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2 Kings 21:13-26 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

13. I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the dish; he wipes it and turns it on its face.

14. I will give up the remainder of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become as prey and as spoil for all their enemies,

15. because they have done evil in my eyes and were provoking me from the day that their ancestors came out from Egypt up to this day.’ ”

16. Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he filled Jerusalem from one end to another, apart from his sin which he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

17. The remainder of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he committed, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

18. Then Manasseh slept with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his palace, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place.

19. Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah.

20. He did evil in the eyes of Yahweh as Manasseh his father had done.

21. He walked in all of the way which his father had walked, and he served the idols which his father had served and bowed down to them.

22. He abandoned Yahweh the God of his ancestors and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.

23. The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

24. But the people of the land killed all who conspired against the king and made Josiah his son king in his place.

25. The remainder of the acts of Amon that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

26. They buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in place of him.

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