed his son through fire; he practiced soothsaying and divination, and he consulted necromancers and those divine by the Jidoa bone; he did much that was evil in the eyes of the Lord, to provoke [Him].
7 He placed the graven image of the asherah that he made, in the house concerning which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, will I establish My Name forever.
8 And I will not continue to cause Israel’s feet to wander from the land that I have given their forefathers; if they will but observe to act in accordance with all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that Moses My servant commanded them.”
9 But they did not obey, and Manasseh led them astray to do what was evil, more than the nations that the Lord had destroyed from before the children of Israel.
10 And the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
11 “Since Manasseh has committed these abominations, he has done more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him did, and he caused Judah to sin with his idols.
12 Therefore, has the Lord God of Israel said, ‘Behold I bring calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, concerning which the two ears of all those who hear it will tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, he wipes and turns it upside down.
14 And I will forsake the remnant of My heritage, and I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies, and they will become plunder and prey for all their enemies.
15 Since they did what was evil in My eyes, and they constantly provoked Me since the day that their forefathers left Egypt until this day.’ “
16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, besides his sin that he caused Judah to commit, to do what was evil in the eyes of the Lord.
17 And the rest of the events of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he sinned, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
18 And Manasseh slept with his forefathers and was buried in the garden of his house in the garden of Uzza, and his son Amon reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem, and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter to Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.
21 And he went in all the ways that his father had gone, and he worshipped pagan deities that his father had worshipped, and he prostrated himself to them.
22 And he forsook the Lord God of his forefathers and did not follow the Lord’s way.
23 And Amon’s servants conspired against him and assassinated the king in his palace.
24 And the people of the land slew all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land appointed his son Josiah in his stead.
25 And the rest of the deeds of Amon that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.
26 And he buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his stead.