2 Kings 21:10

THE MESSAGE

God , thoroughly fed up, sent word through his servants the prophets: "Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these outrageous sins, eclipsing the sin-performance of the Amorites before him, setting new records in evil, using foul idols to debase Judah into a nation of sinners, this is my judgment, God 's verdict: I, the God of Israel, will visit catastrophe on Jerusalem and Judah, a doom so terrible that when people hear of it they'll shake their heads in disbelief, saying, ‘I can't believe it!'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord said through his servants the prophets,

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

English Standard Version
And the Lord said by his servants the prophets,

New Century Version
The Lord said through his servants the prophets,

New English Translation
So the Lord announced through his servants the prophets:

Amplified Bible
Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

New American Standard Bible
Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Therefore the Lorde spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh spoke by the hand of His slaves the prophets, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

Contemporary English Version
One day the Lord said to some of his prophets:

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai spoke this message through his servants the prophets:

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke by his servants the prophets saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord used his servants the prophets to say this:

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

Good News Translation
Through his servants the prophets the Lord said,

Lexham English Bible
So Yahweh spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then spake the LORDE by his seruauntes the prophetes, and saide:

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord spake by his seruauntes the prophetes, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord spak in the hond of his seruauntis prophetis, and seide,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke by his slaves the prophets, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

New King James Version
And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,

New Living Translation
Then the Lord said through his servants the prophets:

New Life Bible
Now the Lord spoke through His servants who tell what will happen in the future. He said,

New Revised Standard
The Lord said by his servants the prophets,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh therefore spake through his servants the prophets saying -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said by his servants the prophets,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ God , thoroughly fed up, sent word through his servants the prophets: "Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these outrageous sins, eclipsing the sin-performance of the Amorites before him, setting new records in evil, using foul idols to debase Judah into a nation of sinners, this is my judgment, God 's verdict: I, the God of Israel, will visit catastrophe on Jerusalem and Judah, a doom so terrible that when people hear of it they'll shake their heads in disbelief, saying, ‘I can't believe it!' ¹³"I'll visit the fate of Samaria on Jerusalem, a rerun of Ahab's doom. I'll wipe out Jerusalem as you would wipe out a dish, wiping it out and turning it over to dry. I'll get rid of what's left of my inheritance, dumping them on their enemies. If their enemies can salvage anything from them, they're welcome to it. They've been nothing but trouble to me from the day their ancestors left Egypt until now. They pushed me to my limit; I won't put up with their evil any longer." ¹⁶ The final word on Manasseh was that he was an indiscriminate murderer. He drenched Jerusalem with the innocent blood of his victims. That's on top of all the sins in which he involved his people. As far as God was concerned, he'd turned them into a nation of sinners. ¹⁷The rest of the life and times of Manasseh, everything he did and his sorry record of sin, is written in The Chronicles of the Kings of Judah. Manasseh died and joined his ancestors. He was buried in the palace garden, the Garden of Uzza. His son Amon became the next king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 33:10, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Nehemiah 9:26, Nehemiah 9:30, Matthew 23:34-37, In the following verses the doom of Judah and Jerusalem is passed, and it is a heavy doom. The prophets were sent in the first place to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty, and direct them in it: if they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty: if in this they prevailed not, their next work was to foretell the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken to repentance those who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love; or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the divine mission of the prophets who foretold them. They were made judges to those who would not hear and receive them as teachers. - Henry.

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
But God said, "That's not what I mean. Your wife, Sarah, will have a baby, a son. Name him Isaac (Laughter). I'll establish my covenant with him and his descendants, a covenant that lasts forever.

Genesis 20:11
Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place and that they'd kill me to get my wife. Besides, the truth is that she is my half sister; she's my father's daughter but not my mother's. When God sent me out as a wanderer from my father's home, I told her, ‘Do me a favor; wherever we go, tell people that I'm your brother.'"

Genesis 21:7
She also said, Whoever would have suggested to Abraham that Sarah would one day nurse a baby! Yet here I am! I've given the old man a son!

Genesis 21:11
The matter gave great pain to Abraham—after all, Ishmael was his son. But God spoke to Abraham, "Don't feel badly about the boy and your maid. Do whatever Sarah tells you. Your descendants will come through Isaac. Regarding your maid's son, be assured that I'll also develop a great nation from him—he's your son, too."

Genesis 21:22
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."

Genesis 21:31
That's how the place got named Beersheba (the Oath-Well), because the two of them swore a covenant oath there. After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and his commander, Phicol, left and went back to Philistine territory.

Genesis 25:19
This is the family tree of Isaac son of Abraham: Abraham had Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram. She was the sister of Laban the Aramean.

1 John 2:19
They left us, but they were never really with us. If they had been, they would have stuck it out with us, loyal to the end. In leaving, they showed their true colors, showed they never did belong.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets,.... Who prophesied in the days of Manasseh; and were, according to the Jewish chronology f, Joel, Nahum, and Habakkuk:

saying: as follows.

f Seder Olam Rabba, c. 20. p. 55.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophets - None of the prophets of this reign are certainly known. One may possibly have been Hosai or Hozai (2 Chronicles 33:19, margin), who perhaps wrote a life of Manasseh.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 21:10. The Lord spake by - the prophets — The prophets were Hosea, Joel, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Isaiah. These five following verses contain the sum of what these prophets spoke. It is said that Isaiah not only prophesied in those days, but also that he was put to death by Manasseh, being sawn asunder by a wooden saw.