1. Manasseh was 12 years old when he became king, and he reigned 55 years in Jerusalem.
2. He did evil in the sight of Adonai, just like the abominations of the nations that Adonai had driven out before Bnei-Yisrael.
3. For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he reerected altars for the Baalim, made Asherah poles, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and worshipped them.
4. He built altars in the House of Adonai—of which Adonai had said, “My Name will be in Jerusalem forever.”