2 Kings 21:3-5

The Voice

³ Manasseh reconstructed the high places his father, Hezekiah, had demolished. He constructed altars for Baal and crafted a sacred pole, just as Ahab the former king of Israel had done. He offered his praise to all the gods of the skies and was in service to them.

⁴ He constructed altars in the Eternal’s temple to foreign, pagan gods. This was the temple the Eternal had spoken of when He said, “My name will dwell in Jerusalem.” ⁵ He contaminated the temple by constructing altars for all the gods of the skies in both the courts in the Eternal’s temple.