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2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominable acts of the nations which the Lord had removed from before Israel.
3 He restored and rebuilt the high places which his father Ezekias had demolished; and erected an altar to Baal; and made bowers as Achab king of Israel had done; and worshipped the whole host of heaven and served them.
4 He even built an altar in the house of the Lord. Though the Lord had said, In Jerusalem I will put my name;
5 yet he built an altar to the whole host of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord;
6 and made his sons pass through fire, and consulted omens, and auguries, and built temples, and multiplied diviners, to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
7 Nay, he placed the graven image of the bower in the very house, concerning which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever,
8 and I will no more remove the foot of Israel, from the land which I gave their fathers, provided they will keep all that I have commanded, according to the command which my servant Moses commanded them.
9 Now when they hearkened not, and Manasses led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, more than those nations, which the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites;
10 then by the ministry of his servants the1 prophets, the Lord spoke saying,
11 Because Manasses the king of Juda hath committed all these abominations; these evils surpassing all that the Amorites did before him, and hath caused Juda also to sin by their idols;