1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2. He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
3. For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he raised up altars for the Baals, made Asheroth, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them.
4. He built altars in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
5. He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the Lord’s house.
6. He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practised sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
7. He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.