¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he started to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem for fifty-five years. And his mother's name was Hephzi-Bah. ²And he did what was wrong in the sight of the Lord, like the abominations of the nations which the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel. ³And he rebuilt the idolatrous raised sites which Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he set up altars to Baal, and he made a phallic park like what Ahab king of Israel had made, and he worshipped every celestial body and served them. ⁴And he built altars in the house of the Lord, where the Lord had said, “I will establish my name in Jerusalem.” ⁵And he built altars to every celestial body in the two courtyards of the house of the Lord. ⁶And he made his son pass through fire, and he divined by clouds and used enchantment, and he engaged in necromancy and wizardry. He was profuse in doing evil in the sight of the Lord, so that he provoked him to anger. ⁷And he set up the phallic carved image which he had made, in the house concerning which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, “I will set up my name age-abidingly in this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel. ⁸And I will not chase Israel around again from the land which I gave their fathers, but only if they take care to do everything which I have commanded them, and to act in accordance with all the law which my servant Moses commanded them.” ⁹But they did not take heed, and Manasseh led them astray, to act worse than the nations which the Lord had destroyed before the sons of Israel. ¹⁰Then the Lord spoke through the intermediacy of his servants the prophets and said, ¹¹“Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done more evil than everything the Amorites did before him, and also caused Judah to sin through his idols, ¹²this is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘I am about to bring evil on Jerusalem and Judah, such that the two ears of all who hear it will tingle. ¹³And I will stretch the measuring line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab over Jerusalem, and I will wipe Jerusalem out as one wipes a dish – one wipes it and turns it upside down. ¹⁴And I will abandon the remainder of my inheritance, and I will deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will be spoil and plunder to all their enemies, ¹⁵because they have done evil in my sight, and they have been provoking me to anger, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt up to this day.’ ” ¹⁶And Manasseh also shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, apart from his sin whereby he caused Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the Lord. ¹⁷And as for the rest of the affairs of Manasseh, and everything he did, and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ¹⁸And Manasseh lay with his fathers, and he was buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his place. ¹⁹Amon was twenty-two years old when he started to reign, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem, and his mother's name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz from Jotbah. ²⁰And he did what was wrong in the sight of the Lord, like what his father Manasseh did. ²¹And he walked in the whole way in which his father walked, and he served the idols which his father had served, and he worshipped them. ²²And he abandoned the Lord God of his fathers, and he did not walk in the way of the Lord. ²³And Amon's servants conspired against him, and they killed the king in his home. ²⁴Then the people of the land struck down all the conspirators against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place. ²⁵And the rest of the exploits of Amon which he undertook, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? ²⁶And they buried him in his grave in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.