1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.stylusIsaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:4, 2 Chronicles 32:33, 2 Chronicles 33:9, 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.stylusEzekiel 16:51, 2 Kings 21:7, Jeremiah 15:4, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Chronicles 33:43For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.stylus2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 18:4, Deuteronomy 17:34Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”stylus2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 8:29, 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 8:29, Jeremiah 32:345In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.stylus1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 6:36, 2 Kings 23:12, 2 Kings 23:46He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.stylus2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 17:17, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 19:31, Leviticus 18:217Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD 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 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:29, 1 Kings 9:3, 2 Samuel 7:138I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”stylus2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Kings 18:11, 2 Kings 18:12, 2 Chronicles 33:89But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.stylusProverbs 29:12, Proverbs 29:12, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Luke 13:3410And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,stylus2 Chronicles 33:10, Nehemiah 9:26, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Matthew 23:34, Matthew 23:3711“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,stylus2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:4, 1 Kings 21:26, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:412this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.stylusJeremiah 19:3, Jeremiah 19:3, 1 Samuel 3:11, 1 Samuel 3:11, Amos 3:213I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.stylusAmos 7:7, Amos 7:8, Amos 7:7, Amos 7:8, Lamentations 2:814So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,stylusJeremiah 23:33, Jeremiah 23:33, 2 Kings 19:4, Psalms 89:38, Psalms 89:4515because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”stylusEzekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 16:15, Ezekiel 16:22, Deuteronomy 9:2116Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.stylus2 Chronicles 33:9, Numbers 35:33, 2 Kings 21:11, 2 Chronicles 33:9, Numbers 35:3317As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?stylus2 Kings 20:20, 2 Kings 20:21, 2 Chronicles 33:1, 2 Chronicles 33:20, 2 Kings 20:2018And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.stylus2 Chronicles 33:20, 2 Chronicles 33:20, 2 Kings 21:26, 2 Kings 21:26, 2 Chronicles 24:2519Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.stylus2 Chronicles 33:21, 2 Chronicles 33:23, 2 Chronicles 33:21, 2 Chronicles 33:23, 2 Kings 15:2320And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.stylus2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 21:7, Matthew 23:32, 2 Kings 21:11, 2 Chronicles 33:2221He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.stylus22He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.stylus1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 22:17, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 22:17, 1 Chronicles 28:923Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.stylus2 Kings 12:20, 2 Kings 12:20, 2 Chronicles 33:24, 2 Chronicles 33:25, 2 Kings 14:1924But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.stylus2 Kings 14:5, 2 Kings 14:5, 2 Chronicles 22:1, 2 Samuel 5:3, 2 Kings 14:2125As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?stylus2 Kings 21:17, 2 Kings 20:20, 2 Kings 21:17, 2 Kings 20:2026And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.stylus2 Kings 21:18, 2 Kings 21:18, Matthew 1:10, Matthew 1:10, 1 Kings 13:5