Church and State: Manasseh, in Subverting, and Afterward Restoring, the True Religion

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. …

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city. …