II Chronicles 33 The Captivity of Manasseh, His Prayer and Death

 II Chronicles 33

The Captivity of Manasseh, His Prayer and Death

11 Therefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh between the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

12 And he was in anguish, and prayed earnestly to the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

13 And he prayed to him, and God was gracious to him, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

14 And after this he built a wall outside the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entrance of the Fish Gate, and round about, as far as Ophel, and raised it very high: He also placed valiant officers in all the fortified cities of Judah. ​​

15 He removed the foreign gods and the idols from the house of the Lord, as well as all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city. 

16 He repaired the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings. He commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. 

17 But the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God. 

18 The rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are among the acts of the kings of Israel. 

19 And his prayer, and how God was relenting toward him, and all his sin and his transgression, and the places where he built high places, and set up Asherah poles and carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

20 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.