1
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.
And his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.
2
And he did that which was evil in the sight of JEHOVAH,
after the abominations of the heathen, whom JEHOVAH
cast out before the children of Israel.
3
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father
had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove,
as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven,
and served them.
4
And he built altars in the house of JEHOVAH,
of which JEHOVAH said,
In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts
of the house of JEHOVAH.
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 JEHOVAH,
to provoke him to anger.
7
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house,
of which JEHOVAH 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:
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Neither will I make the feet of Israel move
any more out of the land which I gave their fathers;
only if they will observe 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 hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil
than did the nations whom JEHOVAH destroyed before
the children of Israel.
10
And JEHOVAH spake by his servants the prophets,
saying,
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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:
12
Therefore thus saith JEHOVAH God of Israel,
Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem
and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it,
both his ears shall tingle.
13
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the
line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab:
and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it,
and turning it upside down.
14
And I will forsake the remnant of mine
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies;
and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15
Because they have done that which was evil
in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their
fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very
much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another;
beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that
which was evil in the sight of JEHOVAH.
17
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did,
and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the
book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
18
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in
the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza:
and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
19
Amon was twenty and two 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
And he did that which was evil in the sight of JEHOVAH,
as his father Manasseh did.
21
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in,
and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22
And he forsook JEHOVAH God of his fathers,
and walked not in the way of JEHOVAH.
23
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king
in his own house.
24
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired
against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his
son king in his stead.
25
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did,
are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
26
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza:
and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
