2 Chronicles 33:1-9 Twelve years old, was Manasseh when he began to reign,––and, fifty

Rotherham⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Twelve years old, was Manasseh when he began to reign,––and, fifty–five years, reigned he in Jerusalem. ² And he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh,–according to the abominable ways of the nations, whom Yahweh dispossessed from before the sons of Israel. ³ And he again built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had thrown down,––and set up altars to the Baalim, and made Sacred Stems, and bowed in prostration unto all the army of the heavens, and served them; ⁴ and built altars in the house of Yahweh,––as to which Yahweh had said, In Jerusalem, shall be my Name, unto times age–abiding. ⁵ Yea he built altars unto all the army of the heavens,––in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. ⁶ And, he, caused his sons to pass through the fire, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practised hidden arts and used divination, and practised sorcery, and appointed a necromancer, and a wizard,––he exceeded in doing the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger; ⁷ and he set a resemblance–image which he had made,––in the house of God, as to which God had said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my Name, unto times age–abiding. ⁸ So will I not again remove the foot of Israel away from the soil which I appointed for their fathers. Only they must observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the regulations, by the hand of Moses. ⁹ And so Manasseh led astray Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,––to commit wickedness beyond the nations which Yahweh had destroyed from before the sons of Israel.