2 Kings 21:16 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁶ And also, Menashsheh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Yehuḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, filling Jerusalem from one end to another–besides his sin in making Judah sin, by doing evil in the sight of the Lord! [II Chron. 33:1-10.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Manasseh spilled so much innocent blood that he filled up every corner of Jerusalem with it. And this doesn’t include the sins he caused Judah to commit so that they did what was evil in the LORD’s eyes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Moreover, Manasseh also has shed an exceedingly great amount of innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem even to the mouth, aside from his sins by which he caused Judah to sin, so that they did evil before the Lord."

2 Kings 21:16 Cross References

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Menashsheh sovereign of Yehuḏ

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done evil in My eyes, and have provoked Me since the day their fathers came out of Mitsrayim, even to this day.’ ”

2 Kings 21:2

And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to the abominations of the gentiles whom יהוה  dispossessed before the children of Yisra’ĕ

2 Kings 21:7

And he placed a carved image of Ashĕ

2 Kings 3:3

But he clung to the sins of Yaroḇ

2 Chronicles 33:9

Thus Menashsheh led Yehuḏ

Exodus 32:21

And Mosheh said to Aharon, “What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?”

Proverbs 6:16

These six matters יהוה  hates, And seven are an abomination to Him:

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, A lying tongue, And hands shedding innocent blood,

Jeremiah 15:4

“And I shall make them for a horror to all the reigns of the earth, on account of Menashsheh son of Ḥ

Jeremiah 19:4

“Because they have forsaken Me and have profaned this place, and have burned incense in it to other mighty ones whom neither they, their fathers, nor the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 2:34

“Even on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. You did not find them breaking in, but in spite of all these,

Jeremiah 32:31

“For this city has been a cause for My displeasure and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day that I should remove it from before My face,

Jeremiah 7:6

if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,

Ezekiel 22:2

“And now, son of man, judge, judge the city of blood! And you shall show her all her abominations!

Ezekiel 22:4

“You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your days near, and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I shall make you a reproach to the gentiles, and a mockery to all lands.

Ezekiel 23:45

“But let righteous men judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, and the judgment of women who shed blood, for they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.

Ezekiel 9:9

And He said to me, “The crookedness of the house of Yisra’ĕ

Numbers 35:33

‘And do not profane the land where you are, for blood profanes the land, and the land is not pardoned for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Matthew 27:6

And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not right to put them into the treasury, seeing they are the price of blood.”

Luke 13:34

“Yerushalayim, Yerushalayim, killing the prophets and stoning those who are sent to her! How often I wished to gather your children together, the way a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, but you would not!

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawn in two, they were slain with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in need, afflicted, mistreated,