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2 Kings 21:9

New American Bible - revised edition

But they did not listen. Manasseh misled them into doing even greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.

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He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam has committed and caused Israel to commit.”

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel; he even immolated his child by fire, in accordance with the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Then the Lord spoke through his servants the prophets:

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.

But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the Lord’s anger against his people blazed up beyond remedy.

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

You, O Lord, protect us always; preserve us from this generation.

There shall be no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god.

If rulers listen to lying words, their servants all become wicked.

so you shall know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you did not follow, whose ordinances you did not keep. Instead, you acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.

Not only did you walk in their ways and act as abominably as they did, but in a very short time you became more corrupt in all your ways than they were.

and say: Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood within itself so that its time has come, that has made idols for its own defilement:

But it rebelled against my ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against my statutes more than the foreign lands around it; they rejected my ordinances and did not walk in my statutes.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because you have caused more uproar than the nations surrounding you, not living by my statutes nor carrying out my judgments, nor even living by the ordinances of the surrounding nations;

We have not obeyed your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and all the people of the land.

Ephraim is oppressed, crushed by judgment, for he has willingly gone after filth!

“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!

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.

So for one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, it is a sin.

Yet I hold this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, who teaches and misleads my servants to play the harlot and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

The people, however, refused to listen to Samuel’s warning and said, “No! There must be a king over us.




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