⁷ He took the carved Asherah pole^(A) he had made and put it in the temple,^(B) of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name^(C) forever. ⁸ I will not again^(D) make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses^(E) gave them.” ⁹ But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil^(F) than the nations^(G) the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.