Twenty-Fifth Stop But Menashe also had a personal revival near the end of his life:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom Y’hovah had destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 And Y’hovah spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
Twenty-Fifth Stop 11 Wherefore Y’hovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in affliction, he besought Y’hovah his Eloha, and humbled himself greatly before the Eloha of his fathers,
Twenty-Fifth Stop 13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Y’hovah he was Eloha. 14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Twenty-Fifth Stop 15 And he took away the strange elohim, and the idol out of the house of Y’hovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Y’hovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16 And he repaired the altar of Y’hovah, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve Y’hovah Eloha of Israel.
Twenty-Fifth Stop - 17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto Y’hovah their Eloha only. (2Chr.33.9-17)
Menashe’s revival was not enough to get him buried among his fathers, but in his own property.
Twenty-Fifth Stop I think he was throughly humbled by Y’hovah and thought himself unworthy to be buried among his fathers. So, in the end, Menashe became firm in his trust in and service to Y’hovah. Remember that the stop is Hashmonah, firm or capacious in resources. Menashe’s latter end was all of that.
Twenty-Sixth Stop Next stop is #26, Moseroth, where for the 12th straight camp, nothing of import happened. Moseroth means ‘corrections’. The Moshiach’s ancestor corresponding to this stop is Amon.
Twenty-Sixth Stop Amon was as wicked as his father had been until his humbling, who ‘brought him up’ (the root word, H239 aman, from which Amon’s name is derived means ‘brought up’ or nurtured) to be a pagan.
Twenty-Sixth Stop Amon was SO wicked Y’hovah only let him reign for 2 years. Judging by his mother’s and maternal grandfather’s names he was firmly rooted in his wickedness, so much so that noone could trust him and he was killed by a conspiracy of his friends and servants in his own house.
Twenty-Seventh Stop Stop #27 is Beneja’akan, which means ‘sons of twisting’ or ‘tortuous sons’. This 13th eventless camp corresponds to Yeshua’s umpteenth grandfather, YoshiYahu, who began to reign when he was 8 years old. His adviser was HilkiYahu, the Kohen haGadol. In the 18th year of his reign he ordered a general clean up of the Temple.
Twenty-Seventh Stop This included losing the images of the groves that his grand-pappy had set up and to which his papa had gone after with reckless abandon. In the clean-up process, what to their wondering eyes should appear but the Torah scroll. Noone had SEEN it since at LEAST Menashe’s time, 20-some years before.
Twenty-Seventh Stop 2Ki.22,8, 10-20 - 8 And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Y’hovah. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it… 10 And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book. And Shaphan read it before the king.
Twenty-Seventh Stop 11 And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes. 12 And the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Achbor the son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah a servant of the king', saying,
Twenty-Seventh Stop 13 Go ye, enquire of Y’hovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of Y’hovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.
Twenty-Seventh Stop 14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
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