2 Kings 21:1-9 - Evil Manasseh Reigns After Godly Hezekiah

¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: his mother's name was Hephzibah. ² And he did that displeased the LORD, even after the abominations of the Heathen, which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel. ³ And he went and built the hill altars again, which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. And he reared up altars to Baal and made groves, as did Ahab king of Israel. And he bowed himself unto all the host of heaven and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the very house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put my name." ⁵ And he built altars unto all the host of heaven, even in two courts of the house of the LORD. ⁶ And he offered his son in fire, and observed dismal days; and used witchcraft and maintained workers with spirits, and tellers of fortunes - and wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to anger him.

⁷ And he put an image of a grove that he had made, even in the very temple of which the LORD had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever. ⁸ Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers: so that they will be diligent to do all I have commanded them, and all the law that my servant Moses commanded them." ⁹ But they hearkened not: for Manasseh had led them out of the way, to do more wickedness than did the heathen people which the LORD destroyed from before the children of Israel.