2 Kings 21:10–16

¹⁰The Lord said through his servants the prophets, ¹¹“Since King Manasseh of Judah has committed all these detestable acts^s—worse evil than the Amorites^t who preceded him had done—and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin, ¹²this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.^{Bu 13}I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab,^v and I will wipe^w Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴I will abandon the remnant^x of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, ¹⁵because they have done what is evil in my sight and have angered me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’ ”^y

¹⁶Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another.^z This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.