2 Kings 21:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that it filled the length and breadth of Jerusalem, in addition to the sin he caused Judah to commit by doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:9

Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into doing even greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.

2 Kings 21:11

“Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has practiced these abominations, and has done greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him, and has led Judah into sin by his idols,

Numbers 35:33

You will not pollute the land where you live. For bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for the blood shed on it except through the blood of the one who shed it.

Hebrews 11:37

They were stoned, sawed in two, put to death at sword’s point; they went about in skins of sheep or goats, needy, afflicted, tormented.

Luke 13:34

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how many times I yearned to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were unwilling!

Matthew 27:6

The chief priests gathered up the money, but said, “It is not lawful to deposit this in the temple treasury, for it is the price of blood.”

Jeremiah 19:4

All because they have forsaken me and profaned this place by burning incense to other gods which neither they nor their ancestors knew; and because the kings of Judah have filled this place with innocent blood,

Jeremiah 15:4

And I will make them an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 7:6

if you no longer oppress the alien, the orphan, and the widow; if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow after other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 2:34

On your clothing is the life-blood of the innocent, you did not find them committing burglary;

2 Kings 21:7

The Asherah idol he had made, he placed in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.

Exodus 32:21

Moses asked Aaron, “What did this people do to you that you should lead them into a grave sin?”

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done what is evil in my sight and provoked me from the day their ancestors came forth from Egypt until this very day.”

Jeremiah 32:31

This city has so stirred my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, that I must put it out of my sight,

Ezekiel 9:9

He answered me: The guilt of the house of Israel and the house of Judah is too great to measure; the land is filled with bloodshed, the city with lawlessness. They think that the Lord has abandoned the land, that he does not see them.

Ezekiel 22:4

By the blood you shed you have become guilty, and by the idols you made you have become defiled. You have brought on your day, you have come to the end of your years. Therefore I make you an object of scorn for the nations and a laughingstock for all lands.

2 Kings 3:3

but he still held fast unceasingly to the sins which Jeroboam, son of Nebat, caused Israel to commit. War Against Moab: Drought.

2 Kings 21:2

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Proverbs 6:16

There are six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to him;

Proverbs 6:17

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Ezekiel 22:2

You, son of man, will you judge? will you judge the city of bloodshed? Then make known all its abominations,

Ezekiel 23:45

The righteous shall certainly punish them with sentences given to adulterers and murderers, for they committed adultery, and blood is on their hands.