2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it + 21:16 Gr. mouth to mouth.from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.

Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15forasmuch as they have done wickedly in my sight, and have provoked me from the day that I brought out their fathers out of Egypt, even until this day.

17And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?

Read all of 2 Kings 21

Cross References

Numbers 35:33So shall ye not pollute with murder the land in which ye dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it.

2 Kings 3:3Only he adhered to the sin of Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin; he departed not from it.

2 Kings 21:7And he set up the graven image of the grove 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 the tribes of Israel, will I even place my name for ever.

2 Kings 24:3Moreover it was + 24:3 Gr. on the mind.the purpose of the Lord concerning Juda, to remove + 24:3 Gr. him.them from his presence, because of the sins of Manasses, according to all that he did.

2 Chronicles 33:9So Manasses led astray Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:11-19

Manasseh's Ruin Foretold. ( b. c. 643.) 10 And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying, 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: 12 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study 2 Kings 21:16