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2 Chronicles 33:22

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
2 Chronicles 33:22 · Berean Standard Bible
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  • WEB He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
  • KJV 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;
  • NKJV But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them.
  • NASB He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
  • NLT He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, just as his father, Manasseh, had done. He worshiped and sacrificed to all the idols his father had made.

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Amon does evil like his father Manasseh, sacrificing to and serving all the idols Manasseh had made. He revived his father's idolatry rather than his father's repentance.

Overview

Tragically, Amon copies Manasseh's earlier wickedness rather than his subsequent turning to God. He worships the very images his father had once made and later cast out (cf. vv. 7, 15). The verse shows how the bad example of a parent's sin can be embraced while the good example of repentance is ignored.

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  • 2 Chr 34:3–4In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
  • 2 Kgs 21:20And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
  • Ezek 20:18In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
  • 2 Kgs 21:1–11Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
  • Isa 44:13–20The woodworker extends a measuring line; he marks it out with a stylus; he shapes it with chisels and outlines it with a compass. He fashions it in the likeness of man, like man in all his glory, that it may dwell in a shrine.
  • 2 Chr 33:1–10Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.

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