For he built up again the highplaceswhichHezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahabking of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and servedthem.
And he made his son passthrough the fire, and observedtimes, and usedenchantments, and dealtwithfamiliarspirits and wizards: he wroughtmuchwickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
And he set a gravenimage of the grovethat he had made in the house, of which the LORDsaid to David, and to Solomon his son, In thishouse, and in Jerusalem, which I havechosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Neitherwill I make the feet of Israelmove any more out of the landwhich I gavetheirfathers; only if theywillobserve to do according to all that I havecommandedthem, and according to all the law that my servantMosescommandedthem.
BecauseManassehking of Judahhathdonetheseabominations, and hathdonewickedlyabove all that the Amorites did, whichwerebefore him, and hathmadeJudahalso to sin with his idols:
And I willstretchoverJerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I willwipeJerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upsidedown.
And I willforsake the remnant of mineinheritance, and delivertheminto the hand of theirenemies; and theyshallbecome a prey and a spoil to all theirenemies;
MoreoverManassehshedinnocentbloodverymuch, till he had filledJerusalemfrom one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he madeJudah to sin, in doingthatwhich was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’sname was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.