2 And he ^rdid what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^saccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had ^tdestroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and ^umade an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the ^vhost of heaven and served them. 4 And he built altars ^win the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^x“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 ^yburned his son as an offering¹ and used ^zfortune-telling and omens and dealt with ^amediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,