⁷ Then ^(A)he put the graven image of Asherah, which he had made, in the house of which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, “^(B)In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. ⁸ And I ^(C)will not make the foot of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.” ⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh ^(D)led them astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.