5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple, he built altars for the entire army of heaven.
6 He burned his son as a sacrifice, consulted fortune tellers, cast evil spells, and appointed ⌊royal⌋ mediums and psychics. He did many things that made the Lord furious.
7 Manasseh had an idol of Asherah made. Then he set it up in the temple, where the Lord had said to David and his son Solomon, “I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here forever.
8 I will never again make Israel’s feet wander from the land that I gave to their ancestors if they will obey all the commands and all the Teachings that my servant Moses gave them.”
9 (But they wouldn’t obey.) Manasseh misled Israel so that they did more evil things than the nations that the Lord had destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.
10 Then the Lord spoke through his servants the prophets:
11 “King Manasseh of Judah has done disgusting things, things more evil than what the Amorites who ⌊were here⌋ before him had done. Manasseh has also made Judah sin by ⌊worshiping⌋ his idols.