³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, ^(A)it will surely be a snare to you.”

³ For he rebuilt the ^[a]high places ^(A)which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a ^[b]wooden image, ^(B)as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he ^(C)worshiped all ^[c]the host of heaven and served them. ^4 (D)He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^(E)“In Jerusalem I will put My name.” ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the ^(F)two courts of the house of the Lord. ^6 (G)Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced ^(H)soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. ⁷ He even set a carved image of ^[d]Asherah that he had made, in the ^[e]house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, ^(I)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; ^8 (J)and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers—only if they are 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 paid no attention, and Manasseh ^(K)seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.

¹⁰ And the Lord spoke ^(L)by His servants the prophets, saying, ^11 (M)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (^(N)he has acted more wickedly than all the ^(O)Amorites who were before him, and ^(P)has also made Judah sin with his idols), ¹² therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both ^(Q)his ears will tingle. ¹³ And I will stretch over Jerusalem ^(R)the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; ^(S)I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ So I will forsake the ^(T)remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”