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Texts -- 2 Chronicles 33:1-6 (NET)

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Manasseh’s Reign
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem . 33:2 He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites . 33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed ; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles . He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them. 33:4 He built altars in the Lord’s temple , about which the Lord had said , “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.” 33:5 In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky . 33:6 He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination , omen reading , and sorcery . He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.

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