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.
8. I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
9. Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
10. The Lord spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.
11. Therefore the Lord brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
12. When he was in distress, he begged the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
13. He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.
14. Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
15. He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the Lord’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the Lord’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
16. He built up the Lord’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel.