Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than did the nations whom YHWH destroyed before the children of Israel.
For the statutes of Omri and all the works of Ahab’s house are observed. Y’all walk in their counsels, that I may bring you to ruin, and your inhabitants to derision. Y’all will bear the reproach of the nations.”
Notwithstanding, YHWH didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in YHWH’s sight.
“‘I brought y’all into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with y’all, but I gave them into y’all’s hand. Y’all possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before y’all.
I will not any more remove the feet of the Israelites from the land which I have appointed for y’all’s ancestors, if only they will observe and do all that I have commanded them, concerning all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
“Therefore Lord YHWH says: ‘Because y’all are more insubordinate than the nations around y’all, and have not walked in my statutes, or kept my ordinances, or even followed the ordinances of the nations around y’all,