¶ Manasseh was twelve¹ years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.

And he did³ that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations⁴ of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

For he built up again the high places⁵ which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared⁶ up altars for Baal, and made a grove⁷, as did Ahab⁸ king of Israel; and worshipped⁹ all the host of heaven, and served them.

And he built¹⁰ altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem¹¹ will I put my name.

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts¹² of the house of the LORD.

And he made¹³ his son pass through the fire, and observed times¹⁴, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar¹⁵ spirits and wizards: he wrought¹⁶ much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

And he set¹⁷ 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 house¹⁸, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Neither will I make¹⁹ the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they²⁰ will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

But they hearkened²¹ not: and Manasseh seduced²² them to do more evil²³ than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

¶²⁴And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,

Because²⁵ Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all²⁶ that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah²⁷ also to sin with his idols:

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing²⁸ such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever²⁹ heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

And I will stretch³⁰ over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet³¹ of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe³² Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down³³.

And I will³⁴ forsake the remnant³⁵ of mine inheritance, and deliver³⁶ them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day³⁷ their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

Moreover Manasseh³⁸ shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another³⁹; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.

Now the rest⁴⁰ 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?

And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried⁴¹ in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

¶ Amon⁴² was twenty and two years⁴³ 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.

¶ And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father⁴⁴ Manasseh did.

And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

⁴⁵And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.

⁴⁶And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.

And the people of the land slew⁴⁷ all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah⁴⁸ his son king in his stead.

⁴⁹Now 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?

And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden⁵⁰ of Uzza: and Josiah⁵¹ his son reigned in his stead.