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New American Standard Bible (1995)

2 Chronicles 33:1

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he 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.

Contextual Overview

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD had said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." 5 For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. 7 Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; 8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses." 9 Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel. 10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.

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
He delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass on before me, and put a space between droves."
Genesis 33:6
Then the maids came near with their children, and they bowed down.
Genesis 33:7
Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

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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