But did thatwhich was evil in the sight of the LORD, likeunto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
For he builtagain the highplaceswhichHezekiah his father had brokendown, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and madegroves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and servedthem.
And he caused his children to passthrough the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observedtimes, and usedenchantments, and usedwitchcraft, and dealtwith a familiarspirit, and withwizards: he wroughtmuchevil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
And he set a carvedimage, the idolwhich he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In thishouse, and in Jerusalem, which I havechosenbefore all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Neitherwill I any moreremove the foot of Israelfrom out of the landwhich I haveappointed for yourfathers; so thattheywilltakeheed to do all that I havecommandedthem, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.
So ManassehmadeJudah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worsethan the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyedbefore the children of Israel.
Wherefore the LORDbroughtuponthem the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, whichtookManassehamong the thorns, and bound him withfetters, and carried him to Babylon.
And prayedunto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusaleminto his kingdom. ThenManassehknewthat the LORD he was God.
Now afterthis he built a wallwithout the city of David, on the westside of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fishgate, and compassedaboutOphel, and raised it up a verygreatheight, and put captains of war in all the fencedcities of Judah.
And he tookaway the strangegods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altarsthat he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and castthem out of the city.
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayerunto his God, and the words of the seersthatspake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
His prayeralso, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the placeswherein he builthighplaces, and set up groves and gravenimages, before he was humbled: behold, they are writtenamong the sayings of the seers.
But he did thatwhich was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amonsacrificedunto all the carvedimageswhichManasseh his father had made, and servedthem;