³ He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down^(A) and reestablished the altars for the Baals. He made Asherah poles, and he worshiped the whole heavenly host and served them. ⁴ He built altars^(B) in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.”^{(C) 5} He built altars to the whole heavenly host in both courtyards^(D) of the Lord’s temple. ⁶ He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Hinnom.^(E) He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists.^(F) He did a great deal of evil in the Lord’s sight, provoking Him.

⁷ Manasseh^(G) set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God’s temple,^(H) about which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever^[a](I) in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.^(J)