²³ He didn't humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

¹² When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

¹⁹ His prayer also, and how [God] was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

²² In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against Yahweh, this same king Ahaz.

¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

²⁶ yet they didn't listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

¹² Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.

¹³ But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.