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He removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image [fn] and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and called it Nehushtan. [fn]

And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: "This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

Genesis 36:31-43">[xr] Now these were the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before a king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela the son of Beor, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

Ram begot Amminadab, and Amminadab begot Nahshon, leader of the children of Judah;

Caleb the son of Hezron had children by Azubah, his wife, and by Jerioth. Now these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

The sons of Nadab were Seled and Appaim; Seled died without children.

The sons of Jada, the brother of Shammai, were Jether and Jonathan; Jether died without children.

Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brothers did not have many children, nor did any of their families multiply as much as the children of Judah.

And the children of Gad dwelt next to them in the land of Bashan as far as Salcah:

These were the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

So the children of the half-tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land. Their numbers increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon, that is, to Senir, or Mount Hermon.

The children of Amram were Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. And the sons of Aaron were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

So the children of Israel gave these cities with their common-lands to the Levites.

And they gave by lot from the tribe of the children of Judah, from the tribe of the children of Simeon, and from the tribe of the children of Benjamin these cities which are called by their names.

From the tribe of Zebulun the rest of the children of Merari were given Rimmon 1 Chronicles 4:32">[fn] with its common-lands and Tabor with its common-lands.

and by the borders of the children of Manasseh were Beth Shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph, the son of Israel.

The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the children of Japhlet.