Idolatry: Adopted by the Wicked Kings

He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals. …

For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.