Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom YHWH cast out before the children of Israel.
Y’all will know that I am YHWH, for y’all have not walked according to my statutes. Y’all have not kept my laws, but have acted according to the laws of the nations around y’all.”’”
I will cause them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusalem.
should we again break your commandments, and join ourselves with the peoples that do these abominations? Wouldn’t you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there would be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests and the people multiplied their trespassed, following all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of YHWH which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom YHWH destroyed before the children of Israel.
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom YHWH had commanded them that they should not do like them.
The nations that you are about to dispossess, they listen to those who practice sorcery and to diviners. But as for you, YHWH your God has not permitted you so to do.
You must not do so to YHWH your God, because every abomination to YHWH, which ʜᴇ hates, they have done to their gods. They even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
He did that which was evil in YHWH’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.