Manasseh's Idolatrous Reign in Judah

(2 Chronicles 33:1-9)

1Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba. 2And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel. 3And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his father, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them. 4And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name. 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven, in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. 6And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divinations, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers, to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him. 7He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever. 8And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them. 9But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

Manasseh's Idolatries Rebuked

(2 Chronicles 33:10-20)

10And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying: 11Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings: 12Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle. 13And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the pencil often over the face thereof. 14And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and a spoil to all their enemies. 15Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

16Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord. 17Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin, which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? 18And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned in his stead.

Amon's Evil Reign in Judah

(2 Chronicles 33:21-25)

19Two and twenty years old was Amon when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth, the daughter of Harus, of Jeteba. 20And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses, his father, had done. 21And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them. 22And forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord. 23And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house. 24But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon: and made Josias, his son, their king in his stead. 25But the rest of the acts of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda? 26And they buried him in his sepulchre, in the garden of Oza: and his son, Josias, reigned in his stead.