He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Pekahiah&#8217;s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Pekah&#8217;s reign, including all his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Jotham&#8217;s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" />

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> He did not do what pleased the <sc>Lordsc> his God, in contrast to his ancestor David.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Ahaz&#8217;s reign, including his accomplishments, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" />

they observed the practices<n id="1" /> of the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had driven out from before Israel, and followed the example of the kings of Israel.<n id="2" />

They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the <sc>Lordsc> angry.<n id="1" />

They passed their sons and daughters through the fire,<n id="1" /> and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the <sc>Lordsc> and made him angry.<n id="2" />p>

Judah also failed to keep the commandments of the <sc>Lordsc> their God; they followed Israel&#8217;s example.<n id="1" />

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak,<n id="1" /> and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech,<n id="2" /> the gods of Sepharvaim.

You must carefully obey at all times the rules, regulations, law, and commandments he wrote down for you. You must not worship other gods.

Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands.<n id="1" /> Do you really think you will be rescued?<n id="2" />

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">Certainly you must have heard!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Long ago I worked it out,p> <p class="poetry">In ancient times I planned<n id="3" /> it;p> <p class="poetry">and now I am bringing it to pass.p> <p class="poetry">The plan is this:p> <p class="poetry">Fortified cities will crashp> <p class="poetry">into heaps of ruins.<n id="4" />p>

&#8220;Please, <sc>Lordsc>. Remember how I have served you<n id="1" /> faithfully and with wholehearted devotion,<n id="2" /> and how I have carried out your will.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Then Hezekiah wept bitterly.<n id="4" />p>

But they did not obey,<n id="1" /> and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had destroyed from before the Israelites.p>

because they have done evil in my sight<n id="1" /> and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The rest of the events of Manasseh&#8217;s reign and all his accomplishments, as well as the sinful acts he committed, are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The rest of Amon&#8217;s accomplishments are recorded in the scroll called the Annals of the Kings of Judah.<n id="1" />