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Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah sin, in doing what is evil in the sight of Yahweh.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son became king in his place.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done.

And he walked in all the way that his father had walked and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.

So he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.

Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his own house.

Then the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

And he was buried in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

And he did what was right in the sight of Yahweh and walked in all the way of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Now it happened that when the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

Then the king stood by the pillar and cut a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to establish the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

He also defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire for Molech.

And he said, "Let him alone; let no one move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

And before him there was no king like him who turned to Yahweh with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

However, Yahweh did not turn from His great burning anger, His anger which burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him to anger.

In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he put him to death at Megiddo.

And his servants drove his body in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.