He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

and followed the practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before them, as well as the practices that the kings of Israel had introduced.

At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that aroused the Lord’s anger.

They rejected his decrees and the covenant he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

Nevertheless, each national group made its own gods in the several towns where they settled, and set them up in the shrines the people of Samaria had made at the high places.

They worshiped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought.

Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar?

“It is true, Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.