Manasseh Reigns in Judah

1 ^tManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2 And he ^udid what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^vaccording to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had ^wbroken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and ^xmade Asheroth, and worshiped all the ^yhost of heaven and served them. 4 And he built altars ^zin the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^a“In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 And he ^bburned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used ^cfortune-telling and omens and ^dsorcery, and dealt with ^emediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, ^fof which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever, 8 ^gand I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the rules given through Moses.” 9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

4 And I will make them a ^lhorror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of ^mwhat Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

10 and Hezekiah the father of Manasseh, and Manasseh the father of Amos,¹ and Amos the father of Josiah,