2 Chronicles 33:10–16

Manasseh’s Repentance

¹⁰The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen. ^z11So 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. ^a12When he was in distress, he sought the favor of Yahweh his God and earnestly humbled himself ^bbefore the God of his ancestors. ¹³He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request, ^cand brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that Yahweh is God. ^d

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

¹⁵He removed the foreign gods and the idol ^hfrom 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 ⁱthe altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thank offerings on it. Then he told Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.