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In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.

2 Chronicles 34

But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.

So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.

And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.

However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.

And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.

And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.