8 aand I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers—only if they are careful to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.”
9 So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Manasseh Restored After Repentance
10 And the Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not1 listen.
11 aTherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with hooks, bbound him with bronze fetters, and carried him off to Babylon.
12 Now when he was in affliction, he implored the Lord his God, and ahumbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
13 and prayed to Him; and He areceived his entreaty, heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh bknew that the Lord was God.
14 After this he built a wall outside the City of David on the west side of aGihon, in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate; and it benclosed Ophel, and he raised it to a very great height. Then he put military captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
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