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	Manasseh of Judah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manasseh of Judah was the king of Judah and only son and successor of Hezekiah.
		This is referred to in 2 Chronicles 33:11, where the Authorized Version reads that Esarhaddon "took Manasseh among the thorns;" while the Revised Version renders the words, "took Manasseh in chains;" or literally, as in the margin, "with hooks" (compare 2 Kings 19:28).
		After a lengthened reign extending through fifty-five years, the longest in the history of Judah, he died, and was buried in the garden of Uzza, the "garden of his own house" (2 Kings 21:17, 18; 2 Chr.
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	Manasseh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manasseh or Menashe (מְנַשֶּׁה, Samaritan Hebrew Manatch, Gilghadic Aramaic Məhanšey, Standard Hebrew Mənašše, Tiberian Hebrew Mənaššeh: causative progressive participle from root נשה našah "to forget") was the name of several individuals from the Old Testament.
		Manasseh, the elder of the two sons of Joseph.
		His sons were Asriel and Machir, who was born to him by an Aramean concubine (1 Chronicles 7:14); and the only thing afterwards recorded of him is, that his grandchildren were "brought up upon Joseph's knees" (Gen. 50:23; R.V., "born upon Joseph's knees") i.e., were from their birth adopted by Joseph as his own children.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manasseh (247 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - MANASSEH: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Manasseh is recorded as prompting the enactment of laws regulating the possession of property in Canaan by daughters where the father had died without a son; the particular case in question was that of the daughters of Zelophehad (Num.
		Manasseh is heard of in the revival under Asa; in the Passover celebration in the days of Hezekiah; in the subsequent attack on idolatry; in the reform instituted by Josiah; and in the restoration of the Temple (II Chron.
		Manasseh went to Sanballat, and declared to him that in spite of his love for his wife he gave the preference to the priesthood.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=124&letter=M (1363 words)

	Prayer of Manasseh
		Its fifteen verses are ascribed to Manasseh, king of Judah from 698 to 642 BC.
		In 2 Kings 21:1-18, King Manasseh is portrayed as the worst of all sinners and is blamed for Judah’s downfall; however, 2 Chronicles describes the repentant King on his way to Babylon as an exile.
		After Manasseh "entreated the favor of the Lord his God" he was restored to his throne in Jerusalem, where he vowed to restore proper worship of the God of Israel.
	ourworld.cs.com /tomofield/Apocrypha/Summaries/pray-man.html (766 words)

	7th century BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hezekiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 715 - 687 BC).
		Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687 - 643 BC).
		Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah (reigned 641 BC - 609 BC).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/7th_century_BC (1474 words)

	Biblical people: Manasseh (King of Judah)
		Manasseh, son of King Hezekiah, and mother Hephzibah, began his reign at age 12.
		Manasseh removed the foreign idols from the hills and the Temple and tore down the pagan altars.
		When Manasseh died, he was buried beneath his own palace, and his son Amon became the new king.
	www.aboutbibleprophecy.com /p79.htm (396 words)

	Manasseh king of Judah
		An artifact has been found in the annals of archaeology that bears witness to Manasseh, who was the son of king Hezekiah.
		The story of King Manasseh is a story of a man who went from being one of the most vile and wicked sinners ever, to a saint.
		After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it enclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height.
	www.biblehistory.net /newsletter/manasseh.htm (958 words)

	Prophets and Kings - Manasseh and Josiah
		The kingdom of Judah, prosperous throughout the times of Hezekiah, was once more brought low during the long years of Manasseh's wicked reign, when paganism was revived, and many of the people were led into idolatry.
		He "turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." As one who was to occupy a position of trust, he resolved to obey the instruction that had been given for the guidance of Israel's rulers, and his obedience made it possible for God to use him as a vessel unto honour.
		The princes of Judah and the fairest of the people were to be carried captive to Babylon; the Judean cities and villages and the cultivated fields were to be laid waste; nothing was to be spared.
	www.nisbett.com /reference2/pk/pk32.html (1935 words)

	Manasseh,the Prodigal King
		Manasseh was the son of Hezekiah, who was one of the few kings in David's line, the kings of Judah, called "good."Most of them were evil, Hezekiah was responsible for a spiritual revival during his reign that swept the entire nation.
		Manasseh selected his pantheon from all the cultures surrounding Israel--from the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Philistines, the Phoenicians--but not one reference is made to the worship of the God of Israel.
		And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son became king in his place.
	www.pbc.org /library/files/html/0468.html (4175 words)

