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2 Kings 24:4

Good News Translation

and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The Lord could not forgive Manasseh for that.

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“King Manasseh has done these disgusting things, things far worse than what the Canaanites did; and with his idols he has led the people of Judah into sin.

Manasseh killed so many innocent people that the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with blood; he did this in addition to leading the people of Judah into idolatry, causing them to sin against the Lord.

But the Lord's fierce anger had been aroused against Judah by what King Manasseh had done, and even now it did not die down.

Everything that Jehoiakim did is recorded in The History of the Kings of Judah.

They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.

I will make all the people of the world horrified at them because of what Hezekiah's son Manasseh did in Jerusalem when he was king of Judah.”

I am going to do this because the people have abandoned me and defiled this place by offering sacrifices here to other gods—gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known anything about. They have filled this place with the blood of innocent people,

Your clothes are stained with the blood of the poor and innocent, not with the blood of burglars. “But in spite of all this,

But you can only see your selfish interests; you kill the innocent and violently oppress your people. The Lord has spoken.

The people of this city have made me angry and furious from the day it was built. I have decided to destroy it

“We have sinned and rebelled, and you, O Lord, have not forgiven us.

Tell the city what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying: Because you have murdered so many of your own people and have defiled yourself by worshiping idols, your time is coming.

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “The city of murderers is doomed! It is like a corroded pot that is never cleaned. Piece after piece of meat is taken out, and not one is left.

I have left the blood there, where it cannot be hidden, where it demands angry revenge.”

“Tell them what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying: You eat meat with the blood still in it. You worship idols. You commit murder. What makes you think that the land belongs to you?

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Do this, so that innocent people will not die and so that you will not be guilty of putting them to death in the land that the Lord is giving you.

Make sure that there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him, even if he stubbornly goes his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.




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