1Manasseh was twelve years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother 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, in accord with the idols of the nations that the Lord destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.stylusEzekiel 16:51, 2 Kings 21:7, Jeremiah 15:4, 2 Chronicles 33:2, 2 Chronicles 33:43And he turned away. And he built up the high places that his father, Hezekiah, had destroyed. And he erected altars to Baal, and he made sacred groves, just as Ahab, the king of Israel, had done. And he adored the entire army of heaven, and he served them.stylus2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 18:4, 2 Kings 17:16, 2 Kings 18:4, Deuteronomy 17:34And he constructed altars in the house of the Lord, about which the Lord said: “In Jerusalem, I will place my name.”stylus2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 8:29, 2 Samuel 7:13, 1 Kings 8:29, Jeremiah 32:345And he constructed altars, for the entire army of heaven, within the two courts of the temple of the Lord.stylus1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 7:12, 1 Kings 6:36, 2 Kings 23:12, 2 Kings 23:46And he led his son through fire. And he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed soothsayers, and multiplied diviners, so that he did evil before the Lord, and provoked him.stylus2 Kings 17:17, 2 Kings 17:17, Leviticus 18:21, Leviticus 19:31, Leviticus 18:217Also, he set up an idol, of the sacred grove that he had made, in the temple of the Lord, about which the Lord said to David, and to his son Solomon: “In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever.stylus2 Chronicles 7:16, 2 Chronicles 7:16, 1 Kings 8:29, 1 Kings 9:3, 2 Samuel 7:138And I will no longer cause the feet of Israel to be moved from the land that I gave to their fathers: if only they will take care to do all that I have instructed them, and the entire law that my servant Moses commanded to them.”stylus2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Samuel 7:10, 2 Kings 18:11, 2 Kings 18:12, 2 Chronicles 33:89Yet truly, they did not listen. Instead, they were seduced by Manasseh, so that they did evil, more so than the nations that the Lord crushed before the face of the sons of Israel.stylusProverbs 29:12, Proverbs 29:12, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Luke 13:3410And so the Lord spoke, by the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:stylus2 Chronicles 33:10, Nehemiah 9:26, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Matthew 23:34, Matthew 23:3711“Since Manasseh, the king of Judah, has committed these wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorites before him have done, and also has caused Judah to sin by his defilements,stylus2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:4, 1 Kings 21:26, 2 Kings 24:3, 2 Kings 24:412because of this, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will lead evils over Jerusalem and over Judah, such that, whoever will hear of these things, both his ears will ring.stylusJeremiah 19:3, Jeremiah 19:3, 1 Samuel 3:11, 1 Samuel 3:11, Amos 3:213And I will extend the measuring line of Samaria over Jerusalem, with the scale of the house of Ahab. And I will erase Jerusalem, just as writing tablets are usually erased. And after erasing, I will turn it and repeatedly drag a stylus over its surface.stylusAmos 7:7, Amos 7:8, Amos 7:7, Amos 7:8, Lamentations 2:814And truly, I will send away the remnants of my inheritance, and I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will be devastated and plundered by all their adversaries.stylusJeremiah 23:33, Jeremiah 23:33, 2 Kings 19:4, Psalms 89:38, Psalms 89:4515For they have done evil before me, and they have persevered in provoking me, from the day when their fathers departed from Egypt, even to this day.stylusEzekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 16:15, Ezekiel 16:22, Deuteronomy 9:2116Moreover, Manasseh also has shed an exceedingly great amount of innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem even to the mouth, aside from his sins by which he caused Judah to sin, so that they did evil before the Lord.”stylus2 Chronicles 33:9, Numbers 35:33, 2 Kings 21:11, 2 Chronicles 33:9, Numbers 35:3317Now the rest of the words of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days 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 slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon, his son, 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 had begun to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz, 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, just as his father, Manasseh, had done.stylus2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 21:7, Matthew 23:32, 2 Kings 21:11, 2 Chronicles 33:2221And he walked in all the ways in which his father had walked. And he served the unclean things that his father had served, and he adored them.stylus22And he abandoned the Lord, the God of his fathers, and he 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 28:923And his servants undertook treachery against him. And they killed the king in his own house.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 slew all those who had conspired against king Amon. And they appointed for themselves Josiah, his son, as king in his place.stylus2 Kings 14:5, 2 Kings 14:5, 2 Chronicles 22:1, 2 Samuel 5:3, 2 Kings 14:2125But the rest of the words of Amon, which he did, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah?stylus2 Kings 21:17, 2 Kings 20:20, 2 Kings 21:17, 2 Kings 20:2026And they buried him in his sepulcher, 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