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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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Yu^ndaa Nyei Hungh, Maa^natv^se

(Beiv mangc 2 Zunh Doic Douh 33:1-20)

¹Maa^natv^se faaux weic zoux hungh wuov zanc, ninh duqv ziepc nyeic hnyangx. Ninh yiem Ye^lu^saa^lem gunv hmz ziepc hmz hnyangx. Ninh nyei maa nyei mbuox heuc Hepv^si^mbaa. ²Ziux Ziouv mangc ninh zoux waaic sic. Ninh ei jienv Ziouv zunc cuotv I^saa^laa^en Mienh nyei wuov ndaangc maengx wuov deix fingx-fingx mienh zoux gamh nziev haic nyei sic.⚓ ³Ninh aengx ceix jiez dongh ninh nyei die, He^se^ki^yaa, baaic waaic wuov deix yiem hlang zaangc zienh nyei dorngx. Ninh aengx weic ⟨Mbaa^an zienh⟩ ceix ziec-dorngh, yaac zoux ⟨Mbaa^an zienh⟩ zienh nyeiz nyei fangx, hnangv I^saa^laa^en nyei hungh, Aa^hapc, nor. Ninh baaix yaac zaangc lungh zaangc nyei nyungc-nyungc.⚓ ⁴Ninh yiem zaangc Ziouv nyei biauv ceix ziec-dorngh, se yiem Ziouv gorngv, “Yie oix liepc yie nyei Mengh yiem Ye^lu^saa^lem,”⚓ wuov norm dorngx. ⁵Ninh yiem zaangc Ziouv nyei biauv i norm laatc gu'nyuoz nyei dorngx weic lungh zaangc nyei nyungc-nyungc ceix ziec-dorngh. ⁶Ninh zorqv ninh ganh nyei dorn buov ziec,⚓ yaac zoux faatv, mangc maengc, gaanv hei, mbouv guaax. Ziux Ziouv mangc ninh zoux waaic sic camv haic, cuoqv Ziouv qiex jiez haic.
⁷Ninh zorqv ninh zuqc daaih wuov norm ⟨Aa^se^laa⟩ zienh nyeiz nyei fangx an jienv zaangc Ziouv nyei biauv gu'nyuoz. Se naaiv norm biauv Ziouv gorngv mbuox Ndaawitv caux ninh nyei dorn, Saa^lo^morn, “Se naaiv norm biauv caux Ye^lu^saa^lem Zingh yie yiem fingx-fingx I^saa^laa^en Mienh mbu'ndongx ginv cuotv daaih liepc yie ganh nyei Mengh weic yietc liuz.⚓ ⁸Se gorngv I^saa^laa^en Mienh faix fim ei jienv yie hatc nyei yietc zungv waac zoux yaac ei jienv yie nyei bou, Mose, jiu bun ninh mbuo nyei yietc zungv leiz-latc, yie zungv maiv bun ninh mbuo zuqc zunc cuotv.”⚓ ⁹Mv baac ninh mbuo maiv muangx. Maa^natv^se baeng ninh mbuo zoux waaic sic gauh camv Ziouv yiem I^saa^laa^en Mienh nyei wuov ndaangc maengx mietc wuov deix fingx-fingx mienh.
¹⁰Ziouv longc ninh nyei bou, douc waac mienh, gorngv, ¹¹“Yu^ndaa nyei hungh, Maa^natv^se, zoux naaiv deix gamh nziev haic, youx haic nyei sic. Ninh zoux gauh waaic yiem ndaangc ninh wuov deix Aa^mo^lai Mienh. Ninh longc ninh nyei miuc-fangx bun Yu^ndaa Mienh baamz zuiz camv haic. ¹²Weic naaiv, Ziouv, I^saa^laa^en Mienh nyei Tin-Hungh, gorngv, ‘Yie oix bun Ye^lu^saa^lem caux Yu^ndaa zuqc domh zeqc naanc. Haaix dauh haiz naaiv deix sic, m'normh ziouc nqingx nzengc wuov. ¹³Yie oix dingc Ye^lu^saa^lem nyei zuiz hnangv yie dingc Saa^maa^lie nyei zuiz nor, yaac hnangv yie dingc Aa^hapc nyei zeiv-fun nyei zuiz.⚓ Yie oix sortv Ye^lu^saa^lem hnangv mienh sortv yienv nor. Sortv liuz aengx nqopv jienv. ¹⁴Yie oix guangc yie zengc njiec nyei mienh,⚓ zorqv ninh mbuo jiu bun ninh mbuo nyei win-wangv. Ninh mbuo ziouc zuqc win-wangv luv ninh mbuo, caangv ninh mbuo, ¹⁵weic zuqc ei yie mangc, ninh mbuo zoux waaic sic yiem ninh mbuo nyei ong-taaix cuotv I^yipv taux ih hnoi.’+”
¹⁶Maiv daan mbuoqc naaiv. Maa^natv^se daix kuv mienh, bun nziaamv liouc cuotv camv, zungv buangv Ye^lu^saa^lem yiem naaiv bung mingh taux wuov bung. Cuotv liuz naaiv, ninh bun Yu^ndaa Mienh baamz zuiz, ziux Ziouv mangc ninh mbuo ziouc zoux waaic sic.
¹⁷Maa^natv^se gunv nyei ziangh hoc zoux liuz zengc njiec nyei sic, caux ninh zoux nyei yietc zungv, caux ninh baamz nyei zuiz, fiev jienv Yu^ndaa hungh nyei hungh douh daan. ¹⁸Maa^natv^se guei seix mi'aqv,⚓ yaac zangx jienv yiem ninh nyei hungh dinc nyei huingx, se Utc^saa nyei huingx. Ninh nyei dorn, Aamon, nzipc jienv ninh zoux hungh.

Yu^ndaa Nyei Hungh, Aamon

(Beiv mangc 2 Zunh Doic Douh 33:21-25)

¹⁹Aamon faaux weic zoux hungh wuov zanc, ninh nyei hnyangx-jeiv duqv nyic ziepc nyeic hnyangx. Ninh yiem Ye^lu^saa^lem gunv i hnyangx. Ninh nyei maa nyei mbuox heuc Me^sun^le^metv. Se Yotv^mbaa Mienh, Haalutv, nyei sieqv. ²⁰Ziux Ziouv mangc, Aamon zoux waaic sic hnangv ninh nyei die, Maa^natv^se, zoux nor. ²¹Ninh zuotc ninh nyei die nyei yietc zungv nyungc zeiv zoux. Ninh zaangc yaac baaix ninh nyei die zaangc nyei miuc-fangx. ²²Ninh guangc Ziouv, ninh nyei nyei ong-taaix nyei Tin-Hungh, maiv yangh Ziouv nyei jauv.
²³Aamon nyei jien daav za'eix ngaengc ninh ziouc yiem hungh dinc gu'nyuoz daix ninh. ²⁴Mv baac Yu^ndaa Deic-Bung nyei baeqc fingx daix dongh daav za'eix daix hungh diex wuov deix mienh. Ninh mbuo yaac liepc Aamon nyei dorn, Yo^si^yaa, div ninh zoux hungh.
²⁵Aamon gunv nyei ziangh hoc zoux liuz zengc njiec nyei sic fiev jienv Yu^ndaa hungh nyei hungh douh daan. ²⁶Ninh zangx jienv Utc^saa nyei huingx, ninh ganh nyei zouv. Ninh nyei dorn, Yo^si^yaa, nzipc jienv ninh zoux hungh.