II Chronicles Chapter 33

II Chronicles Chapter 33
1 Manasseh was twelve year old, when
he began to reign, and he reigned five
and fifty year in Jerusalem:
2 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, like the abominations of the
heathen, who the Lord had cast out
before the children of Israel.
3 For he went back and built the high
places, which Hezekiah his father had
broken down: and he set up altars for
Baalim, and made groves, and
worshiped all the host of the heaven, and
served them.
4 Also he built altars in the house of the
Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In
Jerusalem shall my name be forever.
5 And he built altars for all the host of
the heaven in the two courts of the house
of the Lord.
6 And he caused his sons to pass through
the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom: he
gave himself to witchcraft and to
charming and to sorcery, and he used
them that had familiar spirits, and
soothsayers: he did very much evil in the
sight of the Lord to anger him.
7 He put also the carved image, which
he had made, in the house of God:
whereof God had said to David and to
Solomon his son, In this house and in
Jerusalem, which I have chosen before
all the tribes of Israel, will I put my
name forever,
8 Neither will I make the foot of Israel
to remove anymore out of the land which
I have appointed for your fathers, so that
they take heed, and do all that I have
commanded them, according to the law
and statutes and judgments by the hand of
Moses.
9 So Manasseh made Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do
worse than the heathen, whom the Lord
had destroyed before the children of
Israel.
10 And the Lord spake to Manasseh and
to his people, but they would not regard.
11 Wherefore the Lord brought upon
them the captains of the host of the king
of Asshur [Assyria], which took
Manasseh and put him in fetters, and
bound him in chains, and carried him to
Babylon.
12 And when he was in tribulation, he
prayed to the Lord his God, and humbled
himself greatly before the God of his
fathers,
13 And prayed unto him: and God was
entreated of him, and heard his prayer,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into
his kingdom: then Manasseh knew that
the Lord was God.
14 Now after this he built a wall without
the city of David, on the Westside of
Gihon in the valley, even at the entry of
the fish gate, and compassed about
Ophel, and raised it very high, and put
captains of war in all the strong cities of
Judah.
15 And he took away the strange gods
and the image out of the house of the
Lord, and all the altars that he had built
in the mount of the house of the Lord,
and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of
the city.
16 Also he prepared the altar of the
Lord, and sacrificed thereon peace
offerings, and of thanks, and commanded
Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
17 Nevertheless the people did sacrifice
still in the high places, but unto the Lord
their God.
18 Concerning the rest of the acts of
Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God,
and the words of the seers, that spake to
him in the name of the Lord God of
Israel, behold, they are written in the
book of the kings of Israel. 19 And his
prayer and how God was entreated of
him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and
the places wherein he built high places,
and set groves and images (before he
was humbled) behold, they are written in
the book of the seers.
20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers,
and they buried him in his own house:
and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
21 Amon was two and twenty year old,
when he began to reign, and reigned two
year in Jerusalem.
22 But he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, as did Manasseh his father: for
Amon sacrificed to all the images, which
Manasseh his father had made, and
served them,
23 And he humbled not himself before
the Lord, as Manasseh his father had
humbled himself: but this Amon
trespassed more and more.
24 And his servants conspired against
him, and slew him in his own house. 25
But 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.