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33 : 1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
33 : 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of theLord, according tothe abominations of the nations whom theLorddrove out before the people of Israel.
33 : 3 For he rebuilt the high placesthat his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and madeAsheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
33 : 4 And he built altars in the house of theLord, of which theLordhad said,In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
33 : 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven inthe two courts of the house of theLord.
33 : 6 And he burned his sons as an offeringin the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, andused fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt withmediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of theLord, provoking him to anger.
33 : 7 Andthe carved image of the idol that 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 forever,
33 : 8 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the landthat 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 rules given through Moses.
33 : 9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom theLorddestroyed before the people of Israel.
33 : 10 TheLordspoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention.
33 : 11 Therefore theLordbrought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks andbound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.
33 : 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of theLordhis Godand humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
33 : 13 He prayed to him, andGod was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.Then Manasseh knew that theLordwas God.
33 : 14 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west ofGihon, in the valley, and for the entrance intothe Fish Gate, and carried it aroundOphel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.
33 : 15 Andhe took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of theLord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of theLordand in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.
33 : 16 He also restored the altar of theLordand offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve theLord, the God of Israel.
33 : 17 Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to theLordtheir God.
33 : 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, andhis prayer to his God, and the words ofthe seers who spoke to him in the name of theLord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in theChronicles of the Kings of Israel.
33 : 19 And his prayer, and howGod was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the siteson which he built high places and set up theAsherim and the images, beforehe humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
33 : 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.
33 : 21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
33 : 22 And he did what was evil in the sight of theLord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the imagesthat Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
33 : 23 And he did not humble himself before theLord,as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
33 : 24 And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.
33 : 25 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.