1 Manasse was twaalf jaar oud toe hy koning geword het, en hy het vyf en vyftig jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Hefs¡ba.
2 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, volgens die gruwels van die nasies wat die HERE voor die kinders van Israel uit verdrywe het.
3 En hy het die hoogtes weer gebou wat sy vader Hisk¡a verniel het, en altare opgerig vir Ba„l en 'n heilige boomstam gemaak, soos Agab, die koning van Israel, gemaak het, en hom gebuig voor die hele leër van die hemel en hulle gedien;
4 ook het hy altare gebou in die huis van die HERE, waarvan die HERE gesê het: In Jerusalem sal Ek my Naam vestig.
5 En hy het altare gebou vir die hele leër van die hemel in altwee die voorhowe van die huis van die HERE;
6 ook sy seun deur die vuur laat deurgaan en met goëlery en verklarings van voortekens omgegaan en dodebesweerders en waarsêers aangestel; hy het baie gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE om Hom te terg.
7 Hy het ook 'n gesnede beeld van Asj,ra wat deur hom gemaak is, in die tempel gesit, waarvan die HERE vir Dawid en sy seun Salomo gesê het: In hierdie huis en in Jerusalem wat Ek verkies het uit al die stamme van Israel, sal Ek vir ewig my Naam vestig.
8 En Ek sal die voet van Israel nie meer laat rondswerwe uit die land wat Ek aan hulle vaders gegee het nie, as hulle net sorgvuldig handel volgens alles wat Ek hulle beveel het, en volgens die hele wet wat my kneg Moses hulle beveel het.
9 Maar hulle het nie geluister nie; en Manasse het hulle verlei om meer kwaad te doen as die nasies wat die HERE voor die kinders van Israel uit verdelg het.
10 Toe het die HERE deur die diens van sy knegte, die profete, gespreek en gesê:
11 Omdat Manasse, die koning van Juda, hierdie gruwels gedoen het -- erger as alles wat die Amoriete gedoen het wat voor hom was, en selfs Juda laat sondig het deur sy drekgode --
12 daarom, so sê die HERE, die God van Israel: Kyk, Ek sal 'n onheil oor Jerusalem en Juda bring, waarvan elkeen wat dit hoor, se twee ore sal tuit.
13 En Ek sal oor Jerusalem die meetsnoer van Samar¡a span en die skietlood van die huis van Agab, en Jerusalem wegvee soos 'n mens 'n skottel uitvee: hy vee dit uit en keer dit onderstebo.
14 En Ek sal die oorblyfsels van my erfdeel verwerp en hulle in die hand van hul vyande oorgee, sodat hulle vir al hul vyande 'n buit en 'n plundering sal word;
15 omdat hulle gedoen het wat verkeerd was in my oë, en My gedurig geterg het van die dag af dat hulle vaders uit Egipte uitgetrek het, tot vandag toe.
16 En Manasse het ook vreeslik baie onskuldige bloed vergiet totdat hy Jerusalem van end tot end daarmee gevul het, behalwe sy sonde waarmee hy Juda laat sondig het om te doen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE.
17 En die verdere geskiedenis van Manasse en alles wat hy gedoen het, en sy sonde wat hy begaan het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie?
18 En Manasse het ontslaap met sy vaders en is begrawe in die tuin van sy huis, in die tuin van Ussa; en sy seun Amon het in sy plek koning geword.
19 Amon was twee en twintig jaar oud toe hy koning geword het, en hy het twee jaar in Jerusalem geregeer; en die naam van sy moeder was Mesull,met, 'n dogter van Harus, uit Jotba.
20 En hy het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE, soos sy vader Manasse gedoen het.
21 En hy het geheel en al gewandel in die weg wat sy vader bewandel het, en die drekgode gedien wat sy vader gedien het en hom voor hulle neergebuig.
22 En hy het die HERE, die God van sy vaders, verlaat en nie in die weg van die HERE gewandel nie.
23 En die dienaars van Amon het 'n sameswering teen hom gesmee en die koning in sy huis omgebring.
24 Maar die volk van die land het al die samesweerders teen koning Amon doodgeslaan, en die volk van die land het sy seun Jos¡a in sy plek koning gemaak.
25 En die verdere geskiedenis van Amon, wat hy gedoen het, is dit nie beskrywe in die Kroniekboek van die konings van Juda nie?
26 En hy is begrawe in sy graf, in die tuin van Ussa; en sy seun Jos¡a het in sy plek koning geword.
1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah.
2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
3 He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven.
4 And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
5 And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
6 And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.
7 He put the image of Asherah which 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, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.
8 And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them.
9 But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.
10 And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets,
11 Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,
12 For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning.
13 And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face.
14 And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves;
15 Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.
16 More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord.
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
18 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place.
19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done.
21 He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;
22 Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.
23 And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house.
24 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.
25 Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
26 He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.