⁹ But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil^(A) than the nations^(B) the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

⁷ “Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: You have been more unruly than the nations around you and have not followed my decrees or kept my laws. You have not even^[a] conformed to the standards of the nations around you.^(A)