¹⁰ The Lord said through his servants the prophets: ¹¹ “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil^(A) than the Amorites^(B) who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.^{(C) 12} Therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster^(D) on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.^{(E) 13} I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line^(F) used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe^(G) out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ I will forsake^(H) the remnant^(I) of my inheritance and give them into the hands of enemies. They will be looted and plundered by all their enemies; ¹⁵ they have done evil^(J) in my eyes and have aroused^(K) my anger from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.”

¹⁶ Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood^(L) that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah^(M) to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

¹⁷ As for the other events of Manasseh’s reign, and all he did, including the sin he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah? ¹⁸ Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace garden,^(N) the garden of Uzza. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.

Amon King of Judah^(O)

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah. ²⁰ He did evil^(P) in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done. ²¹ He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them. ²² He forsook^(Q) the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk^(R) in obedience to him.

²³ Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated^(S) the king in his palace. ²⁴ Then the people of the land killed^(T) all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah^(U) his son king in his place.

³² Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders^(A) were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Don’t you see how this murderer^(B) is sending someone to cut off my head?^(C) Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”