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It was he, too, who immolated his sons by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced augury, divination and magic, and appointed necromancers and diviners of spirits, so that he provoked the LORD with the great evil that he did in his sight. (2 Chronicles 33, 6)
Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem into doing even greater evil than the nations which the LORD had destroyed at the coming of the Israelites. (2 Chronicles 33, 9)
The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. (2 Chronicles 33, 10)
Therefore the LORD brought against them the army commanders of the Assyrian king; they took Manasseh with hooks, shackled him with chains, and transported him to Babylon. (2 Chronicles 33, 11)
In this distress, he began to appease the LORD, his God. He humbled himself abjectly before the God of his fathers (2 Chronicles 33, 12)
and prayed to him. The LORD let himself be won over: he heard his prayer and restored him to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh understood that the LORD is indeed God. (2 Chronicles 33, 13)
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the LORD'S house and all the altars he had built on the mount of the LORD'S house and in Jerusalem, and he cast them outside the city. (2 Chronicles 33, 15)
He restored the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed on it peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel. (2 Chronicles 33, 16)
Though the people continued to sacrifice on the high places, they now did so to the LORD, their God. (2 Chronicles 33, 17)
The rest of the acts of Manasseh, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, can be found written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel. (2 Chronicles 33, 18)
He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Manasseh had done. Amon offered sacrifice to all the idols which his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them. (2 Chronicles 33, 22)
Moreover, he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; on the contrary, Amon only increased his guilt. (2 Chronicles 33, 23)
