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Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
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And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:
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And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.
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He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
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And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
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He set also a graven, and a molten statue in the house of God, of which God had 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, will I put my name for ever.