1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 2And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, according to the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah had cast out before the children of Israel. 3For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he raised up altars for the Baals, and made groves; and he bowed down to all the host of the heavens and served them. 4He also built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall My name be always. 5And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. 6He also caused his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; he practiced fortunetelling, witchcraft and sorcery, and consulted mediums and necromancers. He did much evil in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke Him to anger. 7And he set a graven image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name always; 8and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers; only if they take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole Law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. 9So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go astray, to do more evil than the nations whom Jehovah had destroyed before the children of Israel. 10And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen. 11Therefore Jehovah brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon. 12And when he was in distress, he entreated Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, 13and prayed to Him; and He was entreated of him, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh recognized that Jehovah was God. 14After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it encircled Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. And he stationed commanders of the forces in all the fortified cities of Judah. 15He took away the foreign gods and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem; and he cast them out of the city. 16He also repaired the altar of Jehovah, sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah the God of Israel. 17However the people still sacrificed on the high places; nevertheless to Jehovah their God. 18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. 19Also his prayer and his entreaty, and all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers. 20So Manasseh rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon reigned in his place. 21Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 22And he did evil in the eyes of Jehovah, as his father Manasseh had done; for Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which his father Manasseh had made, and served them. 23And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but Amon exceeded his guilt. 24Then his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his own house. 25But the people of the land executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.