2Kings:21:1-18

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* Manasseh was a son of twelve years when he began to reign , and he reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem , and the name of his mother was Hephzibah . * And he did the evil in the eyes of Jehovah , according to the idolatries of the nations that Jehovah expelled from before the sons of Israel . * And he built again the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed , and raised up altars for Baal , and made a shrine , as did Ahab the king of Israel , and worshiped 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 I will put My name . * And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of Jehovah 's house . * And he made his son to pass through the fire , used magic , and used divination , and dealt with mediums and soothsayers . He expanded to work the evil in the eyes of Jehovah , to provoke Him to anger . * And he set a graven image of the Asherah that he made in the house of which Jehovah 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 make the feet of Israel wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers ; only if they observe to do all that I commanded them , and to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them . * But they did not listen , and Manasseh caused them to do evil above the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the sons of Israel . * And Jehovah spoke by His servants the prophets , saying , * Because Manasseh the king of Judah has done these abominations , doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did before him , and has made Judah also to sin with his idols , * therefore so says Jehovah , the God of Israel , Behold , I am bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah , so that whoever hears of it , his two ears shall tingle . * And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the line of Samaria , and the plummet of the house of Ahab , and shall wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish (he wipes and turns it on its face ). * And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance , and give them into the hand of their enemies ; and they shall be for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies , * because they have done evil in My eyes , and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt , even to this day . * And also Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood , till he has filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth ; apart from his sin that he caused Judah to sin , to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah . * And 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 Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And Manasseh lay with his fathers , and was buried in the garden of his house in the Garden of Uzza . And his son Amon reigned in his place .

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