MANASSEH

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• Genesis 41:50

  To Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 41:51

  Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, “For”, he said, “God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.”

• Genesis 46:20

  To Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, bore to him.

• Genesis 48:1

  After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

• Genesis 48:5

  Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh, even as Reuben and Simeon, will be mine.

• Genesis 48:6

  Your issue, whom you become the father of after them, will be yours. They will be called after the name of their brothers in their inheritance.

• Genesis 48:7

  As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

• Genesis 48:8

  Israel saw Joseph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?”

• Genesis 48:9

  Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” He said, “Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.”

• Genesis 48:10

  Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn’t see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

• Genesis 48:11

  Israel said to Joseph, “I didn’t think I would see your face, and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

• Genesis 48:12

  Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

• Genesis 48:13

  Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near to him.

• Genesis 48:14

  Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

• Genesis 48:15

  He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,

• Genesis 48:16

  the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

• Genesis 48:17

  When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

• Genesis 48:18

  Joseph said to his father, “Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.”

• Genesis 48:19

  His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.”

• Genesis 48:20

  He blessed them that day, saying, “In you will Israel bless, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.

• Genesis 49:25

  even by the God of your father, who will help you; by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

• Genesis 49:26

  The blessings of your father have prevailed above the blessings of your ancestors, above the boundaries of the ancient hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers.

• Numbers 1:34

  Of the children of Manasseh, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;

• Numbers 1:35

  those who were counted of them, of the tribe of Manasseh, were thirty-two thousand two hundred.

• Numbers 2:18

  “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to their divisions: and the prince of the children of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud.

• Numbers 2:20

  “Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

• Numbers 10:22

  The standard of the camp of the children of Ephraim set forward according to their armies. Elishama the son of Ammihud was over his army.

• Numbers 10:23

  Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur was over the army of the tribe of the children of Manasseh.

• Numbers 26:29

  The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites; and Machir became the father of Gilead; of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.

• Numbers 26:30

  These are the sons of Gilead: of Iezer, the family of the Iezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helekites;

• Numbers 26:31

  and Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

• Numbers 26:32

  and Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

• Numbers 26:33

  Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 26:34

  These are the families of Manasseh. Those who were counted of them were fifty-two thousand seven hundred.

• Numbers 32:33

  Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

• Numbers 32:39

  The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

• Numbers 32:40

  Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

• Numbers 32:41

  Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

• Numbers 32:42

  Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

• Deuteronomy 3:18

  I commanded you at that time, saying, “Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it. You shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.

• Deuteronomy 3:19

  But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

• Deuteronomy 3:20

  until Yahweh gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also possess the land which Yahweh your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then you shall each return to his own possession, which I have given you.”

• Deuteronomy 33:13

  About Joseph he said, “His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,

• Deuteronomy 33:14

  for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, for the precious things that the moon can yield,

• Deuteronomy 33:15

  for the best things of the ancient mountains, for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

• Deuteronomy 33:16

  for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.

• Deuteronomy 33:17

  The firstborn of his herd, majesty is his. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples, to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

• Joshua 1:12

  Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,

• Joshua 1:13

  “Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, ‘Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.

• Joshua 1:14

  Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them

• Joshua 1:15

  until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’”

• Joshua 4:12

  The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

• Joshua 4:13

  About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

• Joshua 16:9

  together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

• Joshua 17:5

  Ten parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan;

• Joshua 17:6

  because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

• Joshua 17:7

  The border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah.

• Joshua 17:8

  The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.

• Joshua 17:9

  The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and ended at the sea.

• Joshua 17:10

  Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border. They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

• Joshua 17:11

  Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.

• Judges 18:30

  The children of Dan set up for themselves the engraved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

• 2 Kings 10:33

  from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

• 2 Kings 21:1

  Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.

• 2 Kings 21:2

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

• 2 Kings 21:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• 2 Kings 21:4

  He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”

• 2 Kings 21:5

  He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 21:6

  He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• 2 Kings 21:7

  He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;

• 2 Kings 21:8

  I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

• 2 Kings 21:9

  But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.

• 2 Kings 21:10

  Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

• 2 Kings 21:11

  “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols;

• 2 Kings 21:12

  therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle.

• 2 Kings 21:13

  I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

• 2 Kings 21:14

  I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies,

• 2 Kings 21:15

  because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”

• 2 Kings 21:16

  Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

• 2 Kings 21:17

  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 21:18

  Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

• 1 Chronicles 9:3

  In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:

• 1 Chronicles 12:19

  Some of Manasseh also joined David, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battle; but they didn’t help them; for the lords of the Philistines sent him away after consultation, saying, “He will desert to his master Saul to the jeopardy of our heads.”

• 1 Chronicles 12:31

  Of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, who were mentioned by name, to come and make David king.

• 2 Chronicles 15:9

  He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who lived with them out of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon; for they came to him out of Israel in abundance when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

• 2 Chronicles 33:1

  Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 33:2

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 33:3

  For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

• 2 Chronicles 33:4

  He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

• 2 Chronicles 33:5

  He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 33:6

  He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• 2 Chronicles 33:7

  He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.

• 2 Chronicles 33:8

  I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”

• 2 Chronicles 33:9

  Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did.

• 2 Chronicles 33:10

  Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

• 2 Chronicles 33:11

  Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 33:12

  When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 33:13

  He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 33:15

  He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

• 2 Chronicles 33:16

  He built up Yahweh’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 33:17

  Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.

• 2 Chronicles 33:18

  Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 33:19

  His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

• 2 Chronicles 33:20

  So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 34:6

  He did this in the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, even to Naphtali, around in their ruins.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  He broke down the altars, and beat the Asherah poles and the engraved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, then returned to Jerusalem.

• Ezra 10:30

  Of the sons of Pahathmoab: Adna, and Chelal, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattaniah, Bezalel, and Binnui, and Manasseh.

• Ezra 10:33

  Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.

• Ezekiel 48:4

  By the border of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

• Revelation 7:6

  of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,