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Literal Standard Version

2 Chronicles 33:1

Manasseh is a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Manasseh;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Kings;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Manasseh (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Esarhaddon;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Manasseh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostasy;   Manasseh (3);   Manasses, the Prayer of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Hebrew Names Version
Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.
King James Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
English Standard Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
New Century Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was king for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
New English Translation
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Amplified Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
New American Standard Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
World English Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Manasseh was twelue yeere olde, when he beganne to reigne, and he reigned fiue and fiftie yeere in Ierusalem:
Legacy Standard Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
Contemporary English Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled fifty-five years from Jerusalem.
Complete Jewish Bible
M'nasheh was twelve years old when he began his reign, and he ruled for fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.
Darby Translation
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Easy-to-Read Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king of Judah. He was king for 55 years in Jerusalem.
George Lamsa Translation
MANASSEH was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem;
Good News Translation
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for fifty-five years.
Lexham English Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Literal Translation
Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty five years.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Manasses was twolue yeare olde wha he was made kynge, and reigned fyue and fiftye yeare at Ierusalem,
American Standard Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
Bible in Basic English
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Manasse was twelue yeres olde when he began to raigne, and he raigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Hierusalem:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
King James Version (1611)
Manasseh was twelue yeeres old when he began to reigne, and he reigned fiftie and fiue yeres in Ierusalem:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
English Revised Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Manasses was of twelue yeer, whanne he bygan to regne, and he regnyde in Jerusalem fyue and fifti yeer.
Update Bible Version
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
Webster's Bible Translation
Manasseh [was] twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
New King James Version
2 Kings 21:1-9">[xr] Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
New Living Translation
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.
New Life Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. And he ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
New Revised Standard
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Twelve years old, was Manasseh when he began to reign, - and, fifty-five years, reigned he in Jerusalem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Revised Standard Version
Manas'seh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Young's Literal Translation
A son of twelve years is Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;
THE MESSAGE
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. In God 's opinion he was a bad king—an evil king. He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that had been scoured from the country when God dispossessed the pagan nations in favor of the children of Israel. He rebuilt the sex-and-religion shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down, he built altars and phallic images for the sex god Baal and the sex goddess Asherah and worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations. He built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of God , the very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by God 's decree to God 's Name ("in Jerusalem I place my Name"). He burned his own sons in a sacrificial rite in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft and fortunetelling. He held séances and consulted spirits from the underworld. Much evil—in God 's view a career in evil. And God was angry.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Contextual Overview

1Manasseh is a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem;2and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, like the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel, 3and he turns and builds the high places that his father Hezekiah has broken down, and raises altars for Ba‘alim, and makes Asherim, and bows himself to all the host of the heavens, and serves them. 4And he has built altars in the house of YHWH of which YHWH had said, "My Name is in Jerusalem for all time." 5And he builds altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH. 6And he has caused his sons to pass over through fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he has multiplied to do evil in the eyes of YHWH, to provoke him to anger. 7And he places the carved image of the idol that he made in the house of God, of which God said to David, and to his son Solomon, "In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My Name for all time, 8and I do not add to turn aside the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers, only, if they watch to do all that I have commanded them—to all the Law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses." 9And Manasseh causes Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that YHWH destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel. 10And YHWH speaks to Manasseh and to his people, and they have not attended,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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Manasseh: 2 Chronicles 32:33, 2 Kings 21:1-18, 1 Chronicles 3:13, Matthew 1:10, Manasses

twelve: 2 Chronicles 34:1, 2 Chronicles 34:2, Ecclesiastes 10:16, Isaiah 3:4, Isaiah 3:12

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 21:17 - the rest 2 Chronicles 33:19 - all his sins 2 Chronicles 33:21 - two years 2 Chronicles 33:22 - as did Manasseh 2 Chronicles 33:23 - humbled Matthew 7:8 - General Luke 15:13 - and took

Cross-References

Genesis 32:16
and he gives into the hand of his servants every drove by itself, and says to his servants, "Pass over before me, and a space you put between drove and drove."
Genesis 33:6
And the maidservants draw near, they and their children, and bow themselves;
Genesis 33:7
and Leah also draws near, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterward Joseph has drawn near with Rachel, and they bow themselves.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Manasseh was twelve years old,.... From hence to the end of 2 Chronicles 33:9 the same things are recorded, almost word for word, as in 2 Kings 21:1, see the notes there.

2 Kings 21:1- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare references and notes. The author of Chronicles differs chiefly from Kings in additions (see the 2 Kings 21:17 note). The central part of this chapter (2 Chronicles 33:11-19) is almost entirely new matter.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXXIII

Manasseh reigns fifty-five years, and restores idolatry,

pollutes the temple, and practises all kinds of abominations,

1-9.

He and the people are warned in vain, 10.

He is delivered into the hands of the Assyrians, bound with

fetters, and carried to Babylon, 11.

He humbles himself, and is restored, 12, 13.

He destroys idolatry, and restores the worship of God, 14-16.

The people keep the high places, but sacrifice to the Lord on

them, 17.

His acts, prayer, and death, 18-20.

His son Amon succeeds him; and after a wicked idolatrous reign

of two years, is slain by his own servants in his own house,

21-24.

The people rise up, and slay his murderers, and make Josiah his

son king in his stead, 25.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXXIII

Verse 2 Chronicles 33:1. Manasseh was twelve years old — We do not find that he had any godly director; his youth was therefore the more easily seduced. But surely he had a pious education; how then could the principles of it be so soon eradicated?


 
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