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2 Chronicles 33 4-2 Chronicles 33 10
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said,“ Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.”He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the Lord’s temple.He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great deal of evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him.Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and his son Solomon,“ I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses— all the law, statutes, and judgments.”So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.
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2 Kings 23 32
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight just as his ancestors had done.
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Jeremiah 22:13-17
Woe for the one who builds his palace through unrighteousness, his upper rooms through injustice, who makes his fellow man serve without pay and will not give him his wages,who says,“ I will build myself a massive palace, with spacious upper rooms.” He will cut windows in it, and it will be paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.Are you a king because you excel in cedar? Didn’t your father eat and drink and administer justice and righteousness? Then it went well with him.He took up the case of the poor and needy, then it went well. Is this not what it means to know Me? This is the Lord’s declaration.But you have eyes and a heart for nothing except your own dishonest profit, shedding innocent blood and committing extortion and oppression.
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Jeremiah 26:20-23
Another man was also prophesying in the name of Yahweh— Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land in words like all those of Jeremiah.King Jehoiakim, all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, and the king tried to put him to death. When Uriah heard, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.But King Jehoiakim sent men to Egypt: Elnathan son of Achbor and certain other men with him went to Egypt.They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.
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2 Chronicles 33 22-2 Chronicles 33 23
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight just as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.But he did not humble himself before the Lord like his father Manasseh humbled himself; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
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Ezekiel 19:5-9
When she saw that she waited in vain, that her hope was lost, she took another of her cubs and made him a young lion.He prowled among the lions, and he became a young lion. After he learned to tear prey, he devoured people.He devastated their strongholds and destroyed their cities. The land and everything in it shuddered at the sound of his roaring.Then the nations from the surrounding provinces set out against him. They spread their net over him; he was caught in their pit.They put a wooden yoke on him with hooks and led him away to the king of Babylon. They brought him into the fortresses so his roar could no longer be heard on the mountains of Israel.
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Jeremiah 36:23-26
As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the blazing fire until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the brazier.As they heard all these words, the king and all of his servants did not become terrified or tear their garments.Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.Then the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord had hidden them.
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2 Chronicles 28 22-2 Chronicles 28 25
At the time of his distress, King Ahaz himself became more unfaithful to the Lord.He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him; he said,“ Since the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.” But they were the downfall of him and of all Israel.Then Ahaz gathered up the utensils of God’s temple, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the Lord’s temple, and made himself altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.He made high places in every city of Judah to offer incense to other gods, and he provoked the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
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Jeremiah 36:31
I will punish him, his descendants, and his officers for their wrongdoing. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the disaster, which I warned them about but they did not listen.”
