2 Chronicles 33:11–19

¹¹So 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. ¹⁷However, the people still sacrificed at the high places,^l but only to the Lord their God.

MANASSEH’S DEATH

¹⁸The rest of the events^m of Manasseh’s reign, along with his prayerⁿ to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are written in the Events of Israel’s Kings. ¹⁹His prayer and how God was receptive to his prayer, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Events of Hozai.