2 Kings 21:9

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations which the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    But they hearkened{H8085} not: and Manasseh{H4519} seduced{H8582} them to do{H6213} that which is evil{H7451} more than did the nations{H1471} whom Jehovah{H3068} destroyed{H8045} before{H6440} the children{H1121} of Israel.{H3478}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    But they hearkened{H8085}{(H8804)} not: and Manasseh{H4519} seduced{H8582}{(H8686)} them to do{H6213}{(H8800)} more evil{H7451} than did the nations{H1471} whom the LORD{H3068} destroyed{H8045}{(H8689)} before{H6440} the children{H1121} of Israel{H3478}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Neuertheles they wolde not herken, but Manasses disceaued them, so yt they dyd worse then the Heithen, whom the LORDE expelled before ye children of Israel.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Yet they obeyed not, but Manasseh ledde them out of the way, to doe more wickedly then did the heathen people, whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    But they hearkened not: and Manasse led them out of the way, to do more wickedly then dyd the heathen people whom the Lorde destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And they have not hearkened, and Manasseh causeth them to err, to do the evil thing above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    But they didn't listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed from before the Israelites.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 29:12 : 12 If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials become wicked.
  • Ezek 16:47 : 47 You not only followed their ways and acted according to their detestable practices but in a very short time, you became more depraved than they were in all your ways.
  • Ezek 16:51-52 : 51 Samaria did not sin as much as you did. You multiplied your abominations more than they did, and your actions have justified your sisters in comparison to all your abominations. 52 Now bear your disgrace as you have judged your sisters. Because your sins were more abominable than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have justified your sisters.
  • Dan 9:6 : 6 We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our rulers, our ancestors, and to all the people of the land.
  • Dan 9:10-11 : 10 We have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by following His instructions, which He gave us through His servants the prophets. 11 All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice. So the curse and oath written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us because we have sinned against Him.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, crushed in judgment, because he was determined to follow human commands.
  • Luke 13:34 : 34 'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing.
  • John 15:22 : 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
  • Jas 4:17 : 17 So, if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
  • Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching, she misleads my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
  • 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam committed and made Israel commit.
  • 2 Chr 33:9 : 9 But 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 36:16 : 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people beyond remedy.
  • Ezra 9:10-11 : 10 'But now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commandments' 11 'that you commanded through your servants the prophets, saying: "The land you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the practices of its peoples and their detestable acts that have filled it with impurity from one end to the other."'
  • Neh 9:26 : 26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
  • Neh 9:29-30 : 29 You warned them to return to Your law, but they acted arrogantly and did not obey Your commandments. They sinned against Your judgments, which, if a person does, they will live by them. Stubbornly, they turned their backs, stiffened their necks, and would not listen. 30 For many years, You were patient with them. You warned them by Your Spirit through Your prophets, yet they would not listen. So You gave them into the hands of the peoples of the lands.
  • Ps 12:8 : 8 You, LORD, will keep them; you will protect them from this generation forever.
  • Ps 81:10 : 10 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 2 Chr 33:9-11
    3 verses
    89%

    9 But 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.

    10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.

    11 So the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

  • 2 Kgs 21:2
    80%

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10 The LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying:

    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 33:2
    79%

    2 He 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 21:15-17
    3 verses
    77%

    15 because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger since the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.

    16 Moreover, 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.

    17 As 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?

  • 2 Kgs 23:26
    75%

    26 However, the LORD did not turn from the fierce anger that burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 17:40
    75%

    40 But they would not listen. Instead, they continued to act according to their former customs.

  • 2 Kgs 18:12
    75%

    12 This happened because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God but violated His covenant—all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, had commanded. They neither listened nor carried it out.

  • 2 Kgs 17:21-22
    2 verses
    75%

    21 For when Israel was torn from the house of David, they made Jeroboam son of Nebat king. Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and led them into great sin.

    22 The Israelites persisted in all the sins Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    75%

    18 He 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.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

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

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

  • 2 Kgs 24:3
    74%

    3 Surely this came upon Judah by the command of the LORD, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh and all he had done.

  • Judg 2:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 But when the judge died, they returned to ways even more corrupt than those of their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and bowing down to them. They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

    20 Therefore, the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, 'Because this nation has violated the covenant I commanded their ancestors and has not listened to my voice,'

  • Judg 2:17
    73%

    17 Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
    73%

    9 You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have gone and made other gods and cast images to provoke Me to anger, and you have turned your back on Me.

  • Jer 11:8
    73%

    8 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, each one followed the stubbornness of their own evil heart. So I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to obey but they did not.

  • Jer 7:26
    73%

    26 But they did not listen to me or incline their ear; instead, they stiffened their necks and did worse than their ancestors.

  • Jer 11:10
    73%

    10 They have turned back to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have violated my covenant, which I made with their ancestors.

  • Jer 32:23
    73%

    23 They came in and took possession of it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They did not do what You commanded them to do, so You brought upon them all this disaster.

  • 2 Kgs 17:19
    73%

    19 But even Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God. They followed the practices of Israel as the Israelites had done.

  • Judg 1:27
    73%

    27 Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its surrounding villages, or Taanach and its surrounding villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its surrounding villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its surrounding villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its surrounding villages. The Canaanites were determined to stay in this land.

  • Jer 16:12
    72%

    12 And you have behaved even more wickedly than your ancestors, each one following the stubbornness of their own evil heart instead of listening to Me.

  • Jer 7:24
    72%

    24 But they did not listen or incline their ear; instead, they walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts. They went backward, not forward.

  • Judg 2:11
    72%

    11 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.

  • Josh 17:12
    72%

    12 But the descendants of Manasseh were unable to drive out the inhabitants of these cities. So the Canaanites continued to live in the land.

  • 2 Kgs 21:8
    72%

    8 I will no longer make Israel's feet wander from the land I gave their fathers, if only they will carefully do everything I commanded them and keep the whole law that My servant Moses gave them.'

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    72%

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

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    72%

    9 And the people will answer, 'Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they embraced other gods, worshiped them, and served them. That is why the LORD brought all this disaster on them.'

  • Jer 44:5
    72%

    5 But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness and to stop burning incense to other gods.

  • Jer 9:13
    72%

    13 Instead, they followed the stubbornness of their hearts and went after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 But they would not listen. Instead, they hardened their necks like their fathers who did not believe in the Lord their God.

    15 They despised His statutes, His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His warnings He gave them. They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. They imitated the nations around them, though the Lord had commanded them not to do so.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    72%

    17 They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • Neh 9:35
    72%

    35 Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying Your abundant goodness and the spacious, fertile land You gave them, they did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds.

  • Jer 15:4
    72%

    4 I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
    71%

    24 He 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 15:28
    71%

    28 He 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.

  • Neh 9:26
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    26 But they were disobedient and rebelled against You. They cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your prophets who warned them to turn back to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

  • Neh 9:16
    71%

    16 But they, our ancestors, acted arrogantly. They stiffened their necks and did not obey Your commandments.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    71%

    8 They followed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the Israelites, as well as the practices of the kings of Israel that they themselves had introduced.

  • Judg 10:6
    71%

    6 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They abandoned the LORD and did not serve Him.