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Manasseh also built altars for all the host of heaven[a] in the two courts of the house of the Lord. Further, he immolated his sons by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, practiced soothsaying, divination, and sorcery, and had dealings with mediums and wizards. Thus he perpetrated great evil in the sight of the Lord and aroused his anger.

Manasseh took the carved image of the idol that he had made and placed it in the house of God, concerning which God had said to David and to Solomon his son: “In this house, and in Jerusalem, the city which I chose out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish my name forever.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:5 Host of heaven: the reference is to the astral divinities of the pagan world, and especially of Babylonia.