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.
6. And he made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and practised magic, and used divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.
7. And he placed a carved image of the idol which he had made, in the House of Elohim, of which Elohim had said to Dawiḏ and to Shelomoh his son, “In this house and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, I put My Name forever,
8. and no more shall I remove the foot of Yisra’ĕl from the soil which I have appointed for your fathers – only if they guard to do all that I have commanded them, according to all the Torah and the laws and the right-rulings by the hand of Mosheh.”
9. Thus Menashsheh led Yehuḏah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim astray, to do more evil than the gentiles whom יהוה had destroyed before the children of Yisra’ĕl.
10. And יהוה spoke to Menashsheh and to his people, but they did not listen.