1Manasseh[H4519] was twelve[H8147]years[H8141]old[H1121] when he began to reign[H4427], and reigned[H4427]fifty[H2572] and five[H2568]years[H8141] in Jerusalem[H3389]. And his mother's name[H8034] was Hephzibah[H2657].
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And he did[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068], after the abominations[H8441] of the heathen[H1471], whom the LORD[H3068] cast out[H3423]before[H6440] the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478].
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For he built up[H1129]again[H7725] the high places[H1116] which Hezekiah[H2396] his father[H1] had destroyed[H6]; and he reared up[H6965]altars[H4196] for Baal[H1168], and made[H6213] a grove[H842], as did[H6213]Ahab[H256]king[H4428] of Israel[H3478]; and worshipped[H7812] all the host[H6635] of heaven[H8064], and served[H5647] them.
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And he built[H1129]altars[H4196] in the house[H1004] of the LORD[H3068], of which the LORD[H3068]said[H559], In Jerusalem[H3389] will I put[H7760] my name[H8034].
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And he built[H1129]altars[H4196] for all the host[H6635] of heaven[H8064] in the two[H8147]courts[H2691] of the house[H1004] of the LORD[H3068].
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And he made his son[H1121]pass[H5674] through the fire[H784], and observed times[H6049], and used enchantments[H5172], and dealt[H6213] with familiar spirits[H178] and wizards[H3049]: he wrought[H6213]much[H7235]wickedness[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068], to provoke him to anger[H3707].
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And he set[H7760] a graven image[H6459] of the grove[H842] that he had made[H6213] in the house[H1004], of which the LORD[H3068]said[H559] to David[H1732], and to Solomon[H8010] his son[H1121], In this house[H1004], and in Jerusalem[H3389], which I have chosen[H977] out of all tribes[H7626] of Israel[H3478], will I put[H7760] my name[H8034] for ever[H5769]:
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Neither will I make the feet[H7272] of Israel[H3478]move[H5110] any more[H3254] out of the land[H127] which I gave[H5414] their fathers[H1]; only if they will observe[H8104] to do[H6213] according to all that I have commanded[H6680] them, and according to all the law[H8451] that my servant[H5650]Moses[H4872]commanded[H6680] them.
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But they hearkened[H8085] not: and Manasseh[H4519]seduced[H8582] them to do[H6213] more evil[H7451] than did the nations[H1471] whom the LORD[H3068]destroyed[H8045]before[H6440] the children[H1121] of Israel[H3478].
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And the LORD[H3068]spake[H1696]by[H3027] his servants[H5650] the prophets[H5030], saying[H559],
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Because Manasseh[H4519]king[H4428] of Judah[H3063] hath done[H6213] these abominations[H8441], and hath done[H6213]wickedly[H7489] above all that the Amorites[H567]did[H6213], which were before[H6440] him, and hath made Judah[H3063] also to sin[H2398] with his idols[H1544]:
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Therefore thus saith[H559] the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of Israel[H3478], Behold, I am bringing[H935] such evil[H7451] upon Jerusalem[H3389] and Judah[H3063], that whosoever heareth[H8085] of it, both[H8147] his ears[H241] shall tingle[H6750].
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And I will stretch[H5186] over Jerusalem[H3389] the line[H6957] of Samaria[H8111], and the plummet[H4949] of the house[H1004] of Ahab[H256]: and I will wipe[H4229]Jerusalem[H3389] as a man wipeth[H4229] a dish[H6747], wiping[H4229] it, and turning[H2015] it upside down[H6440].
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And I will forsake[H5203] the remnant[H7611] of mine inheritance[H5159], and deliver[H5414] them into the hand[H3027] of their enemies[H341]; and they shall become a prey[H957] and a spoil[H4933] to all their enemies[H341];
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Because they have done[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in my sight[H5869], and have provoked[H4480] me to anger[H3707], since the day[H3117] their fathers[H1] came forth[H3318] out of Egypt[H4714], even unto this day[H3117].
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Moreover Manasseh[H4519]shed[H8210]innocent[H5355]blood[H1818]very[H3966]much[H7235], till he had filled[H4390]Jerusalem[H3389] from one end[H6310] to another[H6310]; beside his sin[H2403] wherewith he made Judah[H3063] to sin[H2398], in doing[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068].
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Now the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Manasseh[H4519], and all that he did[H6213], and his sin[H2403] that he sinned[H2398], are they not written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Judah?[H3063]
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And Manasseh[H4519]slept[H7901] with his fathers[H1], and was buried[H6912] in the garden[H1588] of his own house[H1004], in the garden[H1588] of Uzza[H5798]: and Amon[H526] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.
19Amon[H526] was twenty[H6242] and two[H8147]years[H8141]old[H1121] when he began to reign[H4427], and he reigned[H4427]two[H8147]years[H8141] in Jerusalem[H3389]. And his mother's name[H8034] was Meshullemeth[H4922], the daughter[H1323] of Haruz[H2743] of Jotbah[H3192].
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And he did[H6213] that which was evil[H7451] in the sight[H5869] of the LORD[H3068], as his father[H1]Manasseh[H4519]did[H6213].
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And he walked[H3212]in[H1980] all the way[H1870] that his father[H1]walked[H3212]in[H1980], and served[H5647] the idols[H1544] that his father[H1]served[H5647], and worshipped[H7812] them:
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And he forsook[H5800] the LORD[H3068]God[H430] of his fathers[H1], and walked[H1980] not in the way[H1870] of the LORD[H3068].
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And the servants[H5650] of Amon[H526]conspired[H7194] against him, and slew[H4191] the king[H4428] in his own house[H1004].
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And the people[H5971] of the land[H776]slew[H5221] all them that had conspired[H7194] against king[H4428]Amon[H526]; and the people[H5971] of the land[H776] made Josiah[H2977] his son[H1121]king[H4427] in his stead.
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Now the rest[H3499] of the acts[H1697] of Amon[H526] which he did[H6213], are they not written[H3789] in the book[H5612] of the chronicles[H1697] of the kings[H4428] of Judah?[H3063]
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And he was buried[H6912] in his sepulchre[H6900] in the garden[H1588] of Uzza[H5798]: and Josiah[H2977] his son[H1121]reigned[H4427] in his stead.