2 Kings 21:6
And he made bno pass through the eish, and practiced sorcery, and witchcraft, and dealt with familiar spirits + 21:6 i.e., he consulted mediums and spiritists; he wrought much rah in the eyes of Hashem, to provoke Him to anger.
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Genesis 13:13But the men of Sodom were ra'im and chatta'im before Hashem exceedingly.
Leviticus 19:26Ye shall not eat any thing with the dahm; neither shall ye practice divination, nor practice sorcery.
Leviticus 20:2Again, thou shalt say to the Bnei Yisroel, Whosoever he be of the Bnei Yisroel, or of the ger that sojourn in Yisroel, that giveth any of his zera unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death; the Am HaAretz shall stone him with stones.
Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked Him to jealousy with zarim (foreign g-ds), 1 with to'evot (abominations) provoked they Him to anger. 1
2 Kings 16:3But he walked in the derech of the Melachim of Yisroel, and even made bno to pass through the eish, according to the to'avot of the Goyim, whom Hashem cast out from before the Bnei Yisroel.
2 Kings 23:24Moreover the mediums with familiar spirits, and the yidonim (spiritists), and the terafim, and the gillulim (idols), and all the shikkutzim that were seen in Eretz Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, did Yoshiyah put away, that he might confirm the Divrei HaTorah which were written in the Sefer that Chilkiyah HaKohen found in the Beis Hashem.
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 →