3. For he turned and built the high places which Ḥizqiyahu his father had destroyed, and raised up altars for Ba‛al, and made an Ashĕrah, as Aḥaḇ sovereign of Yisra’ĕl had done, and he 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 I put My Name.”
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 son pass through the fire, and practised magic, and used divination, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.
7. And he placed a carved image of Ashĕrah that he had made in the House of which יהוה 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,