2 Chronicles 33:12-25 ▼

12 And when he was in distress, he entreated Yahweh his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

13 Then he prayed to Him, and He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and returned him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

14 Afterwards, he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of Yahweh, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

16 And he set up the altar of Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he said for Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to Yahweh their God.

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

19 His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the Hozai.

20 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son became king in his place.

21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

22 And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

23 Moreover, he did not humble himself before Yahweh as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but Amon multiplied guilt.

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

25 Then 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.