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

2 But did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

3 For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he raised up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 He also built heathen altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, My name will be In Jerusalem forever.

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

6 And he burned his children with fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: he also observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he did much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which 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 Nor will I again remove the feet of Israel from the land that I appointed for your fathers; if 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.

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

10 And the LORD spoke to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not listen.

11 ¶ Therefore the LORD brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks, and bound him in chains, and took him to Babylon.

12 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

13 And prayed to him: and he heard his petition, and granted his request, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.

14 Now after this he built a wall outside the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, to the entrance of the fish gate, and ran it around Ophel, and raised it up a to very great height, and put commanders of the army in all the walled cities of Judah.

15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and threw them out of the city.

16 And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed on it peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, yet to the LORD their God only.

18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are written in the book of the kings of Israel.

19 His prayer, and how God heard him, and all his sins, and his unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are recorded among the sayings 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 twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and reigned for two years in Jerusalem.

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

23 And did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

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

25 But 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.