2 Kings 21:3 BBE

¹  Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.

²  He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

³  He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.

⁴  And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

⁵  And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.