He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done.
“Because King Manasseh of Judah has committed these abominations, has done things more wicked than all that the Amorites who were before him did, and has caused Judah also to sin with his idols,
He walked in all the way in which his father walked, served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them;
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his ancestors had done.
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as all his ancestors had done.
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as Jehoiakim had done.
He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father had done.
And now you, a brood of sinners, have risen in place of your fathers, to increase the Lord’s fierce anger against Israel!
Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.