2 Kings 21

Manasseh {was} a son of 12 years when he reigned, and he reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother {was} Hephzibah.

And he did evil in the eyes of God, like the abominations of the nations that God had driven out from the face of the sons of Israel.

And he returned and built the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he set up altars for Baal, and he made an Asherah, just as Ahab, the king of Israel, had done. And he prostrated himself to the whole army of the heavens, and he served them. \*

And he built altars in the house of God, {about} which God had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”

And he built altars for the whole army of the heavens in the two courts of the house of God.

And he made his son pass through the fire, and he practiced divination, and he observed signs, and he made a ritual pit and familiar spirits. He multiplied doing evil in the eyes of God, making {him} angry. \*

And he put the image of Asherah that he made in the house {about} which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

And I will not add to make the foot of Israel wander from the ground that I gave to their fathers if only they will take care to act according to all that I have commanded them and to all of the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”

But they were not careful, and Manasseh misled them to do more evil than the nations that God had destroyed from the face of the sons of Israel. \*

And God spoke by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,

“Because Manasseh, the king of Judah, has done these evil abominations more than all that the Amorite did who {was} to his face, and he has also made Judah sin with his idols,

therefore, thus says God, the God of Israel, ‘Behold me, bringing disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone hearing it, the two of his ears will tingle. \*

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line of Samaria and the plumb line of the house of Ahab. And I will wipe Jerusalem away, just as one wipes a dish, he wipes {it} and turns {it} on its face.

And I will abandon the remnant of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. And they will become spoil and plunder for all of their enemies,

because they have done evil in my eyes and they have been making me angry from the day that their fathers came out from Egypt and to this day.’” \*

And Manasseh also poured out very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem mouth to mouth, besides his sin {by} which he made Judah sin by doing evil in the eyes of God.

Now the rest of the matters of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And Manasseh lay down with his fathers, and he was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son reigned in his place. \*

Amon {was} a son of 22 years when he reigned, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And the name of his mother {was} Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.

And he did evil in the eyes of God, just as Manasseh his father had done. \*

And he walked in every way that his father had walked. And he served the idols that his father had served, and he prostrated himself to them.

And he abandoned God, the God of his fathers, and he did not walk in the way of God.

And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and they killed the king in his house. \*

But the people of the land struck all having conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son reign in his place.

Now the rest of the matters of Amon that he did, are they not written in the book of the matters of the days of the kings of Judah?

And one buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And Josiah his son reigned in his place. \*