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¹ Manasseh was twelue yeere olde when he began to reigne, and reigned fiftie and fiue yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Hephzi-bah.

² And he did euill in the sight of the Lorde after the abomination of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

³ For he went backe and built the hie places, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed: and he erected vp altars for Baal, and made a groue, as did Ahab King of Israel, and worshipped all the hoste of heauen and serued them.

⁴ Also he built altars in the house of the Lorde, of the which the Lorde saide, In Ierusalem will I put my Name.

⁵ And he built altars for al the hoste of ye heauen in the two courtes of the house of the Lord.

⁶ And he made his sonRead (2Ki_16:3).pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke [him] to anger.

⁷ And he set the image of the groue, that he had made, in the house, whereof ye Lord had saide to Dauid & to Salomon his sonne, In this house and in Ierusalem, which I haue chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name for euer.

⁸ Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they willTherefore seeing they did not obey the commandment of God, they were justly cast from the land which they had only on condition.observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

⁹ Yet they obeyed not, but Manasseh ledde them out of the way, to doe more wickedly then did the heathen people, whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

¹⁰ Therefore the Lorde spake by his seruants the Prophets, saying,

¹¹ Because that Manasseh King of Iudah hath done such abominations, and hath wrought more wickedly then al that the Amorites (which were before him) did, and hath made Iudah sinne also with his idoles,

¹² Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I [am] bringing [such] evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shallMeaning, that whoever hears of this great plague, will be astonished.tingle.

¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem the lineAs I have destroyed Samaria and the house of Ahab so will I destroy Judah.of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as [a man] wipeth a dish, wiping [it], and turning [it] upside down.

¹⁴ And I will forsake theMeaning, Judah and Benjamin, which were the only ones left of the rest of the tribes.remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;

¹⁵ Because they haue done euil in my sight, and haue prouoked mee to anger, since the time their fathers came out of Egypt vntill this day.

¹⁶ Moreover Manasseh shedThe Hebrews write that he slew Isaiah the prophet, who was his father-in-law.innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.

¹⁷ Concerning the rest of the actes of Manasseh, and all that hee did, and his sinne that he sinned, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

¹⁸ And Manasseh slept with his fathers, & was buried in the garden of his own house, euen in the garden of Vzza: and Amon his sonne reigned in his steade.

¹⁹ Amon was two and twentie yere olde, when he began to reigne, and hee reygned two yeere in Ierusalem: his mothers name also was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Iotbah.

²⁰ And he did euill in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.

²¹ For hee walked in all the way that his father walked in, and serued the idoles that his father serued, and worshipped them.

²² And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in theThat is, according to his commandment.way of the LORD.

²³ And the seruantes of Amon conspired against him, and slewe the King in his owne house.

²⁴ And the people of the land slewe all them that had conspired against King Amon, and the people made Iosiah his sonne King in his steade.

²⁵ Concerning the rest of the actes of Amon, which he did, are they not written in the booke of the Chronicles of the Kings of Iudah?

²⁶ And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Vzza: and Iosiah his sonne reigned in his steade.