2 Chronicles 33:11-19

Legacy Standard Bible

^11 (A)Therefore Yahweh brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with ^[a]hooks, ^(B)bound him with bronze chains, and took him to Babylon. ¹² And when ^(C)he was in distress, he entreated Yahweh his God and ^(D)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ Then he prayed to Him, and ^(E)He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and returned him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ^(F)knew that Yahweh was God.

¹⁴ Afterwards, he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of ^(G)Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the ^(H)Fish Gate; and he encircled the ^(I)Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah. ¹⁵ He also ^(J)removed the foreign gods and the ^[b]idol from the house of Yahweh, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of Yahweh and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. ¹⁶ And he set up the altar of Yahweh and sacrificed ^(K)peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he said for Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ Nevertheless ^(L)the people still sacrificed in the high places, although only to Yahweh their God.

¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, even ^(M)his prayer to his God, and the words of ^(N)the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are among the chronicles of the kings of ^(O)Israel. ¹⁹ His prayer also and ^(P)how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and ^(Q)the sites on which he built high places and erected the ^[c]Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the chronicles of the ^[d]Hozai.