Assim Foi a Vida de Manassés em Tempos da Bíblia | 697 a.C. | O Rei mais Ímpio da História de Judá

Who was Manasseh, the king who ascended the throne of Jerusalem at the age of twelve and reigned for fifty-five uninterrupted years over Judah—the longest reign in the entire history of the southern kingdom? The biological son of Hezekiah, one of the holiest kings in the history of the Hebrew people, he grew up within the palace listening to his own father's testimony about the night when one hundred and eighty-five thousand Assyrian soldiers died around the walls of Jerusalem in response to a single prayer. And yet, he chose the opposite path. He rebuilt altars to foreign gods. He installed an Asherah pole inside Solomon's own Temple. He consulted mediums and sorcerers. According to the sacred text, he filled Jerusalem with so much innocent blood that it overflowed from one end of the holy city to the other. And he burned his own young son in the fire of the Valley of Ben Hinnom. In this video, we travel to seventh-century BC Jerusalem and follow the complete arc of Manasseh's life — from Hezekiah's palace, through the abominations within the Temple, the tribute paid to the Assyrian Empire of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal (documented in cuneiform on the Esarhaddon Prism, preserved today in the British Museum), the humiliation of being dragged with metal hooks to a dungeon in Babylon, to the prayer on the floor of that cell that changed the course of the history of the Hebrew people. One of the most surprising twists in the entire Old Testament, told with historical and documentary accuracy. 📚 BIBLE REFERENCES Second Kings, chapter twenty-one, verses one to eighteen — The reign of Manasseh and the abominations practiced in Jerusalem Second Chronicles, chapter thirty-three, verses one to twenty — The complete narrative including the imprisonment in Babylon, the prayer, and the restoration to the throne Second Kings, chapter eighteen, verse five — The biblical assessment of the reign of Hezekiah, father of Manasseh Second Kings, chapter nineteen, verse thirty-five — The destruction of Sennacherib's army before the walls of Jerusalem Deuteronomy, chapter eighteen, verses ten to twelve — The prohibition of divination, witchcraft, and necromancy Leviticus, chapter eighteen, verse twenty-one — The prohibition of child sacrifice to Molech Second Kings, chapter twenty-three, verses ten to twelve — The reforms of Josiah, grandson of Manasseh, undoing what remained of the practices Idolaters Hebrews, chapter eleven, verse thirty-seven — The mention of the heroes of faith sawn in half, traditionally understood as a reference to Isaiah Prayer of Manasseh — Greek deuterocanonical text preserving the Jewish tradition about the king's supplication in the Babylonian prison 🏺 HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOURCES Prism of Esarhaddon — Hexagonal clay column discovered in the ruins of Nineveh in the nineteenth century, currently preserved in the British Museum in London, listing Manasseh of Judah in cuneiform among the twenty-two vassal kings of the west who sent tribute to the Assyrian emperor Prism of Ashurbanipal — Second nominal mention of Manasseh as a vassal of Esarhaddon's successor Babylonian Talmud, tractate Yebamoth, folio forty-nine — Rabbinic tradition about the persecution of the prophets during the reign of Manasseh Ascension of Isaiah — Pseudepigraphical text from the first or second century CE describing the tradition of executing the prophet Assyrian reliefs from the Palace of Nineveh — Alabaster blocks preserved in the British Museum and the Louvre documenting the practice of leading vassal kings with metal hooks Archaeological excavations in Jerusalem — Remains of the outer wall of the City of David enlarged by Manasseh after the restoration Assyrian Annals of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal — Imperial cuneiform records on tax policy in the western part of the Empire Flavius ​​Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, Book Ten — Historical reference to the reign of Manasseh Israel Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University — Archaeological context of the kingdom of Judah in the seventh century BC Amélie Kuhrt, The Ancient Near East — Scholarly reference on the vassal structure of the Assyrian Empire during the period of Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal 🎬 ABOUT THE CHANNEL Here we tell the stories of the Bible as they really happened, based on archaeology, extra-biblical historical sources and the sacred text itself. Cinematic documentaries about the Old and New Testaments, in Portuguese, for those who want to understand the biblical world in depth. Subscribe to the channel to follow the next stories. #Manasseh #KingManasseh #OldTestament #BiblicalHistory #Bible #KingsOfJudah #Hezekiah #Josiah #AssyrianEmpire #Ashurbanipal #Nineveh #Babylon #ProphetIsaiah #BiblicalArchaeology #BiblicalDocumentary #BibleStudy #KingsOfTheBible #TempleOfSolomon #Jerusalem #Repentance