7
Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God's temple,[a] about which God had said to David and his son Solomon: "I will establish My name forever[b] in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.[c]
5
He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards of the Lord's temple.
6
He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did a great deal of evil in the Lord's sight, provoking Him.
7
Manasseh set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God's temple, about which God had said to David and his son Solomon: "I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
8
I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from upon the land where I stationed your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses-all the law, statutes, and judgments."
9
So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.