1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem : and his mother’s name was Hephzibah . 2And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah , after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel . 3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal , and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel , and worshipped all the host of heaven , and served them . 4And he built altars in the house of Jehovah , whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name . 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah . 6And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments , and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards : he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah , to provoke him to anger . 7And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made , in the house of which Jehovah 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 , will I put my name for ever ; 8neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of 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 . 9But they hearkened not : and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel .
The Consequences of Manasseh's Reign
10And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets , saying , 11Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations , and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did , that were before him , and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols ; 12therefore thus saith Jehovah , the God of Israel , Behold , I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah , that whosoever heareth of it , both his ears shall tingle . 13And 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 . 14And I will cast off 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 ; 15because they have done that which is evil in my sight , and have provoked me to anger , since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt , even unto this day . 16Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much , till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another ; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin , in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah .
The End of Manasseh's Reign and Legacy
17Now 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 ? 18And 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 . 19Amon 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 . 20And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah , as did Manasseh his father. 21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in , and served the idols that his father served , and worshipped them : 22and he forsook Jehovah , the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Jehovah . 23And the servants of Amon conspired against him , and put the king to death in his own house . 24But 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 . 25Now 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 ? 26And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza : and Josiah his son reigned in his stead .