2 Chronicles 33:10–16

MANASSEH’S REPENTANCE

¹⁰The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.^{c 11}So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.^{d 12}When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the Lord his God and earnestly humbled himself^e before the God of his ancestors. ¹³He prayed to him, and the Lord was receptive to his prayer. He granted his request^f and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the Lord is God.^g

¹⁴After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon^h in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate;ⁱ he brought it around Ophel,^j and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁵He removed the foreign gods and the idol^k from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. ¹⁶He built^B the altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thanksgiving sacrifices on it. Then he told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.