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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And the 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, |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that 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.” |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Therefore the LORD brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it around Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He also restored the altar of the LORD and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the LORD their God. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place. |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But 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. |
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