1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
2. And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel:
3. And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.