Sunday, March 17, 2019

Two more kings go bad

In the 21st chapter of 2 Kings, we find Manasseh.  He became king of Jerusalem when he was only twelve years old.  And he reigned for fifty-five years.  And, as you guessed by the title of this post, he did evil in the sight of the Lord.  He reversed all of the things his father had done by rebuilding the places of worship for many pagans, and on top of it worshiped all of the stars in the sky.

Manasseh even sacrificed his own son to a pagan god (false god).

By the end of his evil reign, God told His prophets that, because of Manasseh's evil deeds and repulsiveness toward God, He would bring a great catastrophe upon Jerusalem.

And it was done.  Amon, his son, took his father's place and he only reigned for two short years.  He, too, continued in his father's evil ways.  He was killed two years into his reign by his own servants.

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