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* Manasseh [was ] twelve years old when he began to reign . And he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem . And his mother 's name [was ] Hephzibah . * And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD , after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out before the sons of Israel . * For he built up again the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed . And he reared up altars for Baal , and made an Asherah , as Ahab king of Israel did . And he worshiped all the host of heaven , and served them . * And he built altars in the house of the LORD , of which the LORD said , In Jerusalem I will put My name . * And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of the LORD . * And he made his son pass through the fire , and observed times and used fortune-tellers . And he dealt with familiar spirits and wizards . He worked much wickedness in the sight of the LORD , to provoke [Him ] to anger . * And he set a graven image of the Asherah which he had made in the house , of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son , In this house , and in Jerusalem , which 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 will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them , and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them . * But they did not listen . And Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations ever did , whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel . * And the LORD spoke by His servants the prophets , saying , * Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations , doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did , who were before him , and has made Judah also to sin with his idols , * therefore , so says the LORD God of Israel , Behold , I [am ] bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah , so that whoever hears of it , both his ears shall tingle . * And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria , and the measuring line of the house of Ahab . And I will wipe Jerusalem as a dish is wiped , wiping and turning [it ] upside down . * And I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance , and deliver them into the hand of their enemies . And they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies , * because they have done the evil in My sight , and have provoked Me to anger , since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even until this day . * And also Manasseh shed very much innocent blood , until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another , besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin , in doing the evil in the sight of the LORD . * Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh , and all that he did , and his sin which he sinned , [are ] they not written in the Book of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And Manasseh slept with his fathers , and was buried in the garden of his own house , in the garden of Uzza . And his son Amon reigned in his place . * Amon [was ] twenty-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 . * And he did the evil in the sight of the LORD , as his father Manasseh did . * And he walked in all the way that his father walked , and served the idols which his father served , and worshiped them . * And [he ] left Jehovah God of his fathers , and did not walk in the way of the LORD . * And the servants of Amon plotted against him and killed the king in his own house . * And the people of the land killed all those who had plotted against King Amon . And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place . * And the rest of the acts of Amon which he did , [are ] they not written in the Books of the Matters of the Days of the Kings of Judah ? * And [he was ] buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza . And his son Josiah reigned in his place .

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