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.
4. He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
5. And he built them for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.