Manasseh(A) set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God’s temple,(B) about which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever[a](C) in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.(D) I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your[b](E) ancestors,(F) if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the law, statutes, and judgments.” So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:7 LXX, Syr, Tg, Vg; 2Kg 21:7; MT reads name for Elom
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:8 LXX, Syr, Vg read land I gave to their; 2Kg 21:8

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