2 Chronicles 33:10-19 - Manasseh's Repentance

¹⁰ And when the LORD spake to Manasseh and to his people, they attended not to him. ¹¹ Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the Captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in a hold and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon. ¹² And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God.

¹⁴ After that, he built a wall without the city of David on the west side of Gihon in the brook and so forth to the fish gate and round about Ophel, and brought it up of a very great height, and put captains of war in all the strong cities of Judah.

¹⁵ And he took away the strange gods and the Idol out of the house of God, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of God and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. ¹⁶ And he made an altar unto the LORD and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and charged Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, the people did offer still in the hill altars; howbeit unto the LORD their God only.

¹⁸ The rest of the acts of Manasseh and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers of visions that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are written among the deeds of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹ And his prayer and how he was heard, and all his sin and trespass, and the places where he made hill altars and set up groves and carved Images before he was meekened, are written among the deeds of the seers of visions.