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He built altars for all the groups of stars in the two yards of the Lord’s Temple. He also burned his own children for a sacrifice in the Valley of Ben Hinnom.[a] He also used magic by doing soothsaying, divination, and sorcery.[b] He talked with mediums and wizards. He did many things that the Lord said were evil and made him angry. Manasseh also made a statue of an idol and put it in God’s Temple—the very same Temple that God had talked about to David and his son Solomon. God had said, “I will put my name in this house and in Jerusalem—the city that I chose from all the cities in all the tribes—and my name will be there forever!

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:6 Valley of Ben Hinnom Later, called “Gehenna.” This valley was west and south of Jerusalem. Many babies and young children were sacrificed to false gods in this valley.
  2. 2 Chronicles 33:6 soothsaying, divination, and sorcery Different ways people try to do magic or tell what will happen in the future.

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