1. Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.
2. But he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to the abominations of the gentiles whom יהוה dispossessed from before the children of Yisra’ĕl.
3. For again he rebuilt the high places which Ḥizqiyahu his father had broken down, and raised up altars for the Ba‛als, and made Ashĕrim, and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens and served them.
4. And he built altars in the House of יהוה, of which יהוה had said, “In Yerushalayim is My Name, forever.”
5. And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the House of יהוה.