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* Manasses (note :)Gr . being (:note ) was twelve years old Gr . in his reigning when he began to reign , and he reigned Alex . fifty years fifty-five years in Jerusalem . * And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , according to all the abominations of the heathen , whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel . * And he returned and built the high places , which his father Ezekias had pulled down , and set up images to Baalim , and made groves , and worshipped all the host of heaven , and served them . * And he built altars in the house of the Lord , concerning which the Lord said , In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever . * And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord . * He also passed his children through the fire in the (note :)See note 2 Ch strkjv @28:3 .(:note ) valley of Benennom ; and he divined , and used auspices , and sorceries , and appointed Lit . ventriloquists those who had divining spirits , and enchanters , and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord , to provoke him . * And he set the graven image , the molten statue , the idol which he made , in the house of God , of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son , In this house , and Jerusalem , which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , I will put my name for ever ; * and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers , if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them , according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgements given by the hand of Moses . * So Manasses led astray Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem , to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel . * And the Lord spoke (note :)Or , against , or , concerning (:note ) to Manasses , and to his people : but they hearkened not . * And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria , and they took Manasses in bonds , and bound him in fetters , and brought him to Babylon . * And when he was afflicted , he sought the face of the Lord his God , and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers ; * and he prayed to him : and he hearkened to him , and listened to his cry , and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom : and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God . * And afterward he built a wall without the city of David , from the southwest southward in the (note :)Gr . torrent (:note ) valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate , as men go out by the gate round about , even as far as Opel : and he raised it much , and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda . * And he removed the strange gods , and the graven image out of the house of the Lord , and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord , and in Jerusalem , and without the city . * And he repaired the altar of the Lord , and offered upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering and (note :)Gr . praise (:note ) thank-offering , and he told Juda to serve the Lord God of Israel . * Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places , only to the Lord their God . * And the rest of the acts of Manasses , and his prayer to God , and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the God of Israel , * behold , they are in the (note :)Gr . words (:note ) account of his prayer ; and God hearkened to him . And all his sins , and his backslidings , and the spots on which he built the high places , and set there groves and graven images , before he repented , behold , they are written in the books of the seers . * And Manasses slept with his fathers , and they buried him in the garden of his house : and Amon his son reigned in his stead . * Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign , and he reigned two years in Jerusalem . * And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord , as his father Manasses did : and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasses had made , and served them . * And he was not humbled before the Lord as his father Manasses was humbled ; for his son Amon abounded in transgression . * And his servants conspired against him , and slew him in his house . * And the people of the land slew the men who had conspired against king Amon ; and the people of the land made Josias his son king in his stead .

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