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Manasseh
was twelve years old when he began to reign, and
reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And
his mother's name was Hephzibah.
02 And he did that which was evil in the sight of
the Lord, after the abominations of the heathen,
whom the Lord cast out before the children of
Israel.
03 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.
04 And he built altars in the house of the Lord,
of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put
my name.
05 And he built altars for all the host of heaven
in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
06 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 the Lord, to
provoke him to anger.
07 And he set a graven image of the grove that he
had made in the house, of which the Lord 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:
08 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.
09 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced
them to do more evil than did the nations whom
the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And the Lord spake by his servants the
prophets, saying,
11 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 the Lord 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.
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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 the Lord.
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
the Lord, 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 the Lord God of his fathers,
and walked not in the way of the Lord.
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.
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