1 Twelve years was Manasseh when he reigned, and fifty years he reigned in Jerusalem; his mother's name was Hephzibah.

2 And he did evil things in the sight of the Lord, imitating the abominations of the nations, whom the Lord had driven out from before the children of Israel.

3 And again he built the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and set up altars to Baal, and made an oak grove, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he worshipped all the host of heaven, and served him.

4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem I will put my name.

5 And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord,

6 And he led his son through the fire, and divined, and divined, and sorcered, and brought in the summoners of the dead, and sorcerers; He has done many things that are not pleasing in the sight of the Lord, in order to provoke Him to anger.

7 And he set up the image of Astarte, which he had made in the house of which the LORD had spoken to David and to Solomon his son, saying, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I set my name for ever;

8 And I will no longer let the foot of Israel go out of the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will strive to do according to all that I have commanded them, and to all the law which my servant Moses commanded them."

9 But they did not listen; And Manasseh led them into doing worse than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And the Lord spake through his servants the prophets, saying,

11 because Manasseh king of Judah had done such abominations, worse than all that the Amorites who were before him had done, and he had made Judah sin with his idols,

12 Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring such evil upon Jerusalem and upon Judah, of which whosoever heareth shall ring in both his ears;

13 And I will stretch out to Jerusalem the measuring cord of Samaria, and the plumb line of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes the cup, they will wipe it and overturn it.

14 And I will cast away the remnant of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they shall be plundered and plundered by all their enemies,