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He built altars to honor false gods in the Lord’s Temple. (This is the place the Lord was talking about when he said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”) Manasseh built altars for the stars of heaven in the two courtyards of the Lord’s Temple. He sacrificed his own son and burned him on the altar.[a] He used different ways of trying to know the future. He visited mediums and wizards.

Manasseh did more and more things that the Lord saw as evil, which made the Lord angry.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 21:6 sacrificed … on the altar Literally, “made his son pass through the fire.”

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