Thematic Bible: Adopted by the wicked kings
Thematic Bible
Idolatry » Adopted by the wicked kings
He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols as the Amorites had, whom the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
Verse Concepts
for he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and made cast images of the Baals. He burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and burned his children in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites. He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them.
Verse Concepts
He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he worshiped them.
Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
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