{"id":2182,"date":"2012-09-23T22:08:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2012-09-25T08:38:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T12:38:39","slug":"so-inclined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"So inclined"},"content":{"rendered":"

So [King] Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.\u00a0And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.\u00a0Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.\u00a0Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,\u00a0and prayed to Him; and [the Lord] received his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.\u00a0\u00a0After this…he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city.\u00a0He also repaired the altar of the Lord, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.\u00a0 2 Chronicles 33:9-16<\/em><\/p>\n

Would it have been all that surprising to us to read that the Lord refused to hear the prayer of Manasseh, refused to come to his aid because of his great wickedness?\u00a0 After all, he “seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel”!\u00a0 But so great is the Lord’s compassion, so inclined is He to be merciful, that when wicked King Manasseh humbles himself and prays, the Lord hears him and restores his kingdom to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So [King] Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.\u00a0And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.\u00a0Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, … <\/p>\n

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