2 Chronicles 33:2
Good News Translation
Following the disgusting practices of the nations whom the LORD had driven out of the land as his people advanced, Manasseh sinned against the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

Contemporary English Version
Manasseh disobeyed the LORD by following the disgusting customs of the nations that the LORD had forced out of Israel.

New American Bible
He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the Israelites.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:

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2 Chronicles 28:3 It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem.

Leviticus 18:24-30 Defile not yourselves with any of these things with which all the nations have been defiled, which I will cast out before you, . . .

Leviticus 20:22,23 Keep my laws and my judgments, and do them: lest the land into which you are to enter to dwell therein, vomit you also out. . . .

Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

Deuteronomy 18:9,14 When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God shall give thee, beware lest thou have a mind to imitate the abominations of those nations. . . .

2 Kings 17:11,15 And they burnt incense there upon altars, after the manner of the nations which the Lord had removed from their face: and they did wicked things, provoking the Lord. . . .

2 Kings 21:2,9 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel. . . .

Ezra 9:14 That we should not turn away, nor break thy commandments, nor join in marriage with the people of these abominations. Art thou angry with us unto utter destruction, not to leave us a remnant to be saved?

Psalm 106:35-40 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works: . . .

Ezekiel 11:12 And you shall know that I am the Lord: because you have not walked in my commandments, and have not done my judgments, but you have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you.

Context
Manasseh Reigns in Judah
1Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:3And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 28:3
It was he that burnt incense in the valley of Benennom, and consecrated his sons in the fire according to the manner of the nations, which the Lord slew at the coming of the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:22
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done: he sacrificed to all the idols which Manasses his father had made, and served them.

Jeremiah 15:4
And I will give them up to the rage of all the kingdoms of the earth: because of Manasses the son of Ezechias the king of Juda, for all that he did in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 33:1
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