1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.stylus2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:18, 2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:18, 1 Chronicles 3:132He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 28:3, Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:143For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;stylusDeuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 17:3, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Chronicles 31:14And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.stylus2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:29, Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Chronicles 6:65And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.stylus2 Chronicles 4:9, 2 Chronicles 4:9, Ezekiel 8:7, Ezekiel 8:18, Jeremiah 32:346More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.stylusLeviticus 19:31, 2 Chronicles 28:3, Leviticus 19:26, 2 Kings 21:6, Leviticus 18:217And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:stylus2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:448And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.stylus2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Chronicles 7:17, 2 Chronicles 7:22, Deuteronomy 27:269And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.stylusProverbs 29:12, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:4, Proverbs 29:1210And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.stylus2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Jeremiah 25:411So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.stylusDeuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:36, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:6, Isaiah 5:2612And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,stylusPsalms 50:15, Exodus 10:3, 2 Chronicles 32:26, Psalms 50:15, Exodus 10:313And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.stylus1 Chronicles 5:20, Ezra 8:23, 1 Chronicles 5:20, Ezra 8:23, Matthew 6:3314After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.stylus2 Chronicles 27:3, Nehemiah 3:3, 1 Kings 1:33, 2 Chronicles 27:3, Nehemiah 3:315He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.stylus2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Chronicles 33:7, Ezekiel 18:2016And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 30:12, 2 Chronicles 33:9, Genesis 18:19, Leviticus 7:11, Leviticus 7:1817However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.stylus2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Chronicles 15:17, 1 Kings 22:4318Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, 2 Chronicles 33:1219And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.stylus1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:16, Daniel 5:22, Acts 9:1120So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.stylusMatthew 1:10, 1 Chronicles 3:14, 2 Chronicles 32:33, 2 Kings 21:18, 2 Kings 21:2521Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.stylus2 Kings 21:19, 2 Kings 21:24, 2 Chronicles 33:1, James 4:13, James 4:1522He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.stylus2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:4, Isaiah 44:13, Isaiah 44:20, 2 Chronicles 33:123He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.stylus2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:19, Jeremiah 8:1224And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.stylus2 Kings 21:23, 2 Kings 21:26, Romans 11:22, 2 Chronicles 24:25, 2 Chronicles 24:2625But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.stylusGenesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, 2 Chronicles 26:1, 2 Chronicles 36:1, Numbers 35:31