Manasseh Succeeds Hezekiah in Judah

33 (A)Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. (B)He did evil in the sight of the Lord according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel. For (C)he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; (D)he also erected altars for the Baals and made [a]Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:3 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity