CLV(i)
1 A son of twelve years is Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he has reigned in Jerusalem;"
2 and he does the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, like the abominations of the nations that Yahweh dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,
3 and he turns and builds the high places that Hezekiah his father has broken down, and raises altars for Baalim, and makes shrines, and bows himself to all the host of the heavens, and serves them.
4 And he has built altars in the house of Yahweh of which Yahweh had said, `In Jerusalem is My name to the eon..
5 And he builds altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
6 And he has caused his sons to pass over through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he has multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger.
7 And he places the graven image of the idol that he made in the house of Elohim, of which Elohim said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name to the eon,
8 and I add not to turn aside the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers, only, if they watch to do all that I have commanded them--to all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses..
9 And Manasseh makes Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Yahweh destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
10 And Yahweh speaks unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,