2 He did what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, following the detestable practices of the nations that Jehovah had driven out from before the people of Israel.+ 3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hez·e·kiʹah had torn down,+ he set up altars to the Baʹals and made sacred poles,* and he bowed down to all the army of the heavens and served them.+ 4 He also built altars in the house of Jehovah,+ about which Jehovah had said: “In Jerusalem my name will be forever.”+ 5 And he built altars to all the army of the heavens in two courtyards of the house of Jehovah.+ 6 And he made his own sons pass through the fire+ in the Valley of the Son of Hinʹnom;+ he practiced magic,+ used divination, practiced sorcery, and appointed spirit mediums and fortune-tellers.+ He did on a grand scale what was bad in Jehovah’s eyes, to offend him.