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For he rebuilt* the highplaceswhichHezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erectedaltars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahabking of Israel had done, and worshipedall the host of heaven and served them.
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He made his sonpass through the fire, practicedwitchcraft and useddivination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He didmuchevil in the sight of the LORDprovoking Him to anger.
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Then he set the carvedimage of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORDsaid to David and to his sonSolomon, "In thishouse and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My nameforever.
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"And I will not make the feet of Israelwanderanymore from the landwhich I gave their fathers, ifonly they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servantMosescommanded them."
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"Because*Manassehking of Judah has donetheseabominations, having donewickedlymorethanall the Amoritesdidwho were before him, and has also made Judahsin with his idols;
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thereforethussays the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoeverhears of it, both his ears will tingle.
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'I will stretchoverJerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipeJerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside*down.
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'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;
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Moreover, Manassehshedverymuchinnocentblooduntil* he had filledJerusalem from oneend to another; besides* his sin with which he made Judahsin, in doingevil in the sight of the LORD.
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sinwhich he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles* of the Kings of Judah?
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Amon was twenty-two*yearsold when he becameking, and he reignedtwoyears in Jerusalem; and his mother'sname was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.