33 ¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 33 ² He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the people of Israel. 33 ³ For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had broken down, and erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 33 ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever." 33 ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. 33 ⁶ And he burned his sons as an offering in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger. 33 ⁷ And the image of the idol which he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever; 33 ⁸ and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses." 33 ⁹ Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the people of Israel. - Manasseh repents.  2Chr.33.10-17

33 ¹⁰ Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they gave no heed. 33 ¹¹ Therefore Yahweh brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks and bound him with fetters of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 33 ¹² And when he was in distress he entreated the favour of Yahweh his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 33 ¹³ He prayed to him, and God received his entreaty and heard his supplication and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

33 ¹⁴ Afterwards he built an outer wall for the city of David west of Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into the Fish Gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it to a very great height; he also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. 33 ¹⁵ And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. 33 ¹⁶ He also restored the altar of Yahweh and offered upon it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving; and he commanded Judah to serve Yahweh the God of Israel. 33 ¹⁷ Nevertheless the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to Yahweh their God. - The end of Manasseh's reign.  2Chr.33.18-20- 2Kgs.21.17-18 | KNSB Contents | notes

33 ¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh the God of Israel, behold, they are in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. 33 ¹⁹ And his prayer, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers. 33 ²⁰ So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.