2 Kings 21:9
But they hearkened not: and Menasseh seduced them to do what is evil more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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In Context
10And the Lord spoke by means of his servants the prophets, saying,
Cross References
1 Samuel 8:19Nevertheless the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No; but a king shall be over us;
2 Kings 16:3But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even his son he caused to pass through the fire, after the abominable acts of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.
2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scorned his prophets, until the fury of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
Nehemiah 9:26Then became they disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and they slew thy prophets who had warned them to bring them back unto thee, and they practised great provocations.
Psalms 12:8(12:9) On every side do the wicked walk about, when the vile are exalted over the sons of man.
Proverbs 29:12If a ruler listen to the word of falsehood, all his servants become wicked.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:2-10
Manasseh's Impious Reign. ( b. c. 698.) 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the… Read the whole commentary →