211 Manasseh was twelve e years old when he became king , and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem ; and his mother's name was Hephzibah . 2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord , according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before e the sons of Israel . 3 For he rebuilt e the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed ; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah , as Ahab king of Israel had done , and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the Lord , of which the Lord had said , " In Jerusalem I will put My name ." 5 For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord . 6 He made his son pass through the fire , practiced witchcraft and used divination , and dealt with mediums and spiritists . He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger. 7 Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made , in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon , " In this house and in Jerusalem , which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel , I will put My name forever . 8 "And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers , if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them." 9 But they did not listen , and Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before e the sons of Israel .
10 Now the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets , saying , 11 " Because e Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations , having done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols ; 12 therefore thus says the Lord , the God of Israel , 'Behold , I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah , that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle . 13 ' I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab , and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish , wiping it and turning it upside e down . 14 'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies , and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies ; 15 because e they have done evil in My sight , and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt , even to this day .' " 16 Moreover , Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until e he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another ; besides e his sin with which he made Judah sin , in doing evil in the sight of the Lord . 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he committed , are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles e of the Kings of Judah ? 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house , in the garden of Uzza , and Amon his son became king in his place .
19 Amon was twenty-two e years old when he became king , and he reigned two years in Jerusalem ; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah . 20 He did evil in the sight of the Lord , as Manasseh his father had done . 21 For he walked in all the way that his father had walked , and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them. 22 So he forsook the Lord , the God of his fathers , and did not walk in the way of the Lord . 23 The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house . 24 Then the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon , and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place . 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did , are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles e of the Kings of Judah ? 26 He was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza , and Josiah his son became king in his place .
