Exodus 9:16
16 aBut for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so bthat my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.1 Samuel 2:8
8 cHe raises up the poor from the dust;he lifts the needy from the ash heap
dto make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
eFor the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and on them he has set the world.
1 Kings 21:25
Ahab’s Repentance
25( fThere was none who sold himself to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord like Ahab, whom Jezebel his wife incited.2 Kings 21:6-18
6 gAnd he burned his son as an offering ▼▼Hebrew made his son pass through the fire
and iused fortune-telling and jomens and dealt kwith mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7And the carved image of lAsherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, mand in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. 8 nAnd I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.” 9But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel. Manasseh’s Idolatry Denounced
10And the Lord said by his servants the prophets, 11 o“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things pmore evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, qand has made Judah also to sin rwith his idols, 12therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing upon Jerusalem and Judah such disaster ▼▼Or evil
that the ears of everyone who hears of it twill tingle. 13 uAnd I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14And I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, 15because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.” 16 vMoreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin wthat he made Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
17 xNow the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? 18 yAnd Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, zin the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
2 Chronicles 28:22
Ahaz’s Idolatry
22In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.Daniel 4:25
25 aathat you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made abto eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and acseven periods of time shall pass over you, till adyou know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.Daniel 11:21
21In his place shall arise a contemptible person to whom royal majesty has not been given. aeHe shall come in without warning and obtain the kingdom afby flatteries.
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