King manasseh Introduction Manasseh- “one who forgets” Num. 33:50-56 “Drive out, destroy, demolish, dispossess” Dt. 18:9-14 “avoid abominations of the nations” Josh. 23:6-7; 11-13 “Keep the law, love the Lord, have no relations with nations around you” Jud. 1:21, 27, 29-33; 2:1-3, 11-14; 21:25 “They did not drive out the inhabitants…everyone did that which was right in their own eyes” 1 Kings 11:1-13 “Solomon loved many foreign women and his wives turned his heart after other gods and Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord”

King manasseh His Early Commencement (2 Chron. 33:1a): Eccl. 4:13; Prov. 22:15; Eccl. 10:16; 1 Kings 12:8; Job 32:7 His Enduring Continuance (2 Chron. 33:1b): Shows God’s Patience—2 Pet. 3:9, 15; 1 Tim. 1:16; 2 Tim. 2:24-26 His Evil Character (2 Chron. 33:2-10): Irreverence, Idolatry, Inhumanity, Inducement, Insubordination His Enslaving Chains (2 Chron. 33:11): Sin takes you further…keeps you longer…costs you more His Entreaty of Contrition (2 Chron. 33:12-13): Mic. 6:8; 2 Chron. 7:14; Jm. 4:7-10 His Evidenced Conversion (2 Chron. 33:14-17): Mt. 3:8 His Ensured Consequence (2 Chron. 33:21-25): Gal. 6:7