2 Kings 21:15

so that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, so that you would sin against Yahweh your God.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

“I will give them over to be an example of terror among all the kingdoms of the earth because of Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, for what he did in Jerusalem.

“Yet you have not listened to Me,” declares Yahweh, “in order that you might provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands to your own evil demise.