^{9 Ref} And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.

^{10 Ref} And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.

^{11 Ref} So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.

^{12 Ref} And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,

^{13 Ref} And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.