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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.
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Manaxe ua vajntxwv kav Yuda
(2VKk. 33:1-20)
10Yawmsaub kom cov xibhwb cev Vajtswv lus uas yog nws cov tub qhe mus hais tias,
11“Vim yog Yuda tus vajntxwv Manaxe tau ua tej kev qias vuab tsuab thiab ua phem heev dua li cov Amaulai uas nyob ua nws ntej tau ua, thiab nws tej dab mlom ntawd tau ua rau cov Yuda ua txhaum,
12vim li no Yawmsaub uas yog cov Yixayee tus Vajtswv hais li no tias, ‘Kuv tabtom yuav coj kev puam tsuaj loj kawg li los rau Yeluxalees thiab Yuda mas txhua tus uas hnov yuav rhiab pob ntseg.
13Kuv yuav muab txoj hlua uas ntsuas lub nroog Xamali lawm los thiab siv lub qe hlau uas ntsuas Ahaj caj ces qhov uas ntseg los dai ntsuas lub nroog Yeluxalees. Thiab kuv yuav ntxuav Yeluxalees yam nkaus li ntxuav lub phaj thiab muab khwb.
14Kuv yuav muab kuv qub txeeg qub teg uas tseem tshuav laim pov tseg thiab muab lawv rau hauv lawv cov yeeb ncuab txhais tes. Lawv yuav raug luag txeeb thiab lws tag nrho huvsi
15vim lawv tau ua tej uas kuv pom tias phem kawg li thiab ua rau kuv npau taws txij hnub uas lawv tej poj koob yawm txwv tawm hauv Iyi tebchaws los txog niaj hnub nimno.’ ”
16Ntau dua li ntawd Manaxe tseem muab tej neeg uas tsis txhaum tua pov tseg coob kawg li rau hauv Yeluxalees ntshav liab vog puv nkaus rau txhua qhov. No yog tej kev txhaum uas loj tshaj qhov uas nws coj cov Yuda ua txhaum lawv thiaj ua tej uas Yawmsaub pom tias phem kawg li.
17Lwm yam haujlwm uas Manaxe ua thiab txhua yam uas nws ua thiab tej kev txhaum uas nws ua mas twb muab sau cia rau hauv phau ntawv uas hais txog Yuda tej vajntxwv li keeb kwm.
18Manaxe txawm tuag mus nrog nws tej poj koob yawm txwv nyob. Lawv muab nws log rau hauv lub vaj uas nyob ntawm nws lub tsev yog lub vaj Usxa, mas nws tus tub Asmoo sawv nws chaw ua vajntxwv kav.
Asmoo ua vajntxwv kav Yuda
(2VKk. 33:21-25)