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chapter 21
1
Manasses
was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty
years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba.
2 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according
to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of
the children of Israel.
3 And he turned, and built up the high places which
Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made
groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done: and he adored all the host of
heaven, and served them.
4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of
which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.
5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the temple of the Lord.
6 And he made his son pass through fire: and he used
divination, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied
soothsayers to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.
7 He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made,
in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to
Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of
all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
8 And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved
out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do
all that I have commanded them according to the law which my servant Moses
commanded them.
9 But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses,
to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children
of Israel.
10 And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the
prophets, saying:
11 Because Manasses king of Juda hath done these most
wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath
made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:
12 Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel:
Behold I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear
of them, both his ears shall tingle.
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of
Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as
tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the
pencil often over the face thereof.
14 And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and
will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a
prey, and a spoil to all their enemies.
15 Because they have done evil before me, and have
continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt,
even unto this day.
16 Moreover Manasses shed also very much innocent
blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he
made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that
he did, end his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the
words of the days of the kings of Juda?
18 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried
in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amen his son reigned
in his stead.
19 Two and twenty years old was Amen when he began to
reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was
Messalemeth the daughter of Harus of Jeteba.
20 And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as
Manasses his father had done.
21 And he walked in all the way in which his father had
walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he
adored them;
22 And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and
walked not in the way of the Lord.
23 And his servants plotted against him, and slew the
king in his own house.
24 But the people of the land slew all them that had
conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.
25 But the rest of the acts of Amen which he did, are
they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
26 And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden
of Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead.
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