2 Kings 21
1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign * , and reigned * fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hephzibah.
2. And he did * that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out * before the children of Israel.
3. For he built up * again * the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed * ; and he reared up * altars for Baal, and made * a grove,as did * Ahab king of Israel;and worshipped * all the host of heaven, and served * them.
4. And he built * altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said * , In Jerusalem will I put * my name.
5. And he built * altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
6. And he made his son pass * through the fire, and observed times * , and used enchantments * , and dealt * with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought * much * wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger * .
7. And he set * a graven image of the grove that he had made * in the house, of which the LORD said * to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen * out of all tribes of Israel, will I put * my name for ever:
8. Neither will I make the feet of Israel move * any more * out of the land which I gave * their fathers; only if they will observe * to do * according to all that I have commanded * them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded * them.
9. But they hearkened * not: and Manasseh seduced * them to do * more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed * before the children of Israel.
10. And the LORD spake * by his servants the prophets, saying * ,
11. Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done * these abominations, and hath done wickedly * above all that the Amorites did * , which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin * with his idols:
12. Therefore thus saith * the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing * such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah,that whosoever heareth * of it, both his ears shall tingle * .
13. And I will stretch * over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe * Jerusalem as a man wipeth * a dish, wiping * it, and turning * it upside down.
14. And I will forsake * the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver * them into the hand of their enemies * ; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies * ;
15. Because they have done * that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger * , since the day their fathers came forth * out of Egypt, even unto this day.
16. Moreover Manasseh shed * innocent blood very much * , till he had filled * Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin * , in doing * that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did * , and his sin that he sinned * , are they not written * in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
18. And Manasseh slept * with his fathers, and was buried * in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned * in his stead.
19. Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign * , and he reigned * two years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20. And he did * that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did * .
21. And he walked * in all the way that his father walked in * , and served * the idols that his father served * , and worshipped * them:
22. And he forsook * the LORD God of his fathers, and walked * not in the way of the LORD.
23. And the servants of Amon conspired * against him, and slew * the king in his own house.
24. And the people of the land slew * all them that had conspired * against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king * in his stead.
25. Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did * , are they not written * in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26. And he was buried * in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned * in his stead.
