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He built altars in the temple of the Lord about which the Lord had said: “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

Manasseh also built altars for all the host of heaven[a] in the two courts of the house of the Lord. Further, he immolated his sons by fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, practiced soothsaying, divination, and sorcery, and had dealings with mediums and wizards. Thus he perpetrated great evil in the sight of the Lord and aroused his anger.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 33:5 Host of heaven: the reference is to the astral divinities of the pagan world, and especially of Babylonia.