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Manasseh
was twelve years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
02 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.
03 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.
04 Also he built altars in the house of the Lord,
whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my
name be for ever.
05 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
06 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.
07 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:
08 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.
09 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.
10 And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his
people: but they would not hearken.
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.
12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the
Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before
the God of his fathers,
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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.
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.
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.
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.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in
the high places, yet unto the Lord their God
only.
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.
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.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they
buried him in his own house: and Amon his son
reigned in his stead.
21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he
began to reign, and reigned two years in
Jerusalem.
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;
23 And humbled not himself before the Lord, as
Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon
trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against him, and
slew him in his own house.
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.
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