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Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Hephzibah.

For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.

And he made his son to pass through the fire, and interpreted omens, and used magic, and dealt with spiritists and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.

And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Yahweh 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 forever;

And Yahweh spoke by his slaves the prophets, saying,

Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these disgusting things, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols;

therefore this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, Look, I bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both his ears shall tingle.

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 to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that 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 reigned in his stead.

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father.

And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them:

and he forsook Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn't walk in the way of Yahweh.

And the slaves of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house.

But the people of the land slew all those that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Jedidah the daughter of Adaiah of Bozkath.

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in all the way of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

And it came to pass, when the king had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent his clothes.