Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

Bible References

Made judah

1 Kings 14:16
He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit."
1 Kings 15:26
He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He followed in his father's footsteps and encouraged Israel to sin.
2 Kings 21:16
Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord.
2 Kings 23:26
Yet the Lord's great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.
2 Kings 24:3
Just as the Lord had announced, he rejected Judah because of all the sins which Manasseh had committed.
Proverbs 29:12
If a ruler listens to lies, all his ministers will be wicked.
Micah 6:16
You implement the regulations of Omri, and all the practices of Ahab's dynasty; you follow their policies. Therefore I will make you an appalling sight, the city's inhabitants will be taunted derisively, and nations will mock all of you."

To do worse

2 Chronicles 33:2
He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:9
But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.
Ezekiel 16:45
You are the daughter of your mother, who detested her husband and her sons, and you are the sister of your sisters who detested their husbands and their sons. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

The heathen

Leviticus 18:24
"'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.
Deuteronomy 2:21
They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.
Joshua 24:8
Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered their land and I destroyed them from before you.
2 Kings 17:8
they observed the practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.

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