2 Chronicles 33:10
“And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.”
Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
Wherefore the Lord 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.
And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
“For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.”
“He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.”
“Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.”
“And the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.”