2 Kings 24:4 meaning and explanation

and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

2 Kings 24:4, Berean Standard Bible

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The narrator explains why Judah fell to Babylon: not merely politics but covenant judgment. Manasseh, king in the previous century, had shed innocent blood on a scale that filled Jerusalem, and the verse says the LORD was unwilling to forgive.

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