Chapter 33
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign , and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem .
2 He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , after the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel .
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down ; and he raised up altars for the Baals , made Asheroth, and worshipped all the army of the sky , and served them .
4 He built altars in the LORD ’s house , of which the LORD said, " My name shall be in Jerusalem forever ."
5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the LORD ’s house .
6 He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom . He practised sorcery , divination , and witchcraft , and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards . He did much evil in the LORD ’s sight , to provoke him to anger .
7 He set the engraved image of the idol , which he had made , in God’s house , of which God said to David and to Solomon his son , " In this house , and in Jerusalem , which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel , I will put my name forever .
8 I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them , even all the law , the statutes , and the ordinances given by Moses ."
9 Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem , so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel .
10 The LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people , but they didn’t listen .
11 Therefore the LORD brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains , bound him with fetters , and carried him to Babylon.
12 When he was in distress , he begged the LORD his God , and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13 He prayed to him ; and he was entreated by him , and heard his supplication , and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom . Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God .
14 Now after this , he built an outer wall to David ’s city on the west side of Gihon , in the valley , even to the entrance at the fish gate . He encircled Ophel with it , and raised it up to a very great height ; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah .
15 He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the LORD ’s house , and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the LORD ’s house and in Jerusalem , and cast them out of the city .
16 He built up the LORD ’s altar , and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it , and commanded Judah to serve the LORD , the God of Israel .
17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places , but only to the LORD their God .
18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh , and his prayer to his God , and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD , the God of Israel , behold , they are written amongst the acts of the kings of Israel .
19 His prayer also , and how God listened to his request , and all his sin and his trespass , and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself : behold , they are written in the history of Hozai .
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house ; and Amon his son reigned in his place .
21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign ; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem .
22 He did that which was evil in the LORD ’s sight , as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made , and served them .
23 He didn’t humble himself before the LORD , as Manasseh his father had humbled himself ; but this same Amon trespassed more and more .
24 His servants conspired against him , and put him to death in his own house .
25 But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place .