	Renewed by the Word of God
		These high places were centers of idolatrous worship, and the people of Judah often lapsed into significant spiritual compromise by engaging in the worship of false gods in these places.
		In all probability Manasseh manifested his adoration of Baal by commissioning craftsmen to carve images of the Canaanite god and his noxious consort Asherah.
		God foreshadows his abandonment of Judah to her enemies, and they would be carried off like the spoils of war.
	www.founders.org /ss/082204.htm (1969 words)

	Word Sight: God's Diary
		Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: But did that which was
		And when Manasseh was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, and prayed unto him: and God was appealed to of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
		And Manasseh took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city.
	www.wordsight.org /chapters/049_manasseh.htm (879 words)

	USCCB - NAB - 2 Chronicles 33
		Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into doing even greater evil than the nations which the LORD had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.
		The rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, can be found written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
		Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his own palace.
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/2chronicles/2chronicles33.htm (865 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Manasseh, King Of Judah
		Manasseh (not to be confused with the Israelite patriarch Manasseh, the grandson-made-son of Jacob; see Children of Jacob) was the son and successor of King Hezekiah of Judah (see Kings of Israel and Judah).
		Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
		Manasseh was a very bloody and evil man. There is an old Jewish tradition, that is not substantiated in the Scriptures, that Manasseh even had the prophet Isaiah sawed in two.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2004/20041212.htm (701 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		Manasseh received land on both sides of the Jordan River.
		Under Manasseh, Judah reached a low point of moral and spiritual degradation.
		The Jewish Prayer of Manasseh, included in the Old Testament Apocrypha of the Authorized Version and the New Revised Standard Version, is a penitential psalm, purporting to be the king's prayer in captivity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:manasseh (129 words)

	Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, ...
		We may note, too, that at the beginning of the chapter Manasseh is said to have done ‘like unto the abominations of the heathen,’ while in verse 9 he is said to have done ‘evil more than did the nations.’ When a worshipper of Jehovah does like the heathen, he does worse than they.
		Manasseh praying was freer in his chains than ever he had been in his prosperity.
		Manasseh humbling himself greatly before God was higher than when, in the pride of his heart, he shut God out from it.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/maclaren/2kings_eccl.ii.iv.xxi.html?bcb=0 (1581 words)

	ANE History: The End of Judah
		The "Asherah" which Manasseh made was probably an image of this pagan goddess (although it possibly could have been a sacred tree or grove of trees).
		The reference to Manasseh's captivity in Babylon was once commonly regarded as a mistake on the part of the Chronicler; most scholars thought that the Chronicler really meant that he'd been held captive in Nineveh.
		Evidently, however, the patriot at the front is one mind with the prophet at Jerusalem, realizing that reliance on the promises of Egypt was luring Judah to her doom and that true patriotism was encouraging the people to face the certainty of a Babylonian victory.
	www.theology.edu /lec21.htm (3731 words)

	The Fall and Rise of Manasseh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first lesson of Manasseh's life is that the passing of one generation to the next is inevitable.
		Instead Manasseh spent most of his reign undoing all the good work of his father and in the end he succeeded in making Judah more wicked than it had ever been before.
		Manasseh was a vile and detestable man, his life seemed to be over, but he prayed to God and God heard him.
	www.scar.rad.washington.edu /slsoftware.com/study/html_outlines/Fall_And_Rise_Of_Manasseh.html (1133 words)

	ForMinistry - vsItemDisplay
		PRAYER OF MANASSEH was written to provide the missing words of the prayer of the sinful King Manasseh of Judah mentioned in 2 Chronicles 33:12-19.
		Manasseh was king of Judah from 687 to 642 B.C. and has been called the most wicked of the kings of Israel and Judah.
		After accusing Manasseh of wickedness, verses 11-13 report that Manasseh is taken captive by the Assyrians and carried off to Babylon where he asks God for forgiveness.
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		Manasseh probably was unable to return to Jerusalem until he swore allegiance to the Assyrian king, but after he was released he then rejected the Assyrian and Canaanite gods and found the God of his fathers.
		Manasseh might have felt after his appearance in Babylon that he could be more independent and had been given more latitude by Ashurbanipal.
		It was during Manasseh's reign that Egypt, with the aid of the Greek mercenaries, besieged Ashdod.
	www.phoenixdatasystems.com /goliath/c7/c7e.htm (1577 words)

