And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more.
And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
And his prayer, and how God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites on which he built high places and set up the Asherim and the images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.
while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Were they ashamed when they committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed; they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.
Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
In the time of his distress he became yet more faithless to the Lord—this same King Ahaz.
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