2 Chronicles 33:2

And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

In Context

1Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

3And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.

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Cross References

Leviticus 20:22Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out.

Deuteronomy 12:31Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

Deuteronomy 18:14These nations, whose land thou shalt possess, hearken to soothsayers and diviners: but thou art otherwise instructed by the Lord thy God.

2 Kings 17:15And they rejected his ordinances and the covenant that he made with their fathers, and the testimonies which he testified against them: and they followed vanities, and acted vainly: and they followed the nations that were round about them, concerning which the Lord had commanded them that they should not do as they did.

2 Kings 21:9But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 33:2-11

The Reign of Manasseh. ( b. c. 662.) 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 Also he built altars in the… Read the whole commentary →

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