2 Kings 21:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

They hearkened

More evil

Ezekiel 16:47

General references

Exodus 32:21

Job 34:30

Bible References

They hearkened

But they kept mocking the messengers of God and despising His words and scoffing at His prophets until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy or healing.

“Now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have abandoned (turned away from) Your commandments,

“Yet they were disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who warned them
To return to You;
And they committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies.

“I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.

Further, we have not listened to and heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones

[to death] those [messengers] who are sent to her [by God]! How often I have wanted to gather your children together [around Me], just as a hen gathers her young under her wings, but you were not willing!

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have [the guilt of their] sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

So any person who knows what is right to do but does not do it, to him it is sin.

More evil

Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or behaved in accordance with their pagan practices; but, as if that were too little, you [soon] acted more corruptly in all your ways than they.

General references

Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought so great a sin on them?”

So that godless men would not rule
Nor be snares for the people.