Then (A)he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “(B)In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. And I (C)will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.” But they did not listen, and Manasseh (D)seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.

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