1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.2He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, like the abominations of the nations that the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.3He went back and built the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He raised up an altar to Baal and made an Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of the heavens and served them.4He built an altar in the house of the LORD, concerning which the LORD had said in Jerusalem, "I will put my name."5He built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD.6He made his son pass through the fire, practiced divination and augury, and made a ghost and spiritists, doing much evil in the eyes of the LORD to provoke him.7He set up the graven image of the Asherah that he had made, in the house concerning which the LORD 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."8And I will not again cause the foot of Israel to wander from the ground which I have given to their fathers, only if they keep to do according to all which I have commanded them, and according to all the Torah which my servant Moses commanded them.9They did not obey, and Manasseh made them stubborn to do more evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the sons of Israel.10The LORD spoke through his servants the prophets, saying:11Because Manasseh king of Judah has done the abominations of the gods, evils more than all that the Amorites did who were before him, and he caused Judah also to sin by his idols.12Therefore thus says the LORD God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing evil on Jerusalem and Judah, which all who hear it, their two ears will tingle.13And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping and turning it over on its face.14I will abandon the remnant of my inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will be plunder and ridicule to all their enemies.15Because they have done evil in my eyes and have been provoking me from the day that their fathers went out from Egypt until this day.16Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, apart from the sin that he caused Judah to commit, to do evil in the eyes of the LORD.17The rest of the words 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?18Manasseh lay down with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son reigned in his place.