2 Chronicles 33:3-13

3For 1he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had torn down; 2he also set up altars for the Baals and made 3Asherim, and he worshiped all the heavenly 4lights and served them. 45He built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord had said, “My name shall be 6in Jerusalem forever.” 5He built altars for all the heavenly 7lights in 8the two courtyards of the house of the Lord. 69He also made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery, and 10dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger. 7Then he put 11the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “12In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; 8and I will not remove the foot of Israel again from the land 13which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will take care to do everything that I have commanded them according to all the Law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses.” 9So Manasseh encouraged Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.

10So the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but 14they paid no attention. 1115Therefore the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, 16bound him with bronze chains, and led him to Babylon. 12When 17he was in distress, he appeased the Lord his God and 18humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13When he prayed to Him, 19He was moved by him and heard his pleading, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh 20knew that the Lord alone is God.