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21 Menashsheh was twelve when he became king, and he reigned over Yehudah from Yerushalem for fifty-five years. (His mother was Heftsivah.) 2 He did what Yahweh had said was evil like the evil behaviour of the people groups that Yahweh had driven out of the region ahead of the Israelis.[ref] 3 In fact he went backwards from his father and rebuilt the hilltop shrines high places that Hizkiyyah had destroyed, and he made altars for Baal, and he made an Asherah pole, just like Israel’s King Ahab had, and he worshipped the constellations and followed astrology. 4 Also he built altars in Yahweh’s residence, where Yahweh had said, “I will establish my reputation in Yerushalem.”[ref] 5 Menashsheh built altars to all the constellations in the two courts of the temple. 6 He even sacrificed his own son as a burnt offering. He practised divination and read omens, and consulted mediums and fortune-tellers. He did so much that Yahweh had said was evil, provoking Yahweh to get angry. 7 He placed the Asherah idol that he’d made, in the temple about which Yahweh had said to David and to his Shelomoh (Solomon), “I will establish my reputation forever in this house and in Yerushalem in Yehudah, which I’ve chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.[ref] 8 If only the Israelis will take care to obey everything that I’ve commanded them, and all the instructions that my servant Mosheh gave them, then I won’t continue to cause them to leave the area that I gave to their ancestors.” 9 But they didn’t listen and Menashsheh led them astray to do more evil things even than the people groups that Yahweh had destroyed as the people had entered the region.