1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
2 He did that which was evil in the Lord’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshipped all the army of the sky, and served them.
4 He built altars in the Lord’s house, of which the Lord said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”