13. I will stretch the measuring line of Samaria over Jerusalem, and the plumb line used against Ahab’s family will be used on Jerusalem. I will wipe out Jerusalem as a person wipes a dish and turns it upside down.
14. I will throw away the rest of my people who are left. I will give them to their enemies, and they will be robbed by all their enemies,
15. because my people did what I said was wrong. They have made me angry from the day their ancestors left Egypt until now.’ ”
16. Manasseh also killed many innocent people, filling Jerusalem from one end to the other with their blood. This was besides the sin he led Judah to do; he led Judah to do what the Lord said was wrong.
17. The other things Manasseh did as king, even the sin he did, are written in the book of the history of the kings of Judah.
18. Manasseh died and was buried in the garden of his own palace, the garden of Uzza. Then Manasseh’s son Amon became king in his place.
19. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he was king for two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz, who was from Jotbah.
20. Amon did what the Lord said was wrong, as his father Manasseh had done.
21. He lived in the same way his father had lived: he worshiped the idols his father had worshiped, and he bowed down before them.
22. Amon rejected the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not follow the ways of the Lord.
23. Amon’s officers made plans against him and killed him in his palace.
24. Then the people of the land killed all those who had made plans to kill King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.