Verse by verse teaching - 2 Kings 21:18 & 2 Chronicles 33:1-12

Brother Andy Sheppard teaches verse by verse through the scriptures with the primary objective of communicating the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation, in a clear and simple light. It's 10.01. We've already lost a minute. Let's turn to 2 Kings. Actually, there are two places I want you to mark in your Bible this morning, so we can go back and forth between them without too much fanfare. The first is the text where we left off last week, and that's 2 Kings chapter 21 and verse 17. And then once you've got that one marked, then find 2 Chronicles chapter 33. Yes, 33. For all who didn't hear, 33. You got it. All right. So it's 2 Kings 21 and then 2 Chronicles 33. And as I told you at the end of last week's lesson, we were about to get into 2 Kings 21 verse 18, where we're going to read about Manasseh's death, and then we move on to the next king. But we're going to pause right here before we let Manasseh die, because we do in fact have some more information about him, and that information is found in 2 Chronicles 33. And if you've been with us very long, you've heard me say several times that the events in 2 Kings and the events in 2 Chronicles are often telling the same story, but just like the Gospels, you'll get more details in one than you may in the other. But that's what we have in this case. And the information that you find in 2 Chronicles 33 is going to change the way you think about Manasseh, I promise you. You may have already read ahead, but it'll change the way you see Manasseh. So let's first read 2 Kings 21 verse 17, and here we go. Glad that you joined us on the Internet if you've just tuned in. "Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?" Now turn to our text for today and for the next few lessons, and that's 2 Chronicles chapter 33. Now I'm going to read the first nine verses of the chapter to show you that it is about the same King Manasseh we've studied in 2 Kings. So I'll read 2 Chronicles 33 verses 1 through 9. "Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Balaam, and made groves, and worshipped all the hosts of heaven, and served them. Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, 'In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.' And he built altars for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord, and he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. Also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards. He wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son, 'In this house, and in Jerusalem which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever. Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers, so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.' So, or in this way, Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel." Alright, so those a...