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1 Man­asseh was twelve years old when he be­gan to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hep­hz­ibah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, af­ter the abom­i­na­tions of the hea­then, whom the LORD cast out be­fore the chil­dren of Is­rael. 3 For he built up again the high places which Hezeki­ah his fa­ther had de­stroyed; and he reared up al­tars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Is­rael; and wor­shipped all the host of heav­en, and served them. 4 And he built al­tars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built al­tars for all the host of heav­en in the two courts of the house of the LORD. 6 And he made his son pass through the fire, and ob­served times, and used en­chant­ments, and dealt with fa­mil­iar spir­its and wiz­ards: he wrought much wicked­ness in the sight of the LORD, to pro­voke him to anger. 7 And he set a graven im­age of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have cho­sen out of all tribes of Is­rael, will I put my name for ev­er: 8 Nei­ther will I make the feet of Is­rael move any more out of the land which I gave their fa­thers; only if they will ob­serve to do ac­cord­ing to all that I have com­mand­ed them, and ac­cord­ing to all the law that my ser­vant Moses com­mand­ed them. 9 But they hear­kened not: and Man­asseh se­duced them to do more evil than did the na­tions whom the LORD de­stroyed be­fore the chil­dren of Is­rael. 10 And the LORD spake by his ser­vants the prophets, say­ing, 11 Be­cause Man­asseh king of Ju­dah hath done these abom­i­na­tions, and hath done wicked­ly above all that the Amor­ites did, which were be­fore him, and hath made Ju­dah also to sin with his idols: 12 There­fore thus saith the LORD God of Is­rael, Be­hold, I am bring­ing such evil upon Jerusalem and Ju­dah, that whoso­ev­er heareth of it, both his ears shall tin­gle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plum­met of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wip­ing it, and turn­ing it up­side down. 14 And I will for­sake the rem­nant of mine in­her­i­tance, and de­liv­er them into the hand of their en­e­mies; and they shall be­come a prey and a spoil to all their en­e­mies; 15 Be­cause they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have pro­voked me to anger, since the day their fa­thers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day. 16 More­over Man­asseh shed in­no­cent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to an­oth­er; be­side his sin where­with he made Ju­dah to sin, in do­ing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD. 17 Now the rest of the acts of Man­asseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not writ­ten in the book of the chron­i­cles of the kings of Ju­dah? 18 And Man­asseh slept with his fa­thers, and was buried in the gar­den of his own house, in the gar­den of Uz­za: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. 19 Amon was twen­ty and two years old when he be­gan to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daugh­ter of Haruz of Jot­bah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his fa­ther Man­asseh did. 21 And he walked in all the way that his fa­ther walked in, and served the idols that his fa­ther served, and wor­shipped them: 22 And he for­sook the LORD God of his fa­thers, and walked not in the way of the LORD. 23 And the ser­vants of Amon con­spired against him, and slew the king in his own house. 24 And the peo­ple of the land slew all them that had con­spired against king Amon; and the peo­ple of the land made Josi­ah his son king in his stead. 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not writ­ten in the book of the chron­i­cles of the kings of Ju­dah? 26 And he was buried in his sepul­chre in the gar­den of Uz­za: and Josi­ah his son reigned in his stead.