33 Ma·nasʹseh was 12 years old when he became king, and he reigned for 55 years in Yerushalom.
2 He did what was bad in Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s eyes, following the detestable practices of the nations that Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} had driven out from before the people of Isra'Al. 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hez·e·kyʹah had torn down, he set up altars to the Baʹals and made sacred poles, and he bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them. 4 He also built altars in the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, about which Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} had said: “In Yerushalom my name will be forever.” 5 And he built altars to all the army of the heavens in two courtyards of the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}. 6 And he made his own sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinʹnom; he practiced magic, used divination, practiced sorcery, and appointed spirit mediums and fortune-tellers. He did on a grand scale what was bad in Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s eyes, to offend him.
7 He put the carved image that he made into the house of the true Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} about which Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} had said to David and to his son Solʹo·mon: “In this house and in Yerushalom, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Isra'Al, I will permanently put my name. 8 And I will never again remove the feet of Isra'Al from the land that I assigned to their forefathers, provided they carefully observe all that I have commanded them, the entire Law, the regulations and the judicial decisions given through Moses.” 9 Ma·nasʹseh kept leading Judah and the inhabitants of Yerushalom astray, causing them to do worse than the nations that Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} had annihilated from before the Isra'Al·ites.
10 Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} kept speaking to Ma·nasʹseh and his people, but they paid no attention. 11 So Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} brought against them the army chiefs of the king of As·syrʹi·a, and they captured Ma·nasʹseh with hooks and bound him with two copper fetters and took him to Babylon. 12 In his distress, he begged Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} his Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} for favor and kept humbling himself greatly before the Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} of his forefathers. 13 He kept praying to Him, and He was moved by his entreaty and heard his request for favor, and He restored him to Yerushalom to his kingship. Then Ma·nasʹseh came to know that Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} is the true Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'}.
14 After this he built an outer wall for the City of David west of Giʹhon in the valley and as far as the Fish Gate, and he continued it around to Oʹphel, and he made it very high. Further, he appointed army chiefs in all the fortified cities in Judah. 15 He then removed the foreign gods and the idol image from the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} and in Yerushalom, and he had them thrown outside the city. 16 He also prepared the altar of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} and began to offer up communion sacrifices and thanksgiving sacrifices on it, and he told Judah to serve Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} the Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} of Isra'Al. 17 Nevertheless, the people were still sacrificing on the high places, although only to Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} their Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'}.
18 As for the rest of the history of Ma·nasʹseh, his prayer to his Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'}, and the words of the visionaries who spoke to him in the name of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} the Yahavah {Yah'-ha-vah'} of Isra'Al, they are recorded in the history of the kings of Isra'Al. 19 Also his prayer and how his entreaty was granted him, all his sins and his unfaithfulness, the locations where he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the graven images before he humbled himself, they are written among the words of his visionaries. 20 Then Ma·nasʹseh was laid to rest with his forefathers, and they buried him at his house; and his son Aʹmon became king in his place.
21 Aʹmon was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Yerushalom. 22 And he continued to do what was bad in Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s eyes, just as his father Ma·nasʹseh had done; and Aʹmon sacrificed to all the graven images that his father Ma·nasʹseh had made, and he kept serving them. 23 But he did not humble himself before Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} as Ma·nasʹseh his father had humbled himself; instead, Aʹmon greatly increased his guilt. 24 Eventually his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house. 25 But the people of the land struck down all those who conspired against King Aʹmon, and they made his son Jo·syʹah king in his place.