2Chronicles:33:1-20

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* Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign , and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty five years . * And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah , like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the sons of Israel . * For again he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down , and raised up altars for the Baals , and made Asherahs and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens , and served them . * And he built altars in the house of Jehovah , of which Jehovah had said , In Jerusalem shall be My name forever . * And he built altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah . * And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom , and did magic and divined , and used sorcery , and used mediums and conjurers ; he multiplied the doing of the evil in the eyes of Jehovah , to provoke Him to anger . * And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God , of which God had said to David , and to his son Solomon , In this house , and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , I will put My name forever . * And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers ; only , if they take heed to do all that I have commanded them toward all the law , and the statutes , and the ordinances by the hand of Moses . * And Manasseh caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to sin , to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed before the sons of Israel . * And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people , and they did not listen . * And Jehovah brought against them the king of Assyria 's army commanders , and they captured Manasseh with hooks , and bound him with bronze fetters , and made him go to Babylon . * And when he was afflicted , he sought the face of Jehovah his God , and was humbled exceedingly before the face of the God of his fathers ; * and prayed to Him , and He was entreated of him and heard his supplication , and returned him to Jerusalem to his kingdom ; and Manasseh knew that Jehovah , He is God . * And after this he built an outer wall to the city of David , on the west of Gihon , in the valley , and at the entrance of the Fish Gate . And it went around to the tower and he made it exceedingly high , and he put commanders of the army in all the cities of defense in Judah . * And he removed the foreign gods , and the idol out of the house of Jehovah , and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem , and threw them outside the city . * And he built the altar of Jehovah , and sacrificed on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings , and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah , the God of Israel . * But the people still sacrificed in the high places , only to Jehovah their God . * And the rest of the acts of Manasseh , and his prayer to his God , and the things of the seers , who spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel , behold , they are in the Book of the Kings of Israel ; * and his prayer , and his entreaty , and all his sin , and his trespass , and the places in which he had built high places and set up the Asherahs and the graven images before he was humbled , behold , they are written in the Matters of the Seers . * And Manasseh lay with his fathers , and they buried him in his own house . And his son Amon reigned in his place .

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