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Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king ,
and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem .
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But he did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel .
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For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down ;
he raised up altars for the Baals ,
and made wooden images ;
and he worshiped all the host of heaven and served them .
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He also built altars in the house of the LORD ,
of which the LORD had said , "
In Jerusalem shall My name be forever ."
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And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD .
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Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom ;
he practiced soothsaying ,
used witchcraft and sorcery ,
and consulted mediums and spiritists .
He did much evil in the sight of the LORD ,
to provoke Him to anger .
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He even 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 out of all the tribes of Israel ,
I will put My name forever ;
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and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers--only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them ,
according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses ."
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So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel .
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And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people ,
but they would not listen .
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Therefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria ,
who took Manasseh with hooks ,
bound him with bronze fetters ,
and carried him off to Babylon .
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Now when he was in affliction ,
he implored the LORD his God ,
and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers ,
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and prayed to Him ;
and He received his entreaty ,
heard his supplication ,
and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom .
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God .
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After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon ,
in the valley ,
as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate ;
and it enclosed Ophel ,
and he raised it to a very great height .
Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah .
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He took away the foreign gods and the idol from 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 he cast them out of the city .
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He also repaired the altar of the LORD ,
sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it ,
and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel .
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Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places ,
but only to the LORD their God .
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh ,
his prayer to his God ,
and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel ,
indeed they are written in the book of the kings of Israel .
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Also his prayer and how God received his entreaty ,
and all his sin and trespass ,
and the sites where he built high places and set up wooden images and carved images ,
before he was humbled ,
indeed they are written among the sayings of Hozai .
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So Manasseh rested with his fathers ,
and they buried him in his own house .
Then his son Amon reigned in his place .