33MANASSEH WAS twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.H4519H8147H6240H8141H1121H4427H4427H2572H2568H8141H3389 2But he did evil in the Lord's sight, like the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.H6213H7451H5869H3068H8441H1471H3068H3423H6440H1121H3478 3For he built again the [idolatrous] high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared altars for the Baals and made the Asherim and worshiped all the hosts of the heavens and served them.H1129H7725H1116H3169H1H5422H6965H4196H1168H6213H842H7812H6635H8064H5647 4Also he built [heathen] altars in the Lord's house, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall My Name be forever.H1129H4196H1004H3068H3068H559H3389H8034H5769 5He built altars for all the hosts of the heavens in the two courts of the Lord's house.H1129H4196H6635H8064H8147H2691H1004H3068 6And he burned his children as an offering [to his god] in the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom], and practiced soothsaying, augury, and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.H5674H1121H5674H784H1516H1121H2011H6049H5172H3784H6213H178H3049H6213H7235H7451H5869H3068H3707 7And he set a carved image, 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 before all the tribes of Israel, will I put My Name [and Presence] forever;H7760H6459H5566H6213H1004H430H430H559H1732H8010H1121H1004H3389H977H7626H3478H7760H8034H5865 8And I will no more remove Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if they will only take heed to do all that I have commanded them, the whole law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses.H3254H5493H7272H3478H5921H127H5975H1H518H8104H6213H6680H8451H2706H4941H3027H4872 9So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the heathen whom the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.H4519H8582H3063H3427H3389H8582H6213H7451H1471H3068H8045H6440H1121H3478 10The Lord spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not hearken.H3068H1696H4519H5971H7181 11So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and in fetters and brought him to Babylon.H3068H935H8269H6635H4428H804H3920H4519H2336H631H5178H3212H894 12When he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.H6887H2470H3068H430H3665H3966H6440H430H1 13He prayed to Him, and God, entreated by him, heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.H6419H6279H8085H8467H7725H3389H4438H4519H3045H3068H430 14And he built an outer wall to the City of David west of Gihon in the valley, to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and ran it around Ophel, raising it to a very great height; and he put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.H310H1129H2346H2435H5892H1732H4628H1521H5158H935H1709H8179H5437H6077H1361H3966H7760H8269H2428H1219H5892H3063 15And he took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the house of the Lord and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city.H5493H5236H430H5566H1004H3068H4196H1129H2022H1004H3068H3389H7993H2351H5892 16And he restored the Lord's altar and sacrificed on it offerings of peace and of thanksgiving; and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.H1129H4196H3068H2076H8002H2077H8426H559H3063H5647H3068H430H3478 17Yet the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.H61H5971H2076H1116H3068H430 18Now 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 in the Book of the Kings of Israel.H3499H1697H4519H8605H430H1697H2374H1696H8034H3068H430H3478H1697H4428H3478 19His prayer and how God heard him, and all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and graven images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.H8605H6279H2403H4604H4725H1129H1116H5975H842H6456H6440H3665H3789H1697H2374H2335 20So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house [garden]. And Amon his son reigned in his stead.H4519H7901H1H6912H1004H526H1121H4427 21Amon was twenty-two years old when he began his two-year reign in Jerusalem.H526H8147H6242H8141H1121H4427H4427H8147H8141H3389 22But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as did Manasseh his father; for Amon sacrificed to all the images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them,H6213H7451H5869H3068H6213H4519H1H526H2076H6456H4519H1H6213H5647 23And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father [finally] did; but Amon trespassed {and} became more and more guilty.H3665H6440H3068H4519H1H3665H526H819H7235 24And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.H5650H7194H4191H1004 25But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his stead.H5971H776H5221H7194H4428H526H5971H776H4427H2977H1121H4427
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