2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Manasseh	מְנַשֶּׁה֙ me.na.Sheh	H4519	Menashsheh · proper noun, a man's name
shed	שָׁפַ֤ךְ sha.Fakh	H8210	to spill forth (blood · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
innocent	נָקִ֜י na.Ki	H5355	innocent · adjective, masculine singular absolute
blood	דָּ֨ם dam	H1818	blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or… · noun, common masculine singular absolute
very	מְאֹ֔ד me.'Od	H3966	properly · cardinal number, masculine singular absolute
much	הַרְבֵּ֣ה har.Beh	H7235	to increase (in whatever respect) · verb, hiphil infinitive absolute
filled	מִלֵּ֥א mi.Le'	H4390	to fill or (intransitively) be full of · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Jerusalem	יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם ye.ru.sha.Lim	H3389	Jerushalaim or Jerushalem · proper noun, a place name
end	פֶּ֣ה peh	H6310	the mouth (as the means of blowing) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
another	לָפֶ֑ה la.Peh	H6310	the mouth (as the means of blowing) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
sin	מֵֽחַטָּאתוֹ֙ me.cha.ta.To	H2403	an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness) · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
Judah	יְהוּדָ֔ה ye.hu.Dah	H3063	Jehudah (or Judah) · proper noun, a place name
sin	הֶחֱטִ֣יא he.che.Ti'	H2398	properly · verb, hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
doing	לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת la.'a.Sot	H6213	to do or make · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
evil	הָרַ֖ע ha.Ra'	H7451	bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral) · definite article + adjective, masculine singular absolute
sight	בְּעֵינֵ֥י be.'ei.Nei	H5869	an eye (literally or figuratively) · preposition + noun, common feminine dual construct
LORD	יְהוָֽה Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Numbers 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed t…
2 Kings 21:11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him,…
2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the chi…
Exodus 32:21 And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Deuteronomy 21:8-9 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the…
1 Kings 14:15-16 For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their…
2 Kings 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house…
2 Kings 24:3-4 Surely at the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:10-18

Here is the doom of Judah and Jerusalem read, and it is heavy doom. The prophets were sent, in the first place, to teach them the knowledge of God, to remind them of their duty and direct them in it. If they succeeded not in that, their next work was to reprove them for their sins, and to set them in view before them, that they might repent and reform, and return to their duty. If in this they prevailed not, but sinners went on frowardly, their next work was to foretel the judgments of God, that the terror of them might awaken those to repentance who would not be made sensible of the obligations of his love, or else that the execution of them, in their season, might be a demonstration of the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood--Not content with the patronage and the practice of idolatrous abomination, he was a cruel persecutor of all who did not conform. The land was deluged with the blood of good men; among whom it is traditionally said Isaiah suffered a horrid death, by being sawn asunder (see on Heb 11:37).

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 21:16

Shed innocent blood very much - Like the deities he worshipped, he was fierce and cruel; an unprincipled, merciless tyrant: he slew innocent people and God's prophets.

John Gill on 2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed innocent blood very much,.... Putting to death the prophets that reproved him and his people for their idolatries, and such who would not comply therewith; and it is commonly said, both by Jewish and Christian writers, that Isaiah was slain, and even sawn asunder by him; see Gill on Hebrews 11:37, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; a metaphor taken from filling a vessel brimful: beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord; the sin of idolatry he drew them into, and even obliged them to commit.

Dictionary and topics

Kings, The Books of — The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division into two books was first made by the LXX., which now, with the Vulgate, numbers them as the third…
Manasseh — Who makes to forget. “God hath made me forget” (Heb. nashshani), Gen. 41:51. (1.) The elder of the two sons of Joseph. He and his brother Ephraim were afterwards adopted by Jacob as his own sons…
Persecution — The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers of God among the Jews in the days of Ahab, when that king, at the…
Kings · Who reigned over Judah: Manasseh — Who reigned over Judah: Manasseh
Murder · Exemplified: Manasseh — Exemplified: Manasseh

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

2 Kings 21:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:10-18

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 21:16

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 21:16

John Gill on 2 Kings 21:16

Dictionary and topics

2 Kings 21:16

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 21:10-18

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Kings 21:16

Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 21:16

John Gill on 2 Kings 21:16

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 21:1-18

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Kings 21:16

Rashi on 2 Kings 21:13