^33 (A)They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(B)it is certain to be a snare to you.”

³ For ^(A)he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had destroyed; and ^(B)he erected altars for Baal and made an ^[a]Asherah, just as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he ^(C)worshiped all the heavenly ^[b]lights and served them. ⁴ And ^(D)he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “^(E)In Jerusalem I will put My name.” ⁵ He built altars for ^(F)all the heavenly ^[c]lights in ^(G)the two courtyards of the house of the Lord. ⁶ And ^(H)he made his son pass through the fire, ^(I)interpreted signs, practiced divination, and used mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger. ⁷ Then ^(J)he put the carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “^(K)In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I ^(L)will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will take care to act in accordance with everything that I have commanded them, and with all the Law that My servant Moses commanded them.” ⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh ^(M)encouraged them to do evil, more than the nations whom the Lord eliminated from the presence of the sons of Israel.

The King’s Idolatries Rebuked

¹⁰ Now the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, ¹¹ “^(N)Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, ^(O)having done more evil than all that the Amorites did who were before him, and ^(P)has also misled Judah into sin ^(Q)with his idols, ¹² therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears about it, ^(R)both of his ears will ring. ^13 (S)I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean just as one wipes a bowl, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoils to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.’”