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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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Vua Ma-na-se thờ hình tượng
(II Sử 33:1-20)
10Đức Giê-hô-va đã dùng các nhà tiên tri, là các đầy tớ Ngài, mà phán rằng:
11“Vì Ma-na-se, vua Giu-đa, đã phạm những điều ghê tởm ấy, làm điều gian ác hơn điều dân A-mô-rít đã làm trước đó, và quyến dụ Giu-đa phạm tội thờ thần tượng,
12nên Giê-hô-va Đức Chúa Trời của Y-sơ-ra-ên phán: ‘Nầy, Ta sẽ giáng trên Giê-ru-sa-lem và trên Giu-đa một tai họa mà bất cứ ai nghe đến cũng phải lùng bùng cả hai tai.
13Ta sẽ căng trên Giê-ru-sa-lem dây đo Sa-ma-ri và dây dọi nhà A-háp. Ta sẽ quét sạch Giê-ru-sa-lem như người ta chùi rửa cái đĩa, rồi úp nó xuống sau khi chùi rửa xong.
14Ta sẽ từ bỏ phần sản nghiệp còn sót lại của Ta, phó chúng vào tay kẻ thù. Chúng sẽ trở thành chiến lợi phẩm và miếng mồi cho mọi kẻ thù,
15vì từ ngày tổ phụ chúng ra khỏi Ai Cập cho đến ngày nay, chúng đã làm điều ác dưới mắt Ta và chọc giận Ta.’”
16Ngoài những tội Ma-na-se đã phạm và gây cho Giu-đa phạm tội, khiến họ làm điều ác dưới mắt Đức Giê-hô-va, vua cũng đã làm đổ máu nhiều người vô tội, đến nỗi máu ấy tràn ngập Giê-ru-sa-lem từ đầu nầy đến đầu kia.
17Chẳng phải các việc khác của Ma-na-se, mọi việc vua làm và tội vua đã phạm đều được chép trong sách lịch sử các vua Giu-đa sao?
18Ma-na-se an giấc cùng tổ phụ mình và được an táng trong vườn của cung vua, tức trong vườn U-xa. Con vua là A-môn lên kế vị.
A-môn kế vị Ma-na-se
(II Sử 33:21-25)
25Chẳng phải các việc khác của A-môn, và những việc vua làm đều được chép trong sách lịch sử các vua Giu-đa sao?
26A-môn được an táng trong mộ riêng của mình tại vườn U-xa. Rồi con vua là Giô-si-a lên kế vị.