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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 reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. (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 chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor 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 reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.
²And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
³For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
⁴And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
⁵And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
⁶And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
⁷And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
⁸Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
⁹But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
¹⁰And the Lord spake 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, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
¹²Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such 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 a man wipeth a dish, 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 that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
¹⁶Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
¹⁷Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that 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 in Jerusalem one and thirty years.
²And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither 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 give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
¹²As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, 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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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