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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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Cov Yudas Tus Vajntxwv Manaxes
(2 Xwmtxheej Vajntxwv 33.1-20)
10Tus TSWV hais rau cov tubtxib uas yog cov cev Vajtswv lus hais tias,
11“Vajntxwv Manaxes ua kev phem kev qias loj tshaj cov neeg Kana-as ua; qhov uas nws puab tej mlom ntawd ua rau nws coj cov Yudas mus ua txhaum.
12Yog li ntawd, tus TSWV uas yog cov Yixalayees tus Vajtswv hais tias, kuv yuav tso kev puastsuaj los raug lub nroog Yeluxalees thiab cov Yudas kom txhua tus uas hnov tej xwm no yuav xav tsis thoob li.
13Kuv yuav rau txim rau lub nroog Yeluxalees ib yam li kuv ua rau lub nroog Xamalis, thiab ib yam li kuv ua rau Vajntxwv Ahaj uas kav lub tebchaws Yixalayees thiab nws cov xeebntxwv. Kuv yuav cheb lub nroog Yeluxalees thiab cov neeg uas nyob hauv kom dulug mus ib yam li lub phaj uas muab ntxuav tas thiab muab so khwb cia.
14Kuv yuav tso cov neeg uas seem ntawd tseg, muab lawv cob rau lawv tej yeebncuab kom tua yeej lawv thiab txeeb tau lawv lub tebchaws.
15Kuv yuav ua li no rau kuv haivneeg, rau qhov lawv ua txhaum rau kuv thiab ua rau kuv chim, txij thaum kuv coj lawv cov yawgkoob tawm nram tebchaws Iziv los txog niaj hnub no.”
16Manaxes tua cov neeg uas tsis muaj txim coob leej, ua rau ntshav ntws puv nkaus tej kev hauv lub nroog Yeluxalees; nws ua tej kev txhaum no ntxiv rau tej uas nws coj cov Yudas mus pe mlom thiab ua txhaum rau tus TSWV.
17Dua li lwm yam uas Manaxes ua thiab tej kev txhaum uas nws ua puavleej muab sau cia rau hauv Phau Ntawv Keebkwm ua teev cov Yudas cov Vajntxwv lub neej lawm.
18Manaxes tuag thiab luag coj nws mus faus rau hauv nws lub loog uas yog lub vaj Uxas, thiab nws tus tub Amoos ua vajntxwv hloov nws chaw.
Cov Yudas Tus Vajntxwv Amoos
(2 Xwmtxheej Vajntxwv 33.21-25)
23Amoos cov nomtswv ntxeev siab rau nws thiab muab nws tua tuag rau hauv nws lub loog.
24Tiamsis cov Yudas muab cov neeg uas tua Amoos tua tuag tas thiab tsa Amoos tus tub Yauxiyas ua vajntxwv hloov nws chaw.
25Dua li lwm yam uas Amoos ua puavleej muab sau cia rau hauv Phau Ntawv Keebkwm uas teev cov Yudas cov Vajntxwv lub neej lawm.
26Luag coj Amoos mus faus rau ntawm lub toj ntxas hauv lub vaj Uxas, thiab nws tus tub Yauxiyas ua vajntxwv hloov nws chaw.