- He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger.
- He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and to his son Solomon, "In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever.
- I will not again make the feet of the Israelites wander from the land I gave their forefathers, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them and will keep the whole Law that my servant Moses gave them."
- But the people did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- The LORD said through his servants the prophets:
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- 並使他的兒子經火、又觀兆、用法術、立交鬼的、和行巫術的、多行耶和華眼中看為惡的事、惹動他的怒氣.
- 又在殿內立雕刻的亞舍拉像.耶和華曾對大衛和他兒子所羅門說、我在以色列眾支派中所選擇的耶路撒冷、和這殿、必立我的名、直到永遠。
- 以色列人若謹守遵行我一切所吩咐他們的、和我僕人摩西所吩咐他們的一切律法、我就不再使他們挪移、離開我所賜給他們列祖之地。
- 他們卻不聽從.瑪拿西引誘他們行惡、比耶和華在以色列人面前所滅的列國更甚。
- 耶和華藉他僕人眾先知說、
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