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So the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but ^(C1)they paid no attention.

^(C1)Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, ^(C2)bound him with bronze chains, and led him to Babylon.

When ^(C1)he was in distress, he appeased the LORD his God and ^(C2)humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

When he prayed to Him, ^(C1)He was moved by him and heard his pleading, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh ^(C2)knew that the LORD alone is God.

Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of ^(C1)Gihon, in the valley, up to the entrance of the ^(C2)Fish Gate; and he encircled the ^(C3)Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.

He also ^(C1)removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

He set up the altar of the LORD and sacrificed ^(C1)peace offerings and thanksgiving offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

However, ^(C1)the people still sacrificed on the high places, although only to the LORD their God.