His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Chronicles 33:19 in context
2 Chronicles 33:16–22
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He built up the LORD’s altar, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD, the God of Israel.
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Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high places, but only to the LORD their God.
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Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts of the kings of Israel.
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His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.†
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So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.
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Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
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He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
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