2 Chronicles 33:12-25 ▼

12 And when he was in affliction, he implored before the face of YHWH his God, and he humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

13 and he prayed to Him. And He received entreaty of him, and He heard his supplication and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And Manasseh knew that YHWH, He is God.

14 And after this he built an oiter wall for the City of David on the west of Gihon in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate, and it enclosed Ophel and exceedingly heightened it, and he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 And he turned aside the gods of the stranger and the idol from the house of YHWH, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of YHWH and in Jerusalem, and he cast them outside of the city.

16 And he established the altar of YHWH, and sacrificed on it sacrifices of peace offerings and thank offerings, and he told Judah to serve YHWH, God of Israel.

17 But still the people sacrificed on the high places—only to YHWH their God.

18 And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers speaking to him in the name of YHWH, God of Israel, behold, are in the Words of the Kings of Israel.

19 And his prayer and entreaty to Him, and all his sin and trespass, and the places where he built in them high places and set up the Asherah poles and the carved images before he was humbled, indeed they are written among the Words of Hozai.

20 And Manasseh rested with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And Amon his son reigned in his place.

21 Amon was a son of twenty-two years in his reigning, and two years he reigned in Jerusalem.

22 And he did evil in the eyes of YHWH, as Manasseh his father had done. And Amon sacrificed to all the carved images that Manasseh his father had made, and he served them.

23 And he did not humble himself before YHWH as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, for Amon himself had multiplied guilt.

24 And his servants conspired against him and killed him in his own house.

25 And the people of the land struck all those conspiring against King Amon, and the people of the land made king Josiah his son in his place.