 They did not hearken. The people didn't. Manasseh didn't. He seduced them to do more evil than the nations even did whom the Lord destroyed from before the children of Israel. And the Lord spoke to his servants, the prophets, because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these abominations doing more wickedly than all of the Amorites did who were before him and he made Judah to descend. Then he says,