THEOSIS2 Chronicles 33:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And he did not humble himself before the lord, as Manasses his father had humbled himself, but committed far greater sin.
וְלֹ֤א נִכְנַע֙ מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה כְּהִכָּנַ֖ע מְנַשֶּׁ֣ה אָבִ֑יו כִּ֛י ה֥וּא אָמ֖וֹן הִרְבָּ֥ה אַשְׁמָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Chr 33:12And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers.
- 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and his being heard and all his sins, and contempt, and places wherein he built high places, and set up groves, and statues before he did penance, are written in the words of Hozai.
- Jer 8:12They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.
- 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error,
- Jer 7:26And they have not hearkened to me: nor inclined their ear: but have hardened their neck, and have done worse than their fathers.
- 2 Chr 28:22Moreover also in the time of his distress he increased contempt against the Lord: king Achaz himself by himself,
- 2 Chr 33:1Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.