2 Kings 21:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:11 : 11 Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,
  • 2 Kgs 24:3-4 : 3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did; 4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.
  • 2 Chr 33:9 : 9 And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
  • Jer 2:34 : 34 And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
  • Jer 7:6 : 6 If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.
  • Jer 19:4 : 4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;
  • Matt 23:30-31 : 30 If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.
  • Matt 27:6 : 6 And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!
  • Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,
  • Exod 32:21 : 21 And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
  • Deut 21:8-9 : 8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death. 9 So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
  • 1 Kgs 14:15-16 : 15 And even now the hand of the Lord has come down on Israel, shaking it like a river-grass in the water; and, uprooting Israel from this good land, which he gave to their fathers, he will send them this way and that on the other side of the River; because they have made for themselves images, moving the Lord to wrath. 16 And he will give Israel up because of the sins which Jeroboam has done and made Israel do.
  • 2 Kgs 21:7 : 7 He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

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  • 2 Kgs 21:17-18
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    82%

    17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    18 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 24:3-4
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    80%

    3 Only by the word of the Lord did this fate come on Judah, to take them away from before his face; because of the sins of Manasseh and all the evil he did;

    4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

  • 2 Kgs 21:9-11
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    77%

    9 But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

    10 And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,

    11 Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

  • 2 Chr 33:9
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    9 And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:15
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    15 Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.

  • 2 Kgs 21:1-2
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    74%

    1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-21
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    73%

    20 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.

    21 He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

  • Jer 19:4
    72%

    4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;

  • 2 Chr 33:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
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    26 But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

  • Jer 15:4
    70%

    4 And I will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and what he did in Jerusalem.

  • Deut 21:8-9
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    70%

    8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

    9 So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 19:10
    69%

    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Joel 3:19
    69%

    19 Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    69%

    18 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • Jer 22:17
    68%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Ps 106:38
    68%

    38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

  • 2 Kgs 23:12
    68%

    12 And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

  • Ezek 16:2
    68%

    2 Son of man, make clear to Jerusalem her disgusting ways,

  • 2 Chr 33:22
    67%

    22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

  • 2 Chr 33:18-19
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    67%

    18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

    19 And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

  • Lam 4:13
    67%

    13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

  • Job 15:16
    67%

    16 How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

  • Deut 19:13
    66%

    13 Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

  • 2 Chr 36:14
    66%

    14 And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

  • Ezek 22:2-3
    2 verses
    66%

    2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.

    3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

  • 2 Chr 21:11
    66%

    11 And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

  • Mic 3:10
    66%

    10 They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    66%

    3 But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and even made his son go through the fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.

  • Ezek 11:6
    66%

    6 You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

  • Ezek 9:7
    66%

    7 And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

  • 1 Kgs 16:26
    66%

    26 Copying all the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and all the sins he did and made Israel do, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath by their foolish ways.

  • 2 Chr 21:13
    66%

    13 But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

  • Jer 44:7
    65%

    7 So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
    65%

    16 These are the words of the Lord: See, I will send evil on this place and on its people, even everything which the king of Judah has been reading in the book;

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
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    31 And the king said, Do as he has said and make an attack on him there, and put his body into the earth; so that you may take away from me and from my family the blood of one put to death by Joab without cause.

  • Isa 1:21
    65%

    21 The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

  • Ezek 36:18
    65%

    18 So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:

  • Ps 94:21
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    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.