8. If my people will faithfully obey all the commands in the Law of my servant Moses, I will never make them leave the land I gave to their ancestors.
9. But the people of Judah disobeyed the Lord. They listened to Manasseh and did even more sinful things than the nations the Lord had wiped out.
10. One day the Lord said to some of his prophets:
11. King Manasseh has done more disgusting things than the Amorites, and he has led my people to sin by forcing them to worship his idols.
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.