2Ki 21:1-9 | ESV | STEP | Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign , and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem . His mother’s name was Hephzibah .

i[See ver. 3 above]

j ch. 23:12; 1 Kgs. 6:36; 7:12

kSee Lev. 18:21

mSee Lev. 19:26

n ch. 17:17

o ch. 23:24; See Lev. 19:31

p[See ver. 3 above]

q[See ver. 4 above]

r[2 Sam. 7:19]

‏ 2 Kings 21:1-9

Manasseh Reigns in Judah

1 ^aManasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^baccording to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. 3 For he rebuilt the high places ^cthat Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made ^dan Asherah, ^eas Ahab king of Israel had done, ^fand worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 4 ^gAnd he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^h“In Jerusalem will I put my name.” 5 And he built altars ⁱfor all the host of heaven in ^jthe two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 ^kAnd he burned his son as an offering ^{▼▼Hebrew made his son pass through the fire} and ^mused fortune-telling and ⁿomens and dealt ^owith mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And the carved image of ^pAsherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^qand in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever. 8 ^rAnd I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander anymore out of the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the Law that my servant Moses commanded them.” 9 But they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations had done whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.