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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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猶大王瑪拿西
（代下33．1－20）
1瑪拿西登基的時候年十二歲，在耶路撒冷作王五十五年。他母親名叫協西巴。
2瑪拿西行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，效法耶和華在以色列人面前趕出的列國那些可憎的事。
3他重新建築他父親希西家所毀壞的丘壇，又為巴力築壇，造亞舍拉，效法以色列王亞哈所行的，敬拜天上的萬象，事奉它們。
4他在耶和華殿中築壇，耶和華曾指着這殿說：「我必立我的名在耶路撒冷。」
5他在耶和華殿的兩個院子為天上的萬象築壇，
6並使他的兒子經火，又觀星象，行法術，求問招魂的和行巫術的，多行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，惹他發怒。
7他又把自己所造的亞舍拉雕像立在殿內，耶和華曾對大衛和他兒子所羅門說：「我在以色列眾支派中所選擇的耶路撒冷和這殿，必立我的名，直到永遠。
8只要以色列人謹守遵行我一切所吩咐的和我僕人摩西所吩咐的一切律法，我就不再使他們的腳挪移，離開我所賜給他們列祖之地。」
9他們卻不聽從，並且瑪拿西引誘他們行惡，比耶和華在以色列人面前所滅的列國更嚴重。
10耶和華藉他僕人眾先知說：
11「因猶大王瑪拿西行這些可憎的惡事，比先前亞摩利人所行的一切更壞，使猶大人拜偶像，陷入罪裏，
12所以耶和華－以色列的上帝如此說：看哪，我必降禍於耶路撒冷和猶大，凡聽見的人都必雙耳齊鳴。
13我必用量撒瑪利亞的準繩和亞哈家的鉛垂線拉在耶路撒冷之上；我必擦拭耶路撒冷，如人擦盤子，把盤子翻過來。
14我必撇棄我產業中的餘民，把他們交在仇敵手中，使他們成為所有仇敵的擄物和掠物，
15因為自從他們的祖先出埃及的那日直到今日，他們常行我眼中看為惡的事，惹我發怒。」
16瑪拿西行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，使猶大陷入罪裏，又流許多無辜人的血，直到這血充滿了耶路撒冷，從這邊到那邊。
17瑪拿西其餘的事，凡他所做的和他所犯的罪，不都寫在《猶大列王記》上嗎？
18瑪拿西與他祖先同睡，葬在自己王宮的園子，烏撒園裏，他兒子亞們接續他作王。
猶大王亞們
（代下33．21－25）
19亞們登基的時候年二十二歲，在耶路撒冷作王二年。他母親名叫米舒利密，是約提巴人哈魯斯的女兒。
20亞們行耶和華眼中看為惡的事，效法他父親瑪拿西所行的。
21他行他父親一切所行的道，事奉他父親所事奉的偶像，敬拜它們，
22離棄耶和華－他列祖的上帝，不遵行耶和華的道。
23亞們的臣僕背叛他，在宮裏殺了王。
24但這地的百姓殺了所有背叛亞們王的人；這地的百姓立他兒子約西亞接續他作王。
25亞們其餘所做的事，不都寫在《猶大列王記》上嗎？
26亞們葬在烏撒園內自己的墳墓裏，他兒子約西亞接續他作王。