He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.
He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.
He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done.
He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.
At that time the generals of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.
He walked about among the lions; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.