331 Manasseh was twelve e years old when he became king , and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem . 2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before e the sons of Israel . 3 For he rebuilt e the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down ; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim , and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 He built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord had said , "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever ." 5 For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord . 6 He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom e ; and he practiced witchcraft , used divination , practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists . He did much evil in the sight of the Lord , provoking Him to anger. 7 Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God , of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son , " In this house and in Jerusalem , which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel , I will put My name forever ; 8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers , if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law , the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses ." 9 Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before e the sons of Israel . 10 The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people , but they paid no attention .
11 Therefore the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks , bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon . 12 When he was in distress , he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before e the God of his fathers . 13 When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication , and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom . Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God . 14 Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon , in the valley , even to the entrance of the Fish Gate ; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high . Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah . 15 He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord , as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem , and he threw them outside the city . 16 He set up the altar of the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel . 17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places , although only to the Lord their God . 18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh even his prayer to his God , and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel , behold , they are among the records of the kings of Israel . 19 His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin , his unfaithfulness , and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images , before he humbled himself, behold , they are written in the records of the Hozai . 20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers , and they buried him in his own house . And Amon his son became king in his place .
21 Amon was twenty-two e years old when he became king , and he reigned two years in Jerusalem . 22 He did evil in the sight of the Lord as Manasseh his father had done , and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made , and he served them. 23 Moreover, he did not humble himself before e the Lord as his father Manasseh had done , but Amon multiplied guilt . 24 Finally his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house . 25 But the people of the land killed all the conspirators against King Amon , and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place .
