2 Kings 21:9 meaning and explanation
But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:9, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator sums up Manasseh's reign: the king of Judah, son of the reforming Hezekiah, did not merely sin himself but led his people astray, so that they outdid the Canaanite nations the LORD had driven out before Israel. The Hebrew verb translated "led astray" carries the sense of causing someone to wander or go wrong.
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