Because Manasseh the king of Judah has done these disgusting things, doing more wickedly than all that the Amorites did before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,
And also Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood, till he has filled Jerusalem from mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the eyes of Jehovah.
And he set a graven image of the Asherah he had made in the house of which Jehovah had said to David and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; and My wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.
Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people were continually acting unfaithfully according to all the disgusting things of the nations; and they defiled the house of Jehovah that He had sanctified in Jerusalem.
I also will choose their wanton dealings; and I will bring their fears to them; because I called, and not one answered; I spoke, and they did not hear. But they did the evil in My eyes, and chose that in which I had no pleasure.
and you shall know that I am Jehovah in whose statutes you have not walked, and My judgments you have not done; yea, as the judgments of the nations who are round about you, you have done.
And Samaria has not sinned as much as half your sins, but you have multiplied your disgusting things more than they, and have justified your sisters in all your disgusting things which you have done.
And you shall say, So says the Lord Jehovah: The city pours out blood in her midst, that her time may come. And she makes idols against herself, to defile herself.
You shall not do so to Jehovah your God; for every disgusting thing to Jehovah, which He detests, they have done to their gods. For they have even burned their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.