2 Kings 21
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2 Kings 21:10-18

10The Lord said through his servants the prophets,

11“Since King Manasseh of Judah has committed all these detestable acts  — worse evil than the Amorites who preceded him had done — and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin,

12this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.

13I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl — wiping it and turning it upside down.

14I will abandon the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

15because they have done what is evil in my sight and have angered me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’”

16Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

17The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

18Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.

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