Key Verse Spotlight
2 Chronicles 33:20 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.”
2 Chronicles 33:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they {are written} in the book of the kings of Israel.
His prayer also, and {how God} was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they {are} written among the sayings of the seers. {the seers: or, Hosai}
So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
Amon {was} two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
But he did {that which was} evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
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