2 Kings 21:12-26 ▼

12 this is what the LORD God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.

13 I 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 I 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 because they have done what is evil in my sight and have angered me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’ ”

16 Manasseh 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, so that they did what was evil in the LORD’s sight.

17 The 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 Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his own house, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.

19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

20 He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as his father Manasseh had done.

21 He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he bowed in worship to them.

22 He abandoned the LORD God of his ancestors and did not walk in the ways of the LORD.

23 Amon’s servants conspired against him and put the king to death in his own house.

24 The common people killed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.

25 The rest of the events of Amon’s reign, along with his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.