2 Chronicles 33:1–9

Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah in Judah

^1aManasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

^2aHe did evil in the sight of the Lord according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel.

³For ^ahe rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; ^bhe also erected altars for the Baals and made ¹Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

^4aHe built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord had said, “My name shall be ^bin Jerusalem forever.”

⁵For he built altars for all the host of heaven in ^athe two courts of the house of the Lord.

^6aHe made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and ^bdealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

⁷Then he put ^athe carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “^bIn this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

⁸and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land ^awhich I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses.”

⁹Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.