II Kings Chapter 21

II Kings Chapter 21
1 Manasseh was twelve year old when
he began to reign, and reigned fifty and
five year in Jerusalem: his mother's
name also was Hephzi-bah. 2 And he
did evil in the sight of the Lord after the
abomination of the heathen, whom 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
destroyed: and he erected up altars for
Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab
king of Israel, and worshiped all the host
of heaven and served them. 4 Also he
built altars in the house of the Lord, of
the which the Lord said, In Jerusalem
will I put my name.
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, and gave himself to witchcraft
and sorcery, and he used them that had
familiar spirits and were soothsayers,
and did much evil in the sight of the Lord
to anger him. 7 And he set the image of
the grove, that he had made, in the house,
whereof the Lord 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 forever.
8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel,
move anymore out of the land, which I
gave their fathers: so that they will
observe and do all that I have
commanded them, and according to all
the law that my servant Moses
commanded them. 9 Yet they obeyed not,
but Manasseh led them out of the way, to
do more wickedly than did the heathen
people, whom the Lord destroyed before
the children of Israel.
10 Therefore the Lord spake by his
servants the prophets, saying, 11
Because that Manasseh king of Judah
hath done such abominations, and hath
wrought more wickedly than all that the
Amorites (which were before him) did,
and hath made Judah sin also with his
idols,
12 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of
Israel, Behold, I will bring an evil upon
Jerusalem and Judah, that whoso 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, which he wipeth, and
turneth 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
be robbed and spoiled of all their
adversaries,
15 Because they have done evil in my
sight, and have provoked me to anger,
since the time their fathers came out of
Egypt until this day.
16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent
blood exceeding much, till he
replenished Jerusalem from corner to
corner, beside his sin wherewith he
made Judah to sin, and to do evil in the
sight of the Lord.
17 Concerning 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, even in the garden of Uzza: and
Amon his son reigned in his stead.
19 Amon was two and twenty year old,
when he began to reign, and he reigned
two year in Jerusalem: his mother's
name also was Meshullemeth the
daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 And he did evil in the sight of the
Lord, as his father Manasseh did. 21 For
he walked in all the way that his father
walked in, and served the idols that his
father served, and worshiped 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 made Josiah his
son king in his stead.
25 Concerning 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 they buried him in his sepulchre
in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son
reigned in his stead.