Manasseh Reigns in Judah
1 1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
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And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD,
2according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.
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For he rebuilt the high places
3that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made
4an Asherah,
5as Ahab king of Israel had done,
6and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
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7And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said,
8"In Jerusalem will I put my name."
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And he built altars
9for all the host of heaven in
10the two courts of the house of the LORD.
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11And he burned his son as an offering and
12used fortune-telling and
13omens and dealt
14with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
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And the carved image of
15Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house,
16and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
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17And I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them."
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But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.