1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years.stylus2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:18, 2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:18, 1 Chronicles 3:132And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.stylus2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 28:3, Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:143For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.stylusDeuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 17:3, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Chronicles 31:14Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”stylus2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:29, Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Chronicles 6:65In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.stylus2 Chronicles 4:9, 2 Chronicles 4:9, Ezekiel 8:7, Ezekiel 8:18, Jeremiah 32:346He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.stylusLeviticus 19:31, 2 Chronicles 28:3, Leviticus 19:26, 2 Kings 21:6, Leviticus 18:217Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.stylus2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:448I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to leave the land that I assigned to your fathers, if only they are careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the laws, statutes, and judgments.”stylus2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Chronicles 7:17, 2 Chronicles 7:22, Deuteronomy 27:269So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.stylusProverbs 29:12, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:4, Proverbs 29:1210And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.stylus2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Jeremiah 25:411So the LORD brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.stylusDeuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:36, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:6, Isaiah 5:2612And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.stylusPsalms 50:15, Exodus 10:3, 2 Chronicles 32:26, Psalms 50:15, Exodus 10:313And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition; so He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.stylus1 Chronicles 5:20, Ezra 8:23, 1 Chronicles 5:20, Ezra 8:23, Matthew 6:3314After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.stylus2 Chronicles 27:3, Nehemiah 3:3, 1 Kings 1:33, 2 Chronicles 27:3, Nehemiah 3:315He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.stylus2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Chronicles 33:7, Ezekiel 18:2016Then he restored the altar of the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and he told Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 30:12, 2 Chronicles 33:9, Genesis 18:19, Leviticus 7:11, Leviticus 7:1817Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at 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 22:4318As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with his prayer to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, they are indeed written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, 2 Chronicles 33:1219His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.stylus1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:16, Daniel 5:22, Acts 9:1120And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried at his palace. And his son Amon reigned 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 reigned in Jerusalem two years.stylus2 Kings 21:19, 2 Kings 21:24, 2 Chronicles 33:1, James 4:13, James 4:1522And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,stylus2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:4, Isaiah 44:13, Isaiah 44:20, 2 Chronicles 33:123but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.stylus2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:19, Jeremiah 8:1224Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed him in his palace.stylus2 Kings 21:23, 2 Kings 21:26, Romans 11:22, 2 Chronicles 24:25, 2 Chronicles 24:2625But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they 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