Bible Strands
2 Kings 21:11
“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
Berean Standard Bible
Follow its threads on the canvas →
Study note
Setting — The LORD speaks through His prophets to Judah, declaring judgment following Manasseh’s reign of idolatry. This pronouncement directly follows the prophetic warning in 2 Kings 21:10 and introduces the calamity detailed in 2 Kings 21:12.
The words — יַעַן (ya‘an) means “because” or “since,” establishing the causal ground for the coming judgment. תּוֹעֵבֹת (to‘evot) translates as “abominations,” denoting the specific detestable idolatrous practices Manasseh enacted in Judah.
The thread — The comparison to the Amorites appears in 1 Kings 21:26, which cites the same standard of detestable acts. The resulting national judgment is later attributed to this exact sin in 2 Kings 24:3, while 2 Kings 21:9 records the people’s refusal to heed the warning.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to recognize that covenant leadership’s idolatry directly triggers national judgment. It demands acknowledgment that persistent sin, when legitimized by authority, carries irreversible consequences.
Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.
The Hebrew words
King James Version
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
Cross-references
- 1 Kings 21:26 He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)
- 2 Kings 24:3 Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
- 2 Kings 21:9 But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- Jeremiah 15:4 I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.
- Genesis 15:16 In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”
- 1 Kings 14:16 So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”
- 1 Kings 15:30 because of the sins Jeroboam had committed and had caused Israel to commit, and because he had provoked the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger.
- 1 Kings 16:19 because of the sins he had committed, doing evil in the sight of the LORD and following the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had committed and had caused Israel to commit.
- 2 Kings 21:2 And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.