- 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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- 并使他的儿子经火,又观兆,用法术,立交鬼的和行巫术的,多行耶和华眼中看为恶的事,惹动他的怒气。
- 又在殿内立雕刻的亚舍拉像。耶和华曾对大卫和他儿子所罗门说,我在以色列众支派中所选择的耶路撒冷和这殿,必立我的名,直到永远。
- 以色列人若谨守遵行我一切所吩咐他们的,和我仆人摩西所吩咐他们的一切律法,我就不再使他们挪移离开我所赐给他们列祖之地。
- 他们却不听从。玛拿西引诱他们行恶,比耶和华在以色列人面前所灭的列国更甚。
- 耶和华藉他仆人众先知说,
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