2 Kings - 21
1 - Manasseh - was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem - . And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel - .
3 - For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel - ; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
4 - And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, 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 made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
7 - And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David - , and to Solomon - his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem - , which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel - , will I put my name for ever:
8 - Neither will I make the feet of Israel - move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses - commanded them.
9 - But they hearkened not: and Manasseh - seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel - .
10 - And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
11 - Because Manasseh - king of Judah - hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah - also to sin with his idols:
12 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel - , Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem - and Judah - , that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
13 - And I will stretch over Jerusalem - the line of Samaria - , and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem - as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
14 - And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
15 - Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt - , even unto this day.
16 - Moreover Manasseh - shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem - from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah - to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
17 - Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh - , and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah - ?
18 - And Manasseh - slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon - his son reigned in his stead.
19 - Amon - was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem - . And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh - did.
21 - And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
22 - And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
23 - And the servants of Amon - conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 - And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon - ; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
25 - Now the rest of the acts of Amon - which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah - ?
26 - And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
