²⁰ And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(A)as Manasseh his father had done.

^51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^(C)As your fathers did, so do you.

^32 (A)Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

²² And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images ^(A)that Manasseh his father had made, and served them. ²³ And he did not humble himself before the Lord, ^(B)as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.

^11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things ^(B)more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, ^(C)and has made Judah also to sin ^(D)with his idols,

² And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, ^(A)according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. ³ For he rebuilt the high places ^(B)that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he erected altars for Baal and made ^(C)an Asherah, ^(D)as Ahab king of Israel had done, ^(E)and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. ^4 (F)And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ^(G)“In Jerusalem will I put my name.” ⁵ And he built altars ^(H)for all the host of heaven in ^(I)the two courts of the house of the Lord. ^6 (J)And he burned his son as an offering^[a] and ^(K)used fortune-telling and ^(L)omens and dealt ^(M)with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. ⁷ And the carved image of ^(N)Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the Lord said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, ^(O)and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

¹⁴ And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!