Amon's imitation of his father Manasseh, serving carved images, and doing evil in the sight of the Lord indicates a regression to the early spiritual corruption of Manasseh's reign. The specificity that he did what was displeasing establishes his actions as consciously rejecting proper worship. The imitation of Manasseh's early evil indicates that Amon deliberately chose apostasy and rejected the example of Manasseh's repentance. The evaluation of his actions as displeasing to the Lord establishes that this was not thoughtless behavior but conscious violation. The regression to earlier patterns of evil indicates that a single generation of reformation had not been sufficient to establish lasting change.

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