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. ^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. ¹⁷However, the people still sacrificed at the high places, ^jbut only to Yahweh their God.

Manasseh’s Death

¹⁸The rest of the events ^kof Manasseh’s reign, along with his prayer ^lto his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, are written in the Records of Israel’s Kings. ¹⁹His prayer and how God granted his request, 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 Records of Hozai.