2 Kings 21:20

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

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  • Num 32:14 : 14 And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 21:2-7 : 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. 3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven. 4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord. 6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath. 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.
  • 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 Chr 33:22-23 : 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. 23 He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

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  • 2 Chr 33:20-23
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    20 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

    21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.

    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.

    23 He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

  • 2 Kgs 21:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    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 21:21-23
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    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;

    22 Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

    23 And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.

  • 2 Kgs 21:16-19
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    16 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.

    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.

    19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

  • 2 Chr 33:1-2
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    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 23:32
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    32 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
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    37 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    52 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.

    53 He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
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    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 24:9
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    9 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
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    19 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
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    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 52:2
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    2 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
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    24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
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    9 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
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    26 He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
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    3 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
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    24 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
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    11 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning away from the sin of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do, but he went on with it.

  • 2 Kgs 21:9
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    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.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
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    28 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not turning from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Chr 22:3-4
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    3 He went in the ways of the family of Ahab, for his mother was his teacher in evil-doing.

    4 And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
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    3 And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

  • 2 Kgs 21:25-26
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    25 Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

    26 He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
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    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which he did and made Israel do; he did not keep himself from them.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
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    26 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.

  • 2 Kgs 20:21
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    21 And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers; and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
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    34 And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 21:6
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    6 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
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    3 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord as David his father had done.

  • 2 Chr 28:1
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    1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for sixteen years; he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David his father:

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
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    2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the stone pillar of Baal which his father had made.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
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    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.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
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    32 He went in the ways of his father Asa, not turning away, but doing right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 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 Chr 36:5
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    5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
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    18 He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.