King Manasseh was a horrifically wicked king over God’s people:
2 Kings 21:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
2 Kings 21:9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
2 Kings 21:11 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:
In spite of all that God has revealed about the wickedness of Manasseh, including his being an exceedingly wicked idolater and his being involved in multiple occult practices, the Spirit does not say anything about his ever being possessed by a demon.
If direct biblical statement is required for us to know who was and was not demon possessed, we would have to say that he was not ever possessed. If so, we would have to understand that even exceedingly wicked involvement in idolatry and the occult does not guarantee that a person necessarily will become demon possessed by doing so.
Was king Manasseh ever demon possessed? If he was, why did the Spirit never tell us that he was?
If he was not ever possessed, what does that teach us about the causes of demon possession?
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