2 Kings 21:10

2 Kings 21:10 says, And the Lord spake by his servants the prophets, saying,  God spoke to His servants, just as He always has and always will.  God is always involved in the world, unlike what people believe about some false gods who are involved for a while and then go away for a while.  Verse eleven adds, 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:  Manasseh was called out by God for being even worse than the Amorites, who had stood against God and His people.  Manasseh should have known better, but not only sinned himself, but he led the people who were called to be God's to sin as well.  As stated before, it is bad enough if we who should know better sin, but it is even worse if we lead others to sin.  Verse twelve continues, Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. God said He was going to bring such evil on Israel that the rest of the world would have their ears tingle at the news.  As I have stated before, I don't believe that God causes evil, but that he simply allows it to happen by removing His protection from us.   We as Christians should never act in such a way that God has to chastise us and then have the lost people of the world marvel at what has happened.  Verse thirteen states, And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.  God said He was going to allow Jerusalem to meet the same fate as Ahab and Samaria had and He was going to wipe Jerusalem clean or allow it to be totally overrun by its enemies.  We cannot turn away from God as a nation nor as individuals and expect Him to still bless and protect us.  Verse fourteen adds, And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;  God said He was even going to forsake His remnant and they were going to be pray for their enemies.  I believe that God will never forsake His remnant, those who are faithful to Him even in times of trouble spiritually, but He may allow them to be defeated in this world, just as Paul was often imprisoned for example.  Verse fifteen continues, Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.  God said His chosen people, whom He had delivered from bondage in Egypt, had provoked Him ever since they came out of Egypt.  As Christian, God had delivered us from the bondage of sin and the power of death, and yet we often provoke Him by our lack of faith when things or going badly, but I believe even more so when they are going well.  We are often more tempted to forget about God when life is good than we are when it is hard.  Verse sixteen says, Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.  God said Manasseh had shed innocent blood and had led Judah to do so as well.  We should never do what is evil in the sight of God just because the world may say it is okay or even attempt to force us to.  Verse seventeen adds, Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?  We are told that, like the other kings of Judah, that the rest of what Manasseh did was recorded in the chronicles of the kings of Judah.  God knows what we as Christians are doing, and we need to do our best to not have sinful things for Him to make note of.  Verse eighteen continues, And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.  Manasseh died and was buried in the garden of his own house and not with his ancestors.  Then, his son Amon reigned.  Matthew Henry says that we read in Chronicles of Manasseh's repentance, and his burial in his own garden was likely by his own request because he did not feel worthy to be buried with the other kings, though we aren't told that here.  We do have to acknowledge that we will never be worthy of salvation even if we accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and Lord.