2 Kings 21:1-5 ▼

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, in accordance with the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

3 For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he worshiped all the heavenly lights and served them.

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

5 He built altars for all the heavenly lights in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD.