2Chronicles:33:1-20
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Manas '
seh was twelve years old when he began to reign ,
and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem .
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He did what was evil in the sight of the LORD ,
according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel .
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For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezeki '
ah had broken down ,
and erected altars to the Ba '
als ,
and made Ashe '
rahs ,
and worshiped all the host of heaven ,
and served them .
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And he built altars in the house of the LORD ,
of which the LORD had said , "
In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever ."
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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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And he burned his sons as an offering in the valley of the son of Hinnom ,
and practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery ,
and dealt with mediums and with wizards .
He did much evil in the sight of the LORD ,
provoking him to anger .
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And the image of the idol which he had made he set in the house of God ,
of which God 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 for ever ;
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and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers ,
if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them ,
all the law ,
the statutes ,
and the ordinances given through Moses ."
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Manas '
seh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem ,
so that they did more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel .
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The LORD spoke to Manas '
seh and to his people ,
but they gave no heed .
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Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria ,
who took Manas '
seh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon .
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And when he was in distress he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers .
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He prayed to him ,
and God received his entreaty and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom .
Then Manas '
seh knew that the LORD was God .
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Afterwards he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon ,
in the valley ,
and for the entrance into the Fish Gate ,
and carried it round Ophel ,
and raised it to a very great height ;
he also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah .
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And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD ,
and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem ,
and he threw them outside of the city .
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He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered upon it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving ;
and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD the God of Israel .
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Nevertheless the people still sacrificed at the high places ,
but only to the LORD their God .
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Now the rest of the acts of Manas '
seh ,
and his prayer to his God ,
and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD the God of Israel ,
behold ,
they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel .
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And his prayer ,
and how God received his entreaty ,
and all his sin and his faithlessness ,
and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Ashe '
rim and the images ,
before he humbled himself ,
behold ,
they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers .
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So Manas '
seh slept with his fathers ,
and they buried him in his house ;
and Amon his son reigned in his stead .
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