2 Chronicles 33

¹Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

²And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:

³And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.

⁴He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

⁵And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

⁶And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

⁷He set also a graven, and a molten statue 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 out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever.

⁸And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed out of the land which I have delivered to their fathers: yet so if they will take heed to do what I hare commanded them, and all the law, and the ceremonies, and judgments by the hand of Moses.

⁹So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

¹⁰And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they would not hearken.