2 Chronicles 33:4
2 Chronicles 33:1-6 The Message (MSG)
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king. He ruled for fifty-five years in Jerusalem. In GOD’s opinion he was a bad king—an evil king. He reintroduced all the moral rot and spiritual corruption that had been scoured from the country when GOD dispossessed the pagan nations in favor of the children of Israel. He rebuilt the sex-and-religion shrines that his father Hezekiah had torn down, he built altars and phallic images for the sex god Baal and the sex goddess Asherah and worshiped the cosmic powers, taking orders from the constellations. He built shrines to the cosmic powers and placed them in both courtyards of The Temple of GOD, the very Jerusalem Temple dedicated exclusively by GOD’s decree to GOD’s Name (“in Jerusalem I place my Name”). He burned his own sons in a sacrificial rite in the Valley of Ben Hinnom. He practiced witchcraft and fortunetelling. He held séances and consulted spirits from the underworld. Much evil—in GOD’s view a career in evil. And GOD was angry.
2 Chronicles 33:4 King James Version (KJV)
Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:4 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
2 Chronicles 33:4 New Century Version (NCV)
The LORD had said about the Temple, “I will be worshiped in Jerusalem forever,” but Manasseh built altars in the Temple of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 33:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
2 Chronicles 33:4 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, ‘My Name will remain in Jerusalem for ever.’
2 Chronicles 33:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
He also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.”
2 Chronicles 33:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
He built [pagan] altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”