Manasseh slept with his ancestors, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and his son Amon succeeded him — despite his comprehensive wickedness, Manasseh receives honorable burial 'in the garden of his own house' (בְגַנּוֹ־בַיִת, *be-gano-bayit*), not in the royal necropolis of David. The alternative burial location suggests either lack of temple access due to his leprosy (if he experienced such) or ritual impurity from his blood-shedding. His son Amon succeeds him, continuing the Davidic line despite the spiritual catastrophe of Manasseh's reign.

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