2 Kings 21:20

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He did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

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  • Num 32:14 : 14 "Now you have risen in place of your ancestors, a brood of sinful men, to increase still further the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
  • 2 Kgs 21:2-7 : 2 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel. 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the LORD, about which the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem I will put My name.' 5 He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the LORD's house. 6 He sacrificed his own son by fire, practiced divination and omen reading, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 7 He placed the carved Asherah image he had made in the house about which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son: 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
  • 2 Kgs 21:11 : 11 'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, acting more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has caused Judah to sin with his idols,'
  • 2 Chr 33:22-23 : 22 He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshipped and served all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made. 23 But he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
  • Matt 23:32 : 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins!
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Chr 33:20-23
    4 verses
    88%

    20Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his house. And his son Amon became king in his place.

    21Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

    22He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshipped and served all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made.

    23But he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; instead, Amon increased his guilt.

  • 2 Kgs 21:1-2
    2 verses
    86%

    1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:21-23
    3 verses
    83%

    21Amon walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served and worshipped the idols his father had worshipped.

    22He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

    23Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.

  • 2 Kgs 21:16-19
    4 verses
    82%

    16Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin he caused Judah to commit, leading them to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

    17As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all he did, including the sin he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

    18Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza. His son Amon reigned in his place.

    19Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

  • 2 Chr 33:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

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

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
    81%

    32He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestors had done.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    80%

    37He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his ancestors had done.

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
    2 verses
    80%

    52Ahaziah son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel for two years.

    53He did evil in the eyes of the LORD and followed the ways of his father, his mother, and Jeroboam son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
    78%

    11'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, acting more wickedly than all the Amorites who were before him, and has caused Judah to sin with his idols,'

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
    77%

    9He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    77%

    19He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    77%

    18He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. During all his days, he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

  • Jer 52:2
    76%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, just as Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
    76%

    24He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had led Israel into sin.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    75%

    9He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his ancestors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which caused Israel to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    75%

    26He acted in the most detestable way by following idols, just as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD drove out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
    74%

    3He did what was right in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    74%

    24He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    74%

    11He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not turn away from all the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin; he continued in them.

  • 2 Kgs 21:9
    74%

    9But they did not listen. Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    74%

    28He did evil in the eyes of the LORD. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

  • 2 Chr 22:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s family, for his mother encouraged him to do evil.

    4He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after his father's death, leading to his ruin.

  • 1 Kgs 15:3
    73%

    3He committed all the sins his father had done before him, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his forefather had been.

  • 2 Kgs 21:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25As for the rest of the acts of Amon and what he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

    26He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
    73%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and followed the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel to sin, and he did not turn away from them.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
    73%

    26He did evil in the sight of the LORD and followed in the ways of his father, committing the same sin his father had caused Israel to commit.

  • 2 Kgs 20:21
    73%

    21Hezekiah rested with his ancestors, and his son Manasseh succeeded him as king.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
    73%

    34Jotham did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Uzziah had done.

  • 2 Chr 21:6
    73%

    6He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married a daughter of Ahab. So he did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
    73%

    3He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his ancestor David had done.

  • 2 Chr 28:1
    73%

    1Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. However, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD like his ancestor David.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    73%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and mother; he removed the pillar of Baal that his father had made.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
    72%

    3He followed the ways of the kings of Israel, and even sacrificed his son in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 20:32
    72%

    32Jehoshaphat followed the path of his father Asa and did not turn from it. He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 33:9
    72%

    9But Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

  • 2 Chr 36:5
    72%

    5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
    72%

    18He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done, for he had married Ahab's daughter. He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD.