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Manasseh מְנַשֶּׁה
King of Judah. Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, was a king of Judah who reigned for 55 years.
Also called Manasses.
Family
In the genealogy of Jesus · Kings of Israel and Judah
Where Manasseh appears
2 Kings (11), 2 Chronicles (10), 1 Chronicles (1), Jeremiah (1), Matthew (1)
Key verses
- 2 Kings 20:21 first mention — And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
- 2 Kings 21:9 — But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
- 2 Kings 21:11 — 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:
- 2 Kings 21:16 — 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.
- 2 Kings 23:26 — Notwithstanding the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
- 2 Kings 24:3 — Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
- 2 Chronicles 32:33 — And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
- 2 Chronicles 33:9 — So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 33:11 — Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
- 2 Chronicles 33:13 — And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
- 2 Chronicles 33:23 — And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
- Jeremiah 15:4 — And I will cause them to be removed into all kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh the son of Hezekiah king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.