He fostered foreign cults. The Prayer of Manasses, one of the pseudepigrapha, placed in the APOCRYPHA in the Authorized Version, is given as hispenitential prayer.
He was 12 years old when he began his rule. He did evil and used enchantments and wizards. He ruled for 55 years (II Kings 21:1).
FILE: !(Adam's gg son 44) See Bible Dict. page 728 #2; 2 Kgs. 20:21; 1Chr. 3:13; 2 Chr. 32:33; Matt. 1:10; See W. Cleon Skousen's "The Fourth ThousandYears"; Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright 1994, ColumbiaUniversity Press.