2 Chronicles 33

Revised Geneva Translation

33 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign. And he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

² And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, like the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

³ For he went back and built the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he set up altars for Baal and made groves and worshipped all the host of the heaven and served them.

⁴ Also, he built altars in the House of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall My Name be forever.”

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 sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom. He gave himself to witchcraft and to charming and to sorcery. And he used mediums and soothsayers. He did very much evil in the sight of the LORD to anger Him.

⁷ He also put the carved image which he had made in the House of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon, his son, “In this House and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name forever.

⁸ “I will no longer remove the foot of Israel out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers, so that they consider and do all that I have Commanded them, according to the Law and Statutes and Judgments by the hand of Moses.”

⁹ So, Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem err, to do worse than the heathen whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

¹⁰ And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they would not pay attention.

¹¹ Therefore, the LORD brought the captains of the army of the king of Assyria upon them, who took Manasseh in fetters and bound him in chains and carried him to Babel.

¹² And when he was in tribulation, he prayed to the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

¹³ and prayed to him. And God was moved by him, and heard his prayer, and brought him back to Jerusalem, into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

¹⁴ Now after this, he built a wall outside the City of David, on the western side of Gihon, in the valley, at the entry of the Fish Gate. And it surrounded Ophel and was raised very high. And he put captains of war in all the strong cities of Judah.

¹⁵ And he took away the strange gods and the image out of the House of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the House of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

¹⁶ Also, he prepared the Altar of the LORD, and sacrificed Peace Offerings on it, and those of thanks, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

¹⁷ Nonetheless, the people still sacrificed in the high places, but to the LORD their God.

¹⁸ Concerning the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the Seers who spoke to him in the Name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are in the Book of the Kings of Israel.

¹⁹ And his prayer and how God was moved by him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set groves and images (before he was humbled), behold, they are written in the Book of the Seers.

²⁰ So, Manasseh slept with his fathers. And they buried him in his own house. And Amon, his son, reigned in his place.

²¹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign and reigned for two years in Jerusalem.

²² But he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father. For Amon sacrificed to all the images which Manasseh his father had made and served them.

²³ And he did not humble himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself. But this Amon trespassed more and more.

²⁴ And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.

²⁵ But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon. And the people of the land made Josiah, his son, king in his place.