2 Chronicles 33:10-20

Names of God Bible

¹⁰ When Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and his people, they wouldn’t even pay attention. ¹¹ So Yahweh made the army commanders of the king of Assyria invade Judah. They took Manasseh captive, put a hook in his nose, put him in bronze shackles, and brought him to Babylon.

¹² When he experienced this distress, he begged Yahweh his Elohim to be kind and humbled himself in front of the Elohim of his ancestors. ¹³ He prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh accepted his prayer and listened to his request. Yahweh brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh is Elohim.

¹⁴ After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon Spring in the valley to the entrance of Fish Gate. He made the wall go around the Ophel, and he built it very high. He put army commanders in every fortified city in Judah.

¹⁵ Manasseh got rid of the foreign gods and the idol in Yahweh’s temple. He got rid of the altars he had built in the temple on Yahweh’s mountain and in Jerusalem. ¹⁶ He built Yahweh’s altar and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it. And he told Judah to serve Yahweh Elohim of Israel. ¹⁷ The people continued to sacrifice at the illegal places of worship, but they sacrificed only to Yahweh their Elohim.

¹⁸ Everything else about Manasseh—including his prayer to his Elohim and the words that the seers^[a] spoke to him in the name of Yahweh Elohim of Israel—are in the records of the kings of Israel. ¹⁹ His prayer and how Elohim accepted it are written in the records of Hozai. The things he did before he humbled himself are also written there. This includes all his sins and unfaithfulness and the places where he built illegal worship sites and set up idols and poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah.

²⁰ Manasseh lay down in death with his ancestors. They buried him in his own palace. His son Amon succeeded him as king.