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Menasheh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.
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He did that which was evil in the sight of the Yahuah, after the abominations of the nations whom the Yahuah cast out before the children of Yisra’el.
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For he built again the high places which Chizqiyahu his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.
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He built altars in the house of the Yahuah, of which the Yahuah said, "My name shall be in Yerushalayim forever."
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He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of the Yahuah.
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He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of the Yahuah, to provoke him to anger.
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He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in Elohim's house, of which Elohim said to Daviyd and to Shəlomah his son, "In this house, and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’el, will I put my name forever:
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neither will I any more remove the foot of Yisra’el from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the Torah and the statutes and the ordinances given by Mosheh."
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Menasheh seduced Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so that they did more evil than the nations whom the Yahuah destroyed before the children of Yisra’el did.
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The Yahuah spoke to Menasheh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.
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Therefore the Yahuah brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Menasheh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Bavel.
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When he was in distress, he begged the Yahuah his Elohim, and humbled himself greatly before the Elohim of his fathers.
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He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Yerushalayim into his kingdom. Then Menasheh knew that the Yahuah was Elohim.
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Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of Daviyd, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Yehudah.
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He took away the foreign powers, and the idol out of the house of the Yahuah, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of the Yahuah, and in Yerushalayim, and cast them out of the city.
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He built up the altar of the Yahuah, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Yehudah to serve the Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra’el.
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Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to the Yahuah their Elohim.
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Now the rest of the acts of Menasheh, and his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Yahuah, the Elohim of Yisra’el, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Yisra’el.
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His prayer also, and how Elohim was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
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So Menasheh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.
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Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim.
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He did that which was evil in the sight of the Yahuah, as did Menasheh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Menasheh his father had made, and served them.
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He did not humble himself before the Yahuah, as Menasheh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
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His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house.
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But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Yoshiyahu his son king in his place.