Manasseh’s Reign over Judah
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother was Hephzibah.
2He did evil in the sight of the
3He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole just like King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
4He built altars in the
5In the two courtyards of the
6He passed his son through the fire and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the
7He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the
8I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”
9But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the
10So the
11“King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.
12So this is what the
13I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides.
14I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,
15because they have done evil in my sight and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”
16Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the
17The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign and all his accomplishments, as well as the sinful acts he committed, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
18Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzzah, and his son Amon replaced him as king.
Amon’s Reign over Judah
19Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. His mother was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, from Jotbah.
20He did evil in the sight of the
21He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.
22He abandoned the
23Amon’s servants conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
24The people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
25The rest of Amon’s accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.
26He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and his son Josiah replaced him as king.
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