 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign. And he reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah. 2 He did the evil in the sight of the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built up again the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. And he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel did. And he worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord said, In Jerusalem I will put my name. 5 He built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 He made his son pass through the fire, and observed times and used fortune tellers. And he dealt with mediums+ and wizards. He worked much wickedness in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 He set a graven image of the Asherah that he had made in the house, about which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. 8 I will not again make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land that I gave their fathers. Only if they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 9 But they did not listen. And Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations ever did, whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 The Lord spoke by His servants the prophets saying, 11 Because King Manasseh of Judah has done these abominations, doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols, 12 therefore, thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah, so that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the measuring line of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe Jerusalem as a dish is wiped, wiping and turning it upside down. 14 I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies. They will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies, 15 because they have done the evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even until this day. 16 Also Manasseh shed much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned are written in the book of the kings of Judah. 18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place. 19 Amon was 22 years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 He did the evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did. 21 He walked in all the way that his father walked, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them. 22 He left the Lord God of his fathers and did not walk in the way of the Lord. 23 The servants of Amon plotted against him and killed the king in his own house. 24 The people of the land killed all those who had plotted against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place. 25 The rest of the acts of Amon that he did are written in the books of the kings of Judah. 26 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And his son Josiah reigned in his place.
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