33 ¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 33 ² He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom Yahweh drove out before the people of Israel. 33 ³ For he rebuilt the high places which his father Hezekiah had broken down, and erected altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 33 ⁴ And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever." 33 ⁵ And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Yahweh. 33 ⁶ And he burned his sons as an offering in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger. 33 ⁷ And the image of the idol which he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever; 33 ⁸ and I will no more remove the foot of Israel from the land which I appointed for your fathers, if only they will be careful to do all that I have commanded them, all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given through Moses." 33 ⁹ Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the people of Israel.