2 Chronicles 33:10-17

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Manasseh’s Repentance

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.^{(A) 11} So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.^{(B) 12} When he was in distress, he sought the favor of Yahweh his God and earnestly humbled himself^(C) before the God of his ancestors. ¹³ He prayed to Him, so He heard his petition and granted his request,^(D) and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that Yahweh is God.^(E)

¹⁴ After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon^(F) in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate;^(G) he brought it around the Ophel,^(H) and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁵ He removed the foreign gods and the idol^(I) from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. ¹⁶ He built^[a] the altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thank offerings on it. Then he told Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ However, the people still sacrificed at the high places,^(J) but only to Yahweh their God.