2 Kings 21:3–15

³He rebuilt the high places^v his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he also erected altars to Baal^w and made an Asherah pole,^x as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the starry hosts^y and worshiped them. ⁴He built altars^z in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my Name.”^{a 5}In the two courts^b of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. ⁶He sacrificed his own son^c in the fire, practiced divination,^d sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists.^e He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing^f his anger.

⁷He took the carved Asherah pole^g he had made and put it in the temple,^h of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Nameⁱ forever. ⁸I will not again^j make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses^k gave them.” ⁹But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil^l than the nations^m the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

¹⁰The Lord said through his servants the prophets: ¹¹“Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evilⁿ than the Amorites^o who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.^{p 12}Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster^q on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.^{r 13}I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line^s used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe^t out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴I will forsake^u the remnant^v of my inheritance and give them into the hands of enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their enemies; ¹⁵they have done evil^w in my eyes and have aroused^x my anger from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.”