The Sunday School Lesson Manasseh The Wicked by David McGee
Jan 14, 2018
Manasseh The Wicked (37:54)
Referenced Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 33:1-20; 2 Kings 21:1-16
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In simple terms, repentance is a godly sorrow for sin and a turning from that sin to follow the Lord. Repentance speaks to two important facts. FIrst, we are guilty of sin. We cannot dismiss or minimize the reality of sin and its horrible consequences. We need a Savior.
Second, repentance speaks to the reality of God's grace. For the Christian, repentance means we have Someone to turn to. We turn to Christ, finding forgiveness and salvation.
Today's study examines the complicated life and reign of Manasseh. In him we see both the horrible degradation of sin as well as the promise of restoration realized in those who turn to God.
The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
2 Chronicles 33:1-20
1) Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2) He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
3) For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of the sky, and served them.
4) He built altars in the house of Yahweh, whereof Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
5) He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
6) He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
7) He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, 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:
8) neither will I 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 and the statutes and the ordinances [given] by Moses.
9) Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
10) Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.
11) Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12) When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13) He prayed to him; and he was entreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh he was God.
14) Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15) He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
16) He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.
17) Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God.
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.
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 Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
20) So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
2 Kings 21:1-16
1) Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother‘s name was Hephzibah.
2) He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
3) For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of the sky, and served them.
4) He built altars in the house of Yahweh, whereof Yahweh said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5) He built altars for all the host of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
6) He made his son to pass through the fire, and practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
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;
8) neither will I 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.
9) But they didn‘t listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
10) Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,
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 made Judah also to sin with his idols;
12) therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13) I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14) I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15) because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even to this day.
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 the sight of Yahweh.
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