2 Chronicles 33:1-9 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Brenton⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. ² And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel. ³ And he returned and built the high places, which his father Ezekias had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. ⁴ And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever. ⁵ And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ He also passed his children through the fire in the valley of Benennom; and he divined, and used auspices, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke him. ⁷ And he set the graven image, the molten statue, the idol which he made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever; ⁸ and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments given by the hand of Moses. ⁹ So Manasses led astray Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.