1 Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.
2 But he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to the abominations of the gentiles whom יהוה dispossessed from before the children of Yisra’ĕl.
3 For again he rebuilt the high places which Ḥizqiyahu his father had broken down, and raised up altars for the Ba‛als, and made Ashĕrim, and bowed himself to all the host of the heavens and served them.
4 And he built altars in the House of יהוה, of which יהוה had said, “In Yerushalayim is My Name, forever.”
5 And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the House of יהוה.
6 And he made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and practised magic, and used divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.
7 And he placed a carved image of the idol which he had made, in the House of Elohim, of which Elohim had said to Dawiḏ and to Shelomoh his son, “In this house and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, I put My Name forever,