2 Kings 21:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, following the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

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  • Lev 18:25-29 : 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I visit the iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomits out its inhabitants. 26 You shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger who sojourns among you: 27 For all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land is defiled; 28 That the land not spew you out also, when you defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you. 29 For whoever commits any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
  • Deut 12:31 : 31 You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • 2 Kgs 16:2-4 : 2 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. 3 But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel. 4 And he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
  • 2 Kgs 21:7 : 7 And he set up the carved image of the Asherah he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever:'
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 22:17 : 17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
  • 2 Chr 33:2-4 : 2 But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of the LORD, where the LORD had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.'
  • 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover, all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed greatly after all the abominations of the nations, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had sanctified in Jerusalem.
  • Jer 15:4 : 4 And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.
  • Ezek 16:51 : 51 Neither has Samaria committed half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your abominations which you have done.

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  • 2 Chr 33:1-3
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    1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

    2But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

    3For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he erected altars for Baal, made groves, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

  • 2 Kgs 21:20-22
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    86%

    20And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

    21And he walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them.

    22And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

  • 1 Kgs 21:26
    83%

    26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as the Amorites did, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:11
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    11'Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done more wickedly than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols:

  • 1 Kgs 22:52-53
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    52And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:

    53For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 21:9
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    9But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations which the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 13:2
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    2He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin; he did not depart from them.

  • 2 Chr 33:9
    79%

    9So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do worse than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
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    3For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal, and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

  • 2 Kgs 16:3
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    3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 23:32
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    32And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

  • 2 Kgs 21:1
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    1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.

  • 2 Kgs 15:18
    78%

    18And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 15:28
    78%

    28And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 15:24
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    24And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Chr 28:2-3
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    2For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for Baalim.

    3Moreover, he burned incense in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

  • 2 Kgs 15:9
    78%

    9And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fathers had done: he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Chr 33:22
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    22But he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images Manasseh his father had made and served them.

  • Jer 52:2
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    2And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

  • 2 Kgs 14:24
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    24And he did evil in the sight of the LORD: he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin.

  • 2 Kgs 23:37
    77%

    37And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

  • 2 Kgs 24:9
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    9And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 3:2
    76%

    2And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like his father and his mother, for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.

  • 2 Kgs 13:11
    76%

    11He did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin, but he walked in them.

  • 2 Kgs 21:6
    76%

    6And he made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination, sought omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 17:2
    76%

    2He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, but not like the kings of Israel who were before him.

  • Judg 2:11
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    11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:

  • 2 Kgs 24:19
    75%

    19And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

  • 1 Kgs 15:26
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    26He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 17:8
    74%

    8And they walked in the statutes of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

  • 2 Kgs 18:3
    74%

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

  • 2 Kgs 21:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15Because they have done what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.

    16Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.

    17Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

  • 2 Chr 33:6
    74%

    6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; also he observed times, used enchantments, used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit and with wizards; he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Chr 29:2
    73%

    2And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.

  • 2 Kgs 23:13
    73%

    13The high places that were before Jerusalem, which were to the right of the mount of Corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites, the king defiled.

  • 2 Kgs 8:18
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    18And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.

  • 2 Chr 22:4
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    4Therefore, he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, leading to his destruction.

  • 2 Kgs 15:3
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    3And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

  • 2 Chr 21:11
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    11Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah and led the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit idolatry and influenced Judah to sin.

  • 1 Kgs 15:34
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    34He did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin by which he made Israel to sin.

  • 2 Kgs 22:2
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    2And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

  • 2 Kgs 15:34
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    34And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.