2 Kings 21:3–15

³For he rebuilt the ¹high places ^cwhich Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a ²wooden image, ^das Ahab king of Israel had done; and he ^eworshiped all ³the host of heaven and served them. ^4fHe also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^g“In Jerusalem I will put My name.” ⁵And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the ^htwo courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ⁱAlso he made his son pass through the fire, practiced ^jsoothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷He even set a carved image of ⁴Asherah that he had made, in the ⁵house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, ^k“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; ^8land I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers—only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.” ⁹But they paid no attention, and Manasseh ^mseduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

¹⁰And the Lord spoke ⁿby His servants the prophets, saying, ^11o“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (^phe has acted more wickedly than all the ^qAmorites who were before him, and ^rhas also made Judah sin with his idols), ¹²therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both ^shis ears will tingle. ¹³And I will stretch over Jerusalem ^tthe measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; ^uI will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴So I will forsake the ^vremnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, ¹⁵because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”