2 Chronicles 33:1 - The Message Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. In God’s opinion he was a bad king—an evil king. He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that had been scoured from the country when God dispossessed the pagan nations in favor of the children of Israel. He rebuilt the sex-and-religion shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down, he built altars and phallic images for the sex god Baal and the sex goddess Asherah and worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations. He built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of God, the very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by God’s decree to God’s Name (“in Jerusalem I place my Name”). He burned his own sons in a sacrificial rite in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft and fortunetelling. He held séances and consulted spirits from the underworld. Much evil—in God’s view a career in evil. And God was angry. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition MANASSEH WAS twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. American Standard Version (1901) Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. Common English Bible Manasseh was 12 years old when he became king, and he ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. Catholic Public Domain Version Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. |