^33 (A)They shall not live in your land, lest they make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(B)it will surely be a snare to you.”

³ Indeed, ^(A)he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and ^(B)he erected altars for Baal and made an ^[a]Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and ^(C)worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. ^4 (D)And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “^(E)In Jerusalem I will put My name.” ⁵ Indeed, he built altars for ^(F)all the host of heaven in ^(G)the two courts of the house of Yahweh. ^6 (H)He even made his son pass through the fire, ^(I)practiced soothsaying and interpreted omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much that was evil in the sight of Yahweh provoking Him to anger. ⁷ Then ^(J)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, “^(K)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 ^(L)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 ^(M)led them astray in order to do more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the sons of Israel.

Yahweh Brings Calamity on Israel

¹⁰ Then Yahweh spoke by the hand of His slaves the prophets, saying, ¹¹ “^(N)Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations—^(O)he has done evil more than all the Amorites did who were before him—and ^(P)has also made Judah sin ^(Q)with his idols, ¹² therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, ^(R)both his ears will tingle. ^13 (S)And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the level of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish—he wipes it and turns it upside down. ¹⁴ And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies; ¹⁵ because they have done what is evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’”