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2 Chronicles Chapter 33

¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

²He did what was evil in the sight of ForeverOne, after the abominations of the nations whom ForeverOne threw out before the children of Israel.

³For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

⁴He built altars in the house of ForeverOne, of which ForeverOne said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever." ⁵He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of ForeverOne.

⁶He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of ForeverOne, to provoke him to anger.

⁷He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, 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, will I put my name forever: ⁸neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses." ⁹Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom ForeverOne destroyed before the children of Israel did.

¹⁰ForeverOne spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.

¹¹Therefore ForeverOne brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

¹²When he was in distress, he begged ForeverOne his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

¹³He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that ForeverOne was God.

¹⁴Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel [with it], and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁵He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of ForeverOne, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of ForeverOne, and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city.

¹⁶He built up the altar of ForeverOne, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve ForeverOne, the God of Israel.

¹⁷Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to ForeverOne their God.

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of ForeverOne, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.

¹⁹His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

²⁰So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.

²¹Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

²²He did what was evil in the sight of ForeverOne, as Manasseh his father had; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

²³He didn't humble himself before ForeverOne, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

²⁴His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.

²⁵But 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.