1Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.stylus2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:18, 2 Kings 21:1, 2 Kings 21:18, 1 Chronicles 3:132But he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all the abominations of the nations which the Lord overturned before the sons of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 28:3, 2 Chronicles 28:3, Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:9, Deuteronomy 18:143And turning away, he repaired the high places, which had been demolished by his father, Hezekiah. And he constructed altars to the Baals, and made sacred groves. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.stylusDeuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 16:21, Deuteronomy 17:3, Deuteronomy 17:3, 2 Chronicles 31:14Also, he built altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”stylus2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:29, Deuteronomy 12:11, 2 Chronicles 6:65But he built these for the entire army of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord.stylus2 Chronicles 4:9, 2 Chronicles 4:9, Ezekiel 8:7, Ezekiel 8:18, Jeremiah 32:346And he caused his sons to pass through fire in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. He observed dreams, followed divinations, served the occult arts, had with him magicians and enchanters, and worked many evils before the Lord, so that he provoked him.stylusLeviticus 19:31, 2 Chronicles 28:3, Leviticus 19:26, 2 Kings 21:6, Leviticus 18:217Also, he set up a graven image and molten statue in the house of God, about which God said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever.stylus2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:448And I will not cause the foot of Israel to be moved from the land which I delivered to their fathers. Yet this is so, only if they will take care to do what I have instructed them, by the hand of Moses, with the entire law and the ceremonies and the judgments.”stylus2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Chronicles 7:17, 2 Chronicles 7:22, Deuteronomy 27:269And so Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil, more so than all the nations which the Lord had overturned before the face of the sons of Israel.stylusProverbs 29:12, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:4, Proverbs 29:1210And the Lord spoke to him and to his people, but they were not willing to pay attention.stylus2 Chronicles 36:15, 2 Chronicles 36:16, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Jeremiah 25:411Therefore, he led over them the leaders of the army of the king of the Assyrians. And they captured Manasseh, and they led him, bound with chains and fetters, to Babylon.stylusDeuteronomy 28:36, Deuteronomy 28:36, 2 Chronicles 36:6, 2 Chronicles 36:6, Isaiah 5:2612And after this, being in great anguish, he prayed to the Lord his God. And he did penance greatly before the God of his fathers.stylusPsalms 50:15, Exodus 10:3, 2 Chronicles 32:26, Psalms 50:15, Exodus 10:313And he petitioned and begged him intently. And he heeded his prayer, and led him back to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. And Manasseh realized that the Lord himself was God.stylus1 Chronicles 5:20, Ezra 8:23, 1 Chronicles 5:20, Ezra 8:23, Matthew 6:3314After these things, he built a wall outside the City of David, to the west of Gihon, at the steep valley, from the entrance to the fish gate, circling around as far as Ophel. And he raised it up greatly. And he appointed leaders of the army in all the fortified cities of Judah.stylus2 Chronicles 27:3, Nehemiah 3:3, 1 Kings 1:33, 2 Chronicles 27:3, Nehemiah 3:315And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol from the house of the Lord, and also the altars which he had made on the mount of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem. And he cast all these things outside the city.stylus2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:3, 2 Chronicles 33:7, Ezekiel 18:2016Then he repaired the altar of the Lord, and he immolated upon it victims, and peace offerings, with praise. And he instructed Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 30:12, 2 Chronicles 33:9, Genesis 18:19, Leviticus 7:11, Leviticus 7:1817Yet still the people were immolating on the high places, to the Lord their God.stylus2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Chronicles 32:12, 2 Kings 15:4, 2 Chronicles 15:17, 1 Kings 22:4318But the rest of the deeds of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and also the words of the seers who were speaking to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are contained in the words of the kings of Israel.stylus2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, 2 Chronicles 33:1219Also, his prayer and its heeding, and all his sins and contempt, and the sites on which he built high places and made sacred groves and statues, before he repented, have been written in the words of Hozai.stylus1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:16, Daniel 5:22, Acts 9:1120Then Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. 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 had begun to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.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, just as his father Manasseh had done. And he immolated to all the idols that Manasseh had fabricated, and he served them.stylus2 Chronicles 34:3, 2 Chronicles 34:4, Isaiah 44:13, Isaiah 44:20, 2 Chronicles 33:123But he did not turn his face to the Lord, as his father Manasseh had turned himself. And he sinned much more grievously.stylus2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:19, 2 Chronicles 33:19, Jeremiah 8:1224And when his servants had conspired against him, they killed him in his own house.stylus2 Kings 21:23, 2 Kings 21:26, Romans 11:22, 2 Chronicles 24:25, 2 Chronicles 24:2625But the rest of the multitude of the people, having slain those who had struck down Amon, appointed his son, Josiah, as king in his place.stylusGenesis 9:5, Genesis 9:6, 2 Chronicles 26:1, 2 Chronicles 36:1, Numbers 35:31