96IMMERSE•CHRONICLES2C| 33:9-23I set aside for your ancestors.” But Manasseh led the people of Judah andJerusalem to do even more evil than the pagan nations that the Lord haddestroyed when the people of Israel entered the land.The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they ignored all hiswarnings. So the Lord sent the commanders of the Assyrian armies, andthey took Manasseh prisoner. They put a ring through his nose, boundhim in bronze chains, and led him away to Babylon. But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himselfbefore the God of his ancestors. And when he prayed, the Lord listened tohim and was moved by his request. So the Lord brought Manasseh backto Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh finally realized that theLord alone is God!After this Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of Dav id, fromwest of the Gihon Spring in the Kidron Valley to the Fish Gate, andcontinuing around the hill of Ophel. He built the wall very high. Andhe stationed his military officers in all of the fortified towns of Judah.Manasseh also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’sTemple. He tore down all the altars he had built on the hill where theTemple stood and all the altars that were in Jerusalem, and he dumpedthem outside the city. Then he restored the altar of the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings on it. He also encouraged the people of Judah to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.However, the people still s acrificed at the pagan shrines, though only tothe Lord their God.The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, his prayer to God, and thewords the seers spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel,are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel. Manasseh’s prayer, the account of the way God answered him, and an account of all his sins andunfaithfulness are recorded in The Record of the Seers. It includes a list ofthe locations where he built pagan shrines and set up Asherah poles andidols before he humbled himself and repented. When Manasseh died, hewas buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the next king.Amon was t wenty-two years old when he became king, and he reignedin Jerusalem two years. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just ashis father, Manasseh, had done. He worshiped and sacrificed to all theidols his father had made. But unlike his father, he did not humble himselfbefore the Lord. Instead, Amon sinned even more.ImmerseChronicles_NLT.indd 966/21/2017 10:01:34 AM
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