The king of Israel confirmed the matter about which the man of God had warned him. Having been forewarned, he was able to protect himself there on more than one or two occasions.

Elisha replied, "Stop being afraid, because there are more with us than with them!"

He said, "May God do to me and more also! if the head of Shaphat's son Elisha remains on his shoulders today!"

So the priests agreed to receive no more cash from the people, but they didn't repair the leaks in the Temple, either.

But they would not listen. Manasseh led them astray to practice more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed in the presence of the Israelis.

"Because King Manasseh of Judah has committed these despicable things, acting more sinfully than did all of the Amorites who preceded him, including making Judah sin with its idols,