12. Now I, the Lord God of Israel, will destroy both Jerusalem and Judah! People will hear about it but won't believe it.
13. Jerusalem is as sinful as Ahab and the people of Samaria were. So I will wipe out Jerusalem and be done with it, just as someone wipes water off a plate and turns it over to dry.
14. I will even get rid of my people who survive. They will be defeated and robbed by their enemies.
15. My people have done what I hate and have not stopped making me angry since their ancestors left Egypt.
16. Manasseh was guilty of causing the people of Judah to sin and disobey the Lord. He also refused to protect innocent people—he even let so many of them be killed that their blood filled the streets of Jerusalem.
17. Everything else Manasseh did while he was king, including his terrible sins, is written in The History of the Kings of Judah.