King James Version
2 Kings 21:9 in the King James Version says “But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before th...” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.”
2 Kings 21:9 · KJV
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, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“But they hearkened”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“seduced”
H8582to vacillate, i.e., reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
“not and Manasseh”
H4519menashsheh, a grandson of jacob, also the tribe descended from him, and its territory
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“than did the nations”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“whom the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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