Bible in Basic English
"Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem."
— 2 Chronicles 33:1, Bible in Basic English
“Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. ”
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.
For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;
And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.