The King’s Idolatries Rebuked

¹⁰ Now the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying, ¹¹ “^(A)Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, ^(B)having done more evil than all that the Amorites did who were before him, and ^(C)has also misled Judah into sin ^(D)with his idols, ¹² therefore this is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such a disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears about it, ^(E)both of his ears will ring. ^13 (F)I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean just as one wipes a bowl, wiping it and turning it upside down. ¹⁴ And I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoils to all their enemies, ¹⁵ because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.’”

²⁴ Moreover, Josiah removed ^(A)the mediums, the spiritists, the ^[a](B)household idols, ^(C)the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, ^(D)so that he might ^[b]fulfill the words of the Law which were written ^(E)in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. ²⁵ Before him there was no king ^(F)like him who turned to the Lord with all his heart, all his soul, and all his might, in conformity to all the Law of Moses; nor did any like him arise after him.

²⁶ Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath with which His anger burned against Judah, ^(G)because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. ²⁷ And the Lord said, “I will also remove Judah from My sight, ^(H)just as I have removed Israel. And ^(I)I will reject this city which I have chosen, Jerusalem, and the ^[c]temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there!’”