Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did the evil in the sight of the LORD — Manasseh's wickedness includes political violence: he 'shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other' (לְמַד דָּם נָקִי הַרְבֵּה, *lemad dam naki harbeh*). The phrase 'filled Jerusalem from one end to the other' suggests systemic execution of opponents or innocents. This violence, coupled with his cultic apostasy, marks Manasseh as theologically and politically catastrophic. The reference to innocent blood will echo in later judgment theology, particularly in Jeremiah.

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