2 Chronicles 33:10-20

Christian Standard Bible

Manasseh’s Repentance

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they didn’t listen.^{(A) 11} So he brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.^{(B) 12} When he was in distress, he sought the favor of the Lord his God and earnestly humbled himself^(C) before the God of his ancestors. ¹³ He prayed to him, and the Lord was receptive to his prayer. He granted his request^(D) and brought him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. So Manasseh came to know that the Lord is God.^(E)

¹⁴ After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon^(F) in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate;^(G) he brought it around Ophel,^(H) and he heightened it considerably. He also placed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

¹⁵ He removed the foreign gods and the idol^(I) from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. ¹⁶ He built^[a] the altar of the Lord and offered fellowship and thanksgiving sacrifices on it. Then he told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁷ However, the people still sacrificed at the high places,^(J) but only to the Lord their God.

Manasseh’s Death

¹⁸ The rest of the events^(K) of Manasseh’s reign, along with his prayer^(L) to his God and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are written in the Events of Israel’s Kings. ¹⁹ His prayer and how God was receptive to his prayer, and all his sin and unfaithfulness and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the Events of Hozai. ²⁰ Manasseh rested with his ancestors, and he was buried in his own house. His son Amon became king in his place.