⁷ Manasseh^(A) set up a carved image of the idol he had made, in God’s temple,^(B) about which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever^[a](C) in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.^{(D) 8} I will never again remove the feet of the Israelites from the land where I stationed your^[b](E) ancestors,^(F) if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them through Moses—all the law, statutes, and judgments.” ⁹ So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.