1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.2 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.3 For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;4 And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.5 And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.6 More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and 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 And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God 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, will I put my name for ever:8 And never again will I let the feet of Israel be moved out of the land which I have given to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, even all the law and the orders and the rules given to them by Moses.9 And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go out of the true way, so that they did more evil than those nations whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel.10 And the word of the Lord came to Manasseh and his people, but they gave no attention.11 So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.12 And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,13 And made prayer to him; and in answer to his prayer God let him come back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh was certain that the Lord was God.14 After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.15 He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.16 And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.17 However, the people still made offerings in the high places, but only to the Lord their God.18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.19 And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.20 So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling for two years in Jerusalem.22 He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon made offerings to all the images which his father Manasseh had made, and was their servant.23 He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.24 And his servants made a secret design against him, and put him to death in his house.25 But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against King Amon, and made his son Josiah king in his place.

1 Duodecim annorum erat Manasses cum regnare cpisset, et quinquaginta quinque annis regnavit in Jerusalem. 2 Fecit autem malum coram Domino, juxta abominationes gentium quas subvertit Dominus coram filiis Isral : 3 et conversus instauravit excelsa qu demolitus fuerat Ezechias pater ejus : construxitque aras Baalim, et fecit lucos, et adoravit omnem militiam cli, et coluit eam. 4 dificavit quoque altaria in domo Domini, de qua dixerat Dominus : In Jerusalem erit nomen meum in ternum. 5 dificavit autem ea cuncto exercitui cli in duobus atriis domus Domini. 6 Transireque fecit filios suos per ignem in valle Benennom : observabat somnia, sectabatur auguria, maleficis artibus inserviebat, habebat secum magos et incantatores, multaque mala operatus est coram Domino ut irritaret eum. 7 Sculptile quoque et conflatile signum posuit in domo Dei, de qua locutus est Deus ad David, et ad Salomonem filium ejus, dicens : In domo hac, et in Jerusalem quam elegi de cunctis tribubus Isral, ponam nomen meum in sempiternum. 8 Et moveri non faciam pedem Isral de terra quam tradidi patribus eorum : ita dumtaxat si custodierint facere qu prcepi eis, cunctamque legem, et cremonias atque judicia, per manum Moysi. 9 Igitur Manasses seduxit Judam, et habitatores Jerusalem, ut facerent malum super omnes gentes quas subverterat Dominus a facie filiorum Isral. 10 Locutusque est Dominus ad eum, et ad populum illius, et attendere noluerunt. 11 Idcirco superinduxit eis principes exercitus regis Assyriorum : ceperuntque Manassen, et vinctum catenis atque compedibus duxerunt in Babylonem.12 Qui postquam coangustatus est, oravit Dominum Deum suum : et egit pnitentiam valde coram Deo patrum suorum. 13 Deprecatusque est eum, et obsecravit intente : et exaudivit orationem ejus, reduxitque eum Jerusalem in regnum suum, et cognovit Manasses quod Dominus ipse esset Deus. 14 Post hc dificavit murum extra civitatem David ad occidentem Gihon in convalle, ab introitu port piscium per circuitum usque ad Ophel, et exaltavit illum vehementer : constituitque principes exercitus in cunctis civitatibus Juda munitis : 15 et abstulit deos alienos, et simulacrum de domo Domini : aras quoque, quas fecerat in monte domus Domini et in Jerusalem : et projecit omnia extra urbem. 16 Porro instauravit altare Domini, et immolavit super illud victimas, et pacifica, et laudem : prcepitque Jud ut serviret Domino Deo Isral. 17 Attamen adhuc populus immolabat in excelsis Domino Deo suo. 18 Reliqua autem gestorum Manasse, et obsecratio ejus ad Deum suum, verba quoque videntium qui loquebantur ad eum in nomine Domini Dei Isral, continentur in sermonibus regum Isral. 19 Oratio quoque ejus et exauditio, et cuncta peccata atque contemptus, loca etiam in quibus dificavit excelsa, et fecit lucos et statuas antequam ageret pnitentiam, scripta sunt in sermonibus Hozai. 20 Dormivit ergo Manasses cum patribus suis, et sepelierunt eum in domo sua : regnavitque pro eo filius ejus Amon.21 Viginti duorum annorum erat Amon cum regnare cpisset, et duobus annis regnavit in Jerusalem. 22 Fecitque malum in conspectu Domini, sicut fecerat Manasses pater ejus : et cunctis idolis qu Manasses fuerat fabricatus, immolavit atque servivit. 23 Et non est reveritus faciem Domini, sicut reveritus est Manasses pater ejus, et multo majora deliquit. 24 Cumque conjurassent adversus eum servi sui, interfecerunt eum in domo sua. 25 Porro reliqua populi multitudo, csis iis qui Amon percusserant, constituit regem Josiam filium ejus pro eo.