2 Chronicles
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned
fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
33:2 But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the
abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the
children of Israel.
33:3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken
down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
33:4 Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had
said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the
house of the LORD.
33:6 And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the
son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used
witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he
wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
33:7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of
God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this
house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of
Israel, will I put my name for ever:
33:8 Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land
which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to
do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the
statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to
do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the
children of Israel.
33:10 And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not
hearken.
33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the
king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him
with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his
supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then
Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west
side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate,
and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put
captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the
LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of
the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
33:16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace
offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God
of Israel.
33:17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto
the LORD their God only.
33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and
the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of
Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and
his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up
groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are
written among the sayings of the seers.
33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own
house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned
two years in Jerusalem.
33:22 But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh
his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which
Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
33:23 And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.
33:24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.
33:25 But 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.
