6. He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits.He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.
7. The Asherah idol he had made, he placed in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon: In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I shall set my name forever.
8. I will no longer make Israel step out of the land I gave their ancestors, provided that they are careful to observe all I have commanded them and the entire law which Moses my servant enjoined upon them.
9. But they did not listen.Manasseh misled them into doing even greater evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites.
10. Then the Lord spoke through his servants the prophets:
11. “Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has practiced these abominations, and has done greater evil than all that was done by the Amorites before him, and has led Judah into sin by his idols,
12. therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am about to bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that, when any hear of it, their ears shall ring: