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So Hezekiah said, “They came from a far the two courts of the house of the LORD. Also
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country, from Babylon.” he made his son pass through the fire, practiced
15 And he said, “What have they seen in your soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted
house?” spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in
So Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to
that is in my house; there is nothing among anger. He even set a carved image of Asherah
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my treasures that I have not shown them.” that he had made, in the house of which the
16 Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his
word of the LORD: ‘Behold, the days are com- son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I
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ing when all that is in your house, and what have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will
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your fathers have accumulated until this day, put My name forever; and I will not make the
shall be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be feet of Israel wander anymore from the land
left,’ says the LORD. ‘And they shall take away which I gave their fathers—only if they are
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careful to do according to all that I have com-
manded them, and according to all the law
that My servant Moses commanded them.”
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20:16,17 word of the LORD…carried to But they paid no attention, and Manasseh se-
Babylon. Isaiah predicted the Babylonian cap- duced them to do more evil than the nations
tivity that would come over a century later (586 whom the LORD had destroyed before the chil-
B.C.), another prophecy historically fulfilled in all dren of Israel.
of its expected detail. 10 And the LORD spoke by His servants the
prophets, saying, “Because Manasseh king
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20:17 nothing shall be left. Hezekiah’s sin of of Judah has done these abominations (he has
parading his wealth before the visitors back- acted more wickedly than all the Amorites who
fired,though this sin was only symptomatic of were before him, and has also made Judah sin
the ultimate reason for the captivity.The major with his idols), therefore thus says the LORD
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cause was the corrupt leadership of Manasseh, God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such
Hezekiah’s son (21:11–15). calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that who-
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ever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. And
some of your sons who will descend from you, I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring
whom you will beget; and they shall be eu- line of Samaria and the plummet of the house
nuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’ ” of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a
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19 So Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. So
the LORD which you have spoken is good!” For
he said, “Will there not be peace and truth at
least in my days?”
20 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah—all
his might, and how he made a pool and a tun- 21:13 the plummet. These were weighted
lines dropped from walls to see whether they
nel and brought water into the city—are they were structurally straight (Is. 28:17; Amos
not written in the book of the chronicles of the 7:7,8). Walls out of line were torn down. The
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kings of Judah? So Hezekiah rested with his Lord had measured Jerusalem by the standard
fathers. Then Manasseh his son reigned in his of His word and had determined that the fate
place. of Samaria (Israel) was also to befall Jerusalem.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he wipe Jerusalem. As one would wipe food off
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years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was off the earth, i.e., obliterate her, and leave her
Hephzibah. And he did evil in the sight of the turned upside down, empty, and useless.
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LORD, according to the abominations of the
nations whom the LORD had cast out before
the children of Israel. For he rebuilt the high I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance
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places which Hezekiah his father had and deliver them into the hand of their ene-
destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and mies; and they shall become victims of plun-
made a wooden image, as Ahab king of Israel der to all their enemies, because they have
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had done; and he worshiped all the host of done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me
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heaven and served them. He also built altars to anger since the day their fathers came out
in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”
had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.” 16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much inno-
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in cent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from
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