Good King Manasseh
The tale of Hezekiah turns to
the tale of Manasseh, and the tale begins to wag the God, for, according to the
Baalist narrator, though Manasseh did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, the
God of his father Hezekiah and his prophet
Isaiah, he did what was good in the sight of the gods of the land, causing the
high places his father had torn down to be restored, building altars for Baal and
for the Host of Heaven even in the temple. He observed the seasons and their
wonders — summer and winter, seed-time and. All
this was wicked in the sight of Yahweh, according to his prophets said, but Manasseh
did not listen to them, because the gods of the land were good to him and to
his people: they had grain and wine, olives and figs, milk and honey, fresh
flowing water. Their stomachs were full, their heads were easy and their hearts
were light all the 55 years of Manasseh’s rule.
Who was twenty-two
years old when he began to rule and who served the gods his father served, and
they were good to him as well. When he died after only two years of rule, one
of the prophets of Yahweh claimed it was because he had forsaken Him, but it
was actually because some of his servants conspired against and assassinated him;
and the people of the land killed them, because of what they had done to their
king Amon.
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