1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to
reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 And
he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD
cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For
he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and
he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and
worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 And
he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem
will I put my name.
5 And
he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of
the LORD.
6 And
he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used
enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much
wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to
anger.
7 And
he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the
LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
8 Neither
will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their
fathers; only if 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 hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the
nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
10 And
the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 Because
Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath
done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before
him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
12 Therefore
thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil
upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall
tingle.
13 And
I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house
of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
14 And
I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand
of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their
enemies;
15 Because
they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me
to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this
day.
16 Moreover
Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one
end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD.
17 Now
the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he
sinned, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles 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 reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was twenty
and 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.
20 And
he did that which was evil
in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21 And
he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that
his father served, and worshipped them:
22 And
he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
23 And
the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 And
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.
25 Now
the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26 And
he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son
reigned in his stead.
