2Chronicles:33

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* Manasseh was twelve sh @nayim # years old when he began to reign , and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem : * But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD , like unto the abominations of the heathen , whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down , and he reared up altars for Baalim Ba #al #, and made groves , and worshipped all the host of heaven , and served them . * Also he built altars in the house of the LORD , whereof the LORD had said , In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever . * And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD . * And he causedhis children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom : also he observed times , and used enchantments , and used witchcraft , and dealt with a familiar spirit , and with wizards yidd @#oniy #: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD , to provoke him to anger . * And he set a carved image , the idol which he had made , in the house of God , of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son , In this house , and in Jerusalem , which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel Yisra #el #, will I put my name for ever : * Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers ; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them , according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses . * So Manasseh madeJudah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err , and to do worse than the heathen , whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel Yisra #el #. * And the LORD spake to Manasseh , and to his people : but they would not hearken . * Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria , which took Manasseh among the thorns , and bound him with fetters , and carried him to Babylon . * And when he was in affliction , he besought the LORD his God , and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers , * And prayed unto him : and he was intreated of him , and heard his supplication , and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom . Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God . * Now after this he built a wall without the city of David , on the west side of Gihon , in the valley , even to the entering in at the fish gate sha #ar #, and compassed about Ophel , and raised it up a very great height m @#od #, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah . * And he took away the strange gods , and the idol out of the house of the LORD , and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD , and in Jerusalem , and cast them out of the city . * And he repaired the altar of the LORD , and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings , and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #. * Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places , yet unto the LORD their God only . * Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh , and his prayer unto his God , and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel Yisra #el #, behold , they are written in the book of the kings of Israel Yisra #el #. * His prayer also , and how God was intreated of him , and all his sin chatta #ah #, and his trespass ma #al #, and the places wherein he built high places , and set up groves and graven images , before he was humbled : behold , they are written among the sayings of the seers . * So Manasseh slept with his fathers , and they buried him in his own house : and Amon his son reigned in his stead . * Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign , and reigned two years in Jerusalem . * But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD , as did Manasseh his father : for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made , and served them ; * And humbled not himself before the LORD , as Manasseh his father had humbled himself ; but Amon trespassed more and more . * And his servants conspired against him , and slew him in his own house . * But 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 .

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