The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: would not hearken.
CH2 33:11 Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host
of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound
him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
CH2 33:12 And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God,
and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
CH2 33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard
his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
CH2 33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on
the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the
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