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Ahab and Manasseh
How Ahab and Manasseh are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Scripture links Manasseh back to Ahab.
2 Kings compares Manasseh with Ahab. He made a grove "as did Ahab king of Israel", and the Lord said Jerusalem would be measured with "the plummet of the house of Ahab".
made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel
2 Kings 21:3, King James Version
the plummet of the house of Ahab
2 Kings 21:13, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Kings 21:1-3
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Kings 21:1-3
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzi-bah.
2And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
3For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Kings 21:13
13And 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 wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
King James Version