2 Kings 21

¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.

²And he did what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel.

³He rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

⁴And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

⁵He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.

⁶And he made his son pass through the fire, and he practiced divination and augury, and he appointed a medium and spiritists. He multiplied doing what was evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

⁷And he set the carved image of the Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

⁸I will not again cause the feet of Israel to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, provided that they are careful to do all that I commanded them, and all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

⁹But they did not obey, and Manasseh led them astray to do more bad than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the people of Israel.

¹⁰And the LORD spoke through his servants the prophets, saying,

¹¹Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly beyond all that the Amorites did who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols --

¹²Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing disaster upon Jerusalem and Judah, such that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

¹³And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

¹⁴And I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoils of war to all their enemies.

¹⁵Because they have done what is bad in my sight, and have been provoking me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.

¹⁶Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from end to end, besides the sin he had made Judah commit by doing what was evil in the eyes of the Lord.

¹⁷Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

¹⁸And Manasseh lay down with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his palace, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son reigned in his place.

¹⁹Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

²⁰He did what was bad in the eyes of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done.

²¹He walked in all the ways his father had walked, and served the idols his father had served, and worshiped them.

²²And he forsook the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

²³And the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his house.

²⁴But the people of the land struck down all who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

²⁵Now the rest of the deeds of Amon that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Judah?

²⁶And they buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.