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Josiah and Manasseh
How Josiah and Manasseh are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.
How they are linked
Manasseh was an ancestor of Josiah.
Josiah was Manasseh's grandson, through Amon. No king before him turned to the Lord as Josiah did, yet Kings says the wrath kindled by Manasseh's provocations was not turned away.
Amon his son reigned in his stead
2 Kings 21:18, King James Version
made Josiah his son king in his stead
2 Kings 21:24, King James Version
because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal
2 Kings 23:26, King James Version
Where they cross: 2 Kings 23:25-26
Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.
Every passage, in order
2 Kings 21:18
18And 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 stead.
2 Kings 21:24
24And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
2 Kings 23:25-26
25And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
King James Version