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33 A son of 12 years was Manasseh when he became king; and 55 years he reigned in Jerusalem. 2 And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, like the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out from before the sons of Israel. 3 And he turned and built the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and he made Asheroth, and he bowed down to all the host of the heavens, and he served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, about which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem, my name will be forever.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. 6 And he himself caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and he practiced soothsaying, and divination, and he practiced magic, and he dealth with mediums and spirists. He multiplied doing what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him to anger. 7 And he put the image of the idol which he made in the house of God of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will set my name forever. 8 And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from upon the soil that I appointed for your fathers, only if they are careful to do all that I commanded them, all the law, and the statutes, and the judgments by the hand of Moses.” 9 And Manasseh led astray Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh had exterminated from before the sons of Israel.

10 And Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they did not pay attention. 11 And Yahweh brought against them the chiefs of the army which belonged to the king of Assyria. And they captured Manasseh in chains, and they bound him in bronze, and they took him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the face of Yahweh, his God, and he humbled himself much from before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and he heard his supplication, and he brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that Yahweh, he is God.

14 And after this, he built an outer wall for the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entrance of the Fish Gate, and around the hill, and he made it very high. And he put chiefs of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. 15 And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol from the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem. And he threw them outside the city. 16 And he built the altar of Yahweh, and he sacrificed on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings. And he said to Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. 17 However, the people were still sacrificing on the high places, only to Yahweh, their God.

18 And the remainder of the matters of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers, those speaking to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are on the words of the kings of Israel. 19 And his prayer and how he was entreated by him, and all his sin, and his unfaithfulness, and the places where he built in them high places, and he raised Asherim and idols before he humbled himself—behold, they are written in the Words of Hozai.[fn] 20 And Manasseh laid down with his fathers, and they buried him in his house. And Amon, his son, became king in his place.

21 A son of 22 years was Amon when he became king; and two years he reigned in Jerusalem. 22 And he did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh, just as Manasseh, his father, had done. And to all the idols that Manasseh his father made, Amon sacrificed, and he served them. 23 And he did not humble himself from before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father humbled himself, for this Amon multiplied guilt. 24 And his servants conspired against him, and they put him to death in his house. 25 But the people of the land struck down all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah, his son, king in his place.

Some modern versions have the Words of Hozai, which is the reading of the original text. But many modern versions correct it to read the Chronicles of the Seers. Also, a few modern versions have the Chronicles of his seers.

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The Second Book of the Chronicles 33