| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Manasseh was 12 years old when he became king and reigned 55 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He did what was evil in the LORD's sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had dispossessed before the Israelites. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and reestablished the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done; he also worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He built altars in the LORD's temple, where the LORD had said, "Jerusalem is where I will put My name." |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the LORD's temple. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He made his son pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great amount of evil in the LORD's sight, provoking Him. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the LORD had spoken about to David and his son Solomon, "I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them--the whole law that My servant Moses commanded them." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But they did not listen; Manasseh caused them to stray so that they did greater evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, " |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these detestable things--greater evil than the Amorites who preceded him had done--and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12this is what the LORD God of Israel says: 'I am about to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason's level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl--wiping it and turning it upside down. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.'" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit. Consequently, they did what was evil in the LORD's sight. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The rest of the events of Manasseh's reign, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Amon was 22 years old when he became king and reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He did what was evil in the LORD's sight as his father Manasseh had done. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he worshiped them. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22He abandoned the LORD God of his ancestors and did not walk in the way of the LORD. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Amon's servants conspired against the king and killed him in his own house. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then the common people executed all those who had conspired against King Amon and made his son Josiah king in his place. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The rest of the events of Amon's reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah's Kings. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place. |
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