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Manaxe ua vaajntxwv kaav Yuta
(2VKk. 33:1-20)
10Yawmsaub kuas cov xwbfwb cev Vaajtswv lug kws yog nwg cov tub qhe moog has tas,
11“Vem yog Yuta tug vaajntxwv Manaxe tau ua tej kev qas vuab tsuab hab ua phem heev dua le cov Amaulai kws nyob ua nwg ntej tau ua, hab nwg tej txoov daab ntawd tau ua rua cov Yuta ua txhum,
12vem le nuav Yawmsaub kws yog cov Yixayee tug Vaajtswv has le nuav tas, ‘Kuv saamswm yuav coj kev puam tsuaj luj kawg le lug rua Yeluxalee hab Yuta mas txhua tug kws nov yuav rhab qhov ntsej.
13Kuv yuav muab txuj hlua kws ntsuag lub nroog Xamali lawm lug hab swv lub qai hlau kws ntsuag Ahaj caaj ceg qhov kws ntseg lug dai ntsuag lub nroog Yeluxalee. Hab kuv yuav ntxuav Yeluxalee yaam nkaus le ntxuav lub phaaj hab muab khwb.
14Kuv yuav muab kuv qub txeeg qub teg kws tseed tshuav laim pov tseg hab muab puab rua huv puab cov yeeb ncuab txhais teg. Puab yuav raug luas txeeb hab lws taag nrho huvsw
15vem puab tau ua tej kws kuv pum tas phem kawg le hab ua rua kuv npau tawg txwj nub kws puab tej laug tawm huv Iyi tebchaws lug txug naj nub nwgnuav.’ ”
16Ntau dua le hov Manaxe tseed muab tej tuabneeg kws tsw txhum tua pov tseg coob kawg le rua huv Yeluxalee ntshaav lab vog puv nkaus rua txhua qhov. Nuav yog tej kev txhum kws luj tshaaj qhov kws nwg coj cov Yuta ua txhum puab txhad ua tej kws Yawmsaub pum tas phem kawg le.
17Lwm yaam num kws Manaxe ua hab txhua yaam kws nwg ua hab tej kev txhum kws nwg ua mas tub muab sau ca rua huv phoo ntawv kws has txug Yuta tej vaajntxwv le keeb kwm.
18Manaxe txawm tuag moog nrug nwg tej laug nyob. Puab muab nwg log rua huv lub vaaj kws nyob ntawm nwg lub tsev yog lub vaaj Usxa, mas nwg tug tub Amoo sawv nwg chaw ua vaajntxwv kaav.
Amoo ua vaajntxwv kaav Yuta
(2VKk. 33:21-25)
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Manasseh Reigns in Judah
1Manasseh ⚓was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
2And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, ⚓according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
3For he rebuilt the high places ⚓which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; he raised up altars for Baal, and made a wooden image, ⚓as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he ⚓worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
4⚓He also built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, ⚓“In Jerusalem I will put My name.”
5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the ⚓two courts of the house of the Lord.
6⚓Also he made his son pass through the fire, practiced ⚓soothsaying, used witchcraft, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger.
7He even set a carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, ⚓“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
8⚓and I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers—only if they are careful to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
9But they paid no attention, and Manasseh ⚓seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
10And the Lord spoke ⚓by His servants the prophets, saying,
11⚓“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations (⚓he has acted more wickedly than all the ⚓Amorites who were before him, and ⚓has also made Judah sin with his idols),
12therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, both ⚓his ears will tingle.
13And I will stretch over Jerusalem ⚓the measuring line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab; ⚓I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14So I will forsake the ⚓remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become victims of plunder to all their enemies,
15because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”
16⚓Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing evil in the sight of the Lord.
17Now ⚓the rest of the acts of ⚓Manasseh—all that he did, and the sin that he committed—are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
18So ⚓Manasseh rested with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Then his son Amon reigned in his place.
Amon’s Reign and Death
19⚓Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, ⚓as his father Manasseh had done.
21So he walked in all the ways that his father had walked; and he served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.
22He ⚓forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.
23⚓Then the servants of Amon ⚓conspired against him, and killed the king in his own house.
24But the people of the land ⚓executed all those who had conspired against King Amon. Then the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
25Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. Then Josiah his son reigned in his place.