⁶ He passed his sons through the fire in Ben Hinnom Valley.^(A) He practiced witchcraft, divination, and sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists.^(B) He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.

⁷ Manasseh^(C) set up a carved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s temple^(D) that God had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: “I will establish my name forever^[a](E) in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.^{(F) 8} I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your^[b](G) ancestors,^(H) if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them through Moses—all the law, statutes, and judgments.”