14. Later, Manasseh rebuilt the eastern section of Jerusalem's outer wall and made it taller. This section went from Gihon Valley north to Fish Gate and around the part of the city called Mount Ophel. He also assigned army officers to each of the fortified cities in Judah.
15. Manasseh also removed the idols and the stone image of the foreign god from the temple, and he gathered the altars he had built near the temple and in other parts of Jerusalem. He threw all these things outside the city.
16. Then he repaired the Lord's altar and offered sacrifices to thank him and sacrifices to ask his blessing. He gave orders that everyone in Judah must worship the Lord God of Israel.
17. The people obeyed Manasseh, but they worshipped the Lord at their own shrines.
18. Everything else Manasseh did while he was king, including his prayer to the Lord God and the warnings from his prophets, is written in The History of the Kings of Israel.
19. Hozai wrote a lot about Manasseh, including his prayer and God's answer. But Hozai also recorded the evil things Manasseh did before turning back to God, as well as a list of places where Manasseh set up idols, and where he built local shrines and places to worship Asherah.
20. Manasseh died and was buried near the palace, and his son Amon became king.
21. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled from Jerusalem for two years.
22. Amon disobeyed the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done, and he worshipped and offered sacrifices to the idols his father had made.
23. Manasseh had turned back to the Lord, but Amon refused to do that. Instead, he sinned even more than his father.
24. Some of Amon's officials plotted against him and killed him in his palace.
25. But the people of Judah killed the murderers of Amon and made his son Josiah king.