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2 ChroniclesChapter 33

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Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the people of Israel.
He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had torn down, raised altars to the Baals, made Asherah poles, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "My name will be in Jerusalem forever."
In both courts of the house of the LORD he built altars to all the host of heaven.
He made his own sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom; he practiced soothsaying and divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great deal of evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
He took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
I will never again remove Israel from the land I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I commanded them—the whole law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses."
But Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the people of Israel.
The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.
So the LORD brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh captive with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and carried him off to Babylon.
In his distress he sought the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself deeply before the God of his fathers.
He prayed to him, and the LORD was moved by his plea and heard his petition. He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.
Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate, and around the Ophel, and he made it very high. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.
He removed the foreign gods and the image from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.
Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
The people, however, still sacrificed at the high places, though only to the LORD their God.
The rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, are recorded in the annals of the kings of Israel.
His prayer and how God was moved by his plea, all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.[^1] [^1]: Or *in the records of Hozai*; the Hebrew word can be read as a personal name.
Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon succeeded him as king.
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
He did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
But he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon only multiplied his guilt.
His servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.
But the people of the land struck down all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
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