2 Kings 21:10–16

The King’s Idolatries Rebuked

¹⁰Now the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,

¹¹“^aBecause Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, ^bhaving done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and ^chas also made Judah sin ^dwith his idols;

¹²therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, ^aboth his ears will tingle.

¹³‘^aI will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

¹⁴‘I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;

¹⁵because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.’ ”

^16aMoreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin ^bwith which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.