³ He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed^(A) and re-established the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah,^(B) as King Ahab of Israel had done;^(C) he also bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky^(D) and served them.

⁷ Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.^(A)

³ He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down^(A) and re-established the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky and served them.