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before the God of his fathers, and prayed to
Him; and He received his entreaty, heard his
supplication, and brought him back to Jerusa-
lem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew 85:9 salvation…who fear Him. Only those
that the LORD was God. who renounce their sinful autonomy and put
14 After this he built a wall outside the City of their complete trust in the living God will par-
David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, ticipate in the blessings of salvation and the
as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it future kingdom (John 3:3–5).glory may dwell
enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very in our land. The departure of the glory of God,
great height. Then he put military captains in which signified His presence, is described in
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all the fortified cities of Judah. He took away Ezekiel 10; 11. He withdrew His glory because
the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the apostasy of the nation immediately pre-
of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built ceding the Babylonian exile (Ezek. 8–11). The
return of the glory of the Lord in the future
in the mount of the house of the LORD and in millennial temple is foretold in Ezekiel 43:1–4.
Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city.
16 He also repaired the altar of the LORD, sacri- 85:10 Mercy…truth…righteousness…peace.
ficed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, These 4 spiritual qualities, characterizing the
and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God atmosphere of the future kingdom of Christ,
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of Israel. Nevertheless the people still sacri- will relate to each other in perfect harmony
ficed on the high places, but only to the LORD and will saturate kingdom life (vv. 10,13).
their God.
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his
prayer to his God, and the words of the seers That glory may dwell in our land.
who spoke to him in the name of the LORD
10 Mercy and truth have met together;
God of Israel, indeed they are written in the
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book of the kings of Israel. Also his prayer 11 Righteousness and peace have kissed.
and how God received his entreaty, and all his Truth shall spring out of the earth,
sin and trespass, and the sites where he built And righteousness shall look down
high places and set up wooden images and 12 from heaven.
carved images, before he was humbled, Yes, the LORD will give what is good;
indeed they are written among the sayings of And our land will yield its increase.
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Hozai. So Manasseh rested with his fathers, Righteousness will go before Him,
and they buried him in his own house. Then And shall make His footsteps our
his son Amon reigned in his place. pathway.
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he
became king, and he reigned two years in Je- Proverbs 21:12
rusalem. But he did evil in the sight of the 12 The righteous God wisely considers
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LORD, as his father Manasseh had done; for the house of the wicked,
Amon sacrificed to all the carved images Overthrowing the wicked for their
which his father Manasseh had made, and wickedness.
served them. And he did not humble himself Acts 20:17–38
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before the LORD, as his father Manasseh had
humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more 17 From Miletus he sent to Ephesus and
and more. called for the elders of the church. And when
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24 Then his servants conspired against him, they had come to him, he said to them: “You
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and killed him in his own house. But the peo- know, from the first day that I came to Asia, in
ple of the land executed all those who had con- what manner I always lived among you, serv-
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spired against King Amon. Then the people of ing the Lord with all humility, with many tears
the land made his son Josiah king in his place. and trials which happened to me by the plot-
ting of the Jews; how I kept back nothing that
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Psalm 85:8–13
was helpful, but proclaimed it to you, and
8 I will hear what God the LORD will taught you publicly and from house to house,
speak, 21 testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repen-
For He will speak peace tance toward God and faith toward our Lord
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To His people and to His saints; Jesus Christ. And see, now I go bound in the
But let them not turn back to folly. spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things
9 Surely His salvation is near to those that will happen to me there, except that the
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who fear Him, Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that
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