15. Manasseh also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the lord’s Temple. He tore down all the altars he had built on the hill where the Temple stood and all the altars that were in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
16. Then he restored the altar of the lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings on it. He also encouraged the people of Judah to worship the lord, the God of Israel.
17. However, the people still sacrificed at the pagan shrines, though only to the lord their God.
18. The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, his prayer to God, and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the lord, the God of Israel, are recorded in The Book of the Kings of Israel.
19. Manasseh’s prayer, the account of the way God answered him, and an account of all his sins and unfaithfulness are recorded in The Record of the Seers. It includes a list of the locations where he built pagan shrines and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself and repented.
20. When Manasseh died, he was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the next king.
21. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years.
22. He did what was evil in the lord’s sight, just as his father, Manasseh, had done. He worshiped and sacrificed to all the idols his father had made.
23. But unlike his father, he did not humble himself before the lord. Instead, Amon sinned even more.
24. Then Amon’s own officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace.
25. But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah the next king.