	Manasseh - The Real Harry Potter
		But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
		The other events of Manasseh's reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.
		His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself--all are written in the records of the seers.
	www.albertweb.com /evenachild/biblestories/manasseh.htm (815 words)

	Amazing Grace Bible Class
		When he took Jerusalem, he took the nation of Judah so far that they were worse than all those pagan people that they had been conquering for centuries.
		When Manasseh came back it said, "Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher.
		Manasseh's story reminds us of that If s a sad story, but let's don't let it be ours.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /thebibleway/ag1055.htm (2608 words)

	Manasseh of Judah - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		B.C.), son of Hezekiah, and king of Judah (2 Kings xxi.
		See further Driver, in Hogarth, Authority and Archaeology, pp.
		Manasseh was succeeded by his son Amon, who after a brief reign of two years perished in a conspiracy, his place being taken by Amon's son (or brother) Josiah.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Manasseh_(Son_Of_Hezekiah) (229 words)

	Chapter 12: The Old Testament Periods of Canonization - Part 3
		The re-introduction of Gentile paganism during the long reign of Manasseh was accomplished at the expense of Mosaic religion.
		The enemies of Judah were now in much rejoicing (verses 41–42, 51) and the strongholds of the country were expected to be broken down (verse 40).
		This lament is found at the end of Psalm 89 and it describes the historical situation that existed in Judah at the death of King Josiah.
	www.askelm.com /restoring/res015.htm (3454 words)

	BookRags: Manasseh ben Israel Biography
		Manasseh ben Israel was interested in Cabala, or Jewish mysticism, which predicted that the Messiah would appear as soon as Jews were dispersed to all parts of the world.
		Manasseh ben Israel was most interested in persuading Oliver Cromwell, the English lord protector, to readmit the Jews to England.
		Manasseh was a prolific author, but he never gained a reputation as a great scholar.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/manasseh-ben-israel (491 words)

	Prophets and Kings - Chapter 32 - Manasseh and Josiah
		Their testimony in behalf of truth and righteousness aroused the anger of Manasseh and his associates in authority, who endeavored to establish themselves in evil-doing by silencing every voice of disapproval.
		Faithfully the prophets continued their warnings and their exhortations; fearlessly they spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but the messages were scorned; backsliding Judah would not heed.
		He "turned not aside to the right hand or to the left." As one who was to occupy a position of trust, he resolved to obey the instruction that had been given for the guidance of Israel's rulers, and his obedience made it possible for God to use him as a vessel unto honor.
	www.preparingforeternity.com /pk/pk32.htm (1952 words)

	The Advent of Dionysus / Ephraim and Manasseh / 10.01
		And I'm reminded of the story of King Manasseh, the corrupt king of Judah, who committed "grievous abominations" in the Lord's sight, and was consequently carried off to Babylon: where he humbled himself "greatly," remitting of his sins, and was later returned to Jerusalem.
		Manasseh was also the "thirteenth" biblical king, in succession to Saul, the first.
		Thus we have Manasseh, Ephraim, and Judah (the Jews): and, in Israel's blessing of Judah he says: "Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee...."
	www.dionysus.org /x1001.html (2202 words)

	Abrahamic religion - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		All the Abrahamic religions are derived to some extent from Judaism as practiced in ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah prior to the Babylonian Exile, at the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE.
		The Jews believe they are primarily of the tribes found in the Kingdom of Judah, Judah, Benjamin, and Levi (the ten other tribes were lost after the Assyrian invasion of the Kingdom of Israel - see Lost Ten Tribes).
		Haile Selassie claimed to have the root of David, and to be the 225th direct descendant of King David, a figure that mathematically is not credible.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Abrahamic_religion (4035 words)

	2 Chronicles 33 TNIV :: IBS.org
		Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher.
		His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.
		Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace.
	www.ibs.org /niv/print_passagesearch.php?passage_request=2chronicles33&tniv=yes (735 words)

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