1 ¶ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

2 And he did what 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 again built up the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made a grove, like Ahab the king of Israel had done; and worshipped all the starry host of heaven, and served them.

4 And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, I will put my name in Jerusalem.

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

6 And he burned his son as an offering, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he did much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he placed a graven image of Asherah 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 forever:

8 Nor will I make the feet of Israel wander any more from the land that I gave to their fathers; if only they carefully do as I commanded them, according to all the law that my servant Moses gave them.

9 But they did not listen: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations that the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 ¶ And the LORD spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,

11 Because Manasseh the king of Judah has committed these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols:

12 Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that both the ears of whoever hears of it will 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 wipes a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.

14 And I will cast off the remainder of my heritage, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they will become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

15 Because they have done what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.

16 Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, filling Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah to sin, by doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the records 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-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

20 And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.

21 And he lived in every way like his father, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.

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

24 And the people of the land executed all who 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 records of the kings of Judah?

26 And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.