5/22/2023 0 Comments The stinkful kingHe sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ‘In Jerusalem I will put my Name.’ In the two courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them. He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had destroyed he also erected altars to Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. “Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. The first five verses of 2 Kings 21 are a frank and stunning account of Manasseh’s apostasy: Manasseh, a wicked king, reversed these reforms and did much worse. Hezekiah had undertaken reforms in Judah to rid the land of idolatry. Manasseh was king of the southern kingdom of Judah and the son of the godly king Hezekiah. The story of King Manasseh is told in 2 Kings 21:1–18 and 2 Chronicles 32:33–33:20, and he is also mentioned briefly in Jeremiah 15:4.
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