He rebuilt the shrines that his father Hezekiah had demolished; he erected altars for the Baals and made sacred posts.bsacred posts See note at 14.2. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and worshiped them,
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישב
318
ויבן
68
אתהבמות
854
אשר
501
נתץ
540
יחזקיהו
146
אביו
19
ויקם
156
מזבחות
463
לבעלים
182
ויעש
386
אשרות
907
וישתחו
730
לכלצבא
173
השמים
395
ויעבד
92
אתם
441
II Chronicles 33:4
Gematria: 2878
ובנהמזבחותבביתיהוהאשראמריהוהבירושלםיהיהשמילעולם
and he built altars [to them] in the House of GOD, of which GOD had said, “My name will be in Jerusalem forever.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובנה
63
מזבחות
463
בבית
414
יהוה
26
אשר
501
אמר
241
יהוה
26
בירושלם
588
יהיהשמי
380
לעולם
176
II Chronicles 33:5
Gematria: 2953
ויבןמזבחותלכלצבאהשמיםבשתיחצרותביתיהוה
He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the House of GOD.
He consigned his sons to the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, and he practiced soothsaying, divination, and sorcery, and consulted ghosts and familiar spirits; he did much that was displeasing to GOD in order to provoke anger.
He placed a sculptured image that he made in the House of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this House and in Jerusalem, which I chose out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My name forever.
And I will never again remove the feet of Israel from the land that I assigned to their ancestors, if only they observe faithfully all that I have commanded them—all the teaching and the laws and the rules given by Moses.”
Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray into evil greater than that done by the nations that GOD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויתע
486
מנשה
395
אתיהודה
431
וישבי
328
ירושלם
586
לעשות
806
רע
270
מןהגוים
154
אשר
501
השמיד
359
יהוה
26
מפני
180
בני
62
ישראלפ
621
II Chronicles 33:10
Gematria: 1287
וידבריהוהאלמנשהואלעמוולאהקשיבו
GOD
spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not pay heed,
so GOD brought against them the officers of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh captive in manacles, bound him in fetters, and led him off to Babylon.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבא
19
יהוה
26
עליהם
155
אתשרי
911
הצבא
98
אשר
501
למלך
120
אשור
507
וילכדו
76
אתמנשה
796
בחחים
68
ויאסרהו
288
בנחשתים
810
ויוליכהו
93
בבלה
39
II Chronicles 33:12
Gematria: 1895
וכהצרלוחלהאתפנייהוהאלהיוויכנעמאדמלפניאלהיאבתיו
In his distress, he entreated the ETERNAL his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
He prayed to [God], who granted his prayer, heard his plea, and returned him to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the ETERNAL alone was God.
Afterward he built the outer wall of the City of David west of Gihon in the wadi on the way to the Fish Gate, and it encircled Ophel; he raised it very high. He also placed army officers in all the fortified towns of Judah.
He removed the foreign gods and the image from the House of GOD, as well as all the altars that he had built on the Mount of the House of GOD and in Jerusalem, and dumped them outside the city.
He rebuilt the altar of GOD and offered on it sacrifices of well-being and thanksgiving, and commanded the people of Judah to worship the ETERNAL God of Israel.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויכן
86
ויבן
68
אתמזבח
458
יהוה
26
ויזבח
33
עליו
116
זבחי
27
שלמים
420
ותודה
421
ויאמר
257
ליהודה
60
לעבוד
112
אתיהוה
427
אלהי
46
ישראל
541
II Chronicles 33:17
Gematria: 1192
אבלעודהעםזבחיםבבמותרקליהוהאלהיהם
To be sure, the people continued sacrificing at the shrines, but only to the ETERNAL their God.
The other events of Manasseh’s reign, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the ETERNAL God of Israel are found in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
His prayer and how it was granted to him, the whole account of his sin and trespass, and the places in which he built shrines and installed sacred postscsacred posts See note at 14.2. and images before he humbled himself are recorded in the words of Hozai.dHozai Or “seers.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ותפלתו
922
והעתרלו
717
וכלחטאתו
480
ומעלו
152
והמקמות
597
אשר
501
בנה
57
בהם
47
במות
448
והעמיד
135
האשרים
556
והפסלים
231
לפני
170
הכנעו
151
הנם
95
כתובים
478
על
100
דברי
216
חוזי
31
II Chronicles 33:20
Gematria: 3174
וישכבמנשהעםאבתיוויקברהוביתווימלךאמוןבנותחתיופ
Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried on his palace grounds; his son Amon succeeded him as king.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישכב
338
מנשה
395
עםאבתיו
529
ויקברהו
329
ביתו
418
וימלך
106
אמון
97
בנו
58
תחתיופ
904
II Chronicles 33:21
Gematria: 3812
בןעשריםושתיםשנהאמוןבמלכוושתיםשניםמלךבירושלם
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
He did what was displeasing to GOD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made and worshiped them.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויעש
386
הרע
275
בעיני
142
יהוה
26
כאשר
521
עשה
375
מנשה
395
אביו
19
ולכלהפסילים
321
אשר
501
עשה
375
מנשה
395
אביו
19
זבח
17
אמון
97
ויעבדם
132
II Chronicles 33:23
Gematria: 1739
ולאנכנעמלפנייהוהכהכנעמנשהאביוכיהואאמוןהרבהאשמה
He did not humble himself before GOD, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; instead, Amon incurred much guilt.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולא
37
נכנע
190
מלפני
210
יהוה
26
כהכנע
165
מנשה
395
אביו
19
כי
30
הוא
12
אמון
97
הרבה
212
אשמה
346
II Chronicles 33:24
Gematria: 1727
ויקשרועליועבדיווימיתהובביתו
His courtiers conspired against him and killed him in his palace.