Chapter 33

Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

But did that which was evil in the sight of YHVH, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom YHVH had cast out before the children of Israel.

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Also he built altars in the house of YHVH, whereof YHVH had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of YHVH.

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of YHVH, to provoke him to anger.

And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of ELOHIYM, of which ELOHIYM 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 for ever:

Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.

So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom YHVH had destroyed before the children of Israel.

And YHVH spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

Wherefore YHVH brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

And when he was in affliction, he besought YHVH his ELOHIYM, and humbled himself greatly before the ELOHIYM of his fathers,

And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that YHVH he was ELOHIYM.

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of YHVH, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of YHVH, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

And he repaired the altar of YHVH, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve YHVH ELOHIYM of Israel.

Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto YHVH their ELOHIYM only.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his ELOHIYM, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of YHVH ELOHIYM of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.

His prayer also, and how was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.

But he did that which was evil in the sight of YHVH, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

And humbled not himself before YHVH, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

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.