And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying,
And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God. He did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.
I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
However, some men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
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