But Samaria did not commit even half your sins. You have multiplied your detestable practices beyond theirs and made your sisters appear righteous by all the detestable acts you have committed.
All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods in order to anger me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.”
Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon: ‘I will establish my name for ever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practise every detestable act, which the Lord hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
‘Since King Manasseh of Judah has committed all these detestable acts #– #worse evil than the Amorites who preceded him had done #– #and by means of his idols has also caused Judah to sin,
So I will choose their punishment, and I will bring on them what they dread because I called and no one answered; I spoke and they did not listen; they did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.
so that you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose ordinances you have not practised. Instead, you have acted according to the ordinances of the nations around you.” ’
You are to say, “This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood within her walls so that her time of judgement has come and who makes idols for herself so that she is defiled!