2 Kings 21:1-9

11Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. 22He did evil in the sight of the Lord, 3according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the sons of Israel. 3For 4he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and 5he erected altars for Baal and made an 6Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and 7worshiped all the host of heaven and served them. 48He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “9In Jerusalem I will put My name.” 5For he built altars for 10all the host of heaven in 11the two courts of the house of the Lord. 612He made his son pass through the fire, 13practiced witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger. 7Then 14he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “15In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever. 8And I 16will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.” 9But they did not listen, and Manasseh 17seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.