18. Everything else that Manasseh did, the prayer he made to his God, and the messages of the prophets who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are all recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.
19. The king's prayer and God's answer to it, and an account of the sins he committed before he repented — the evil he did, the pagan places of worship and the symbols of the goddess Asherah that he made and the idols that he worshipped — are all recorded in The History of the Prophets.
20. Manasseh died and was buried at the palace, and his son Amon succeeded him as king.
21. Amon was 22 years old when he became king of Judah, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.
22. Like his father Manasseh, he sinned against the Lord, and he worshipped the idols that his father had worshipped.
23. But unlike his father, he did not become humble and turn to the Lord; he was even more sinful than his father had been.
24. Amon's officials plotted against him and assassinated him in the palace.
25. The people of Judah killed Amon's assassins and made his son Josiah king.