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.
Parallel translations
- 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;
- BSB 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,
- 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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Cross-references · 6
- 2 Chr 34:3–4For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
- 2 Kgs 21:20He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did.
- Ezek 20:18I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their ordinances, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
- 2 Kgs 21:1–11Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
- Isa 44:13–20The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.
- 2 Chr 33:1–10Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
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