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.”
5. He also built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the House of Adonai.
6. Furthermore, he made his children pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom and practiced witchcraft, divination and sorcery, and consulted ghosts and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of Adonai, provoking Him to anger.
7. Then he placed the carved image of the idol that he had made in the House of God—of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this House and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name forever.