1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.

3 And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars to the Baals, and made Asherahs, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

5 And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah.

6 He also caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he used magic and divination and sorcery, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

7 And he set the graven image of the idol that he had made, in the house of God, of which God 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, will I put my name for ever;

8 neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land that I have appointed to your fathers; if they will only take heed to do all that I commanded them through Moses, according to all the law and the statutes and the ordinances.

9 And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.

10 And Jehovah spoke to Manasseh and to his people; but they did not hearken.

11 And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

12 And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

13 and prayed to him. And he was intreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Jehovah, he was God.

14 And after this he built the outer wall of the city of David, on the west, toward Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the fish-gate, and carried it round Ophel, and raised it up a very great height; and he put captains of war in all the fortified cities of Judah.

15 And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast {them} out of the city.

16 And he reinstated the altar of Jehovah, and sacrificed on it peace-offerings and thank-offerings, and commanded Judah to serve Jehovah the God of Israel.

17 Nevertheless, the people sacrificed still on the high places, although to Jehovah their God only.

18 And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of Jehovah the God of Israel, behold, they {are written} in the acts of the kings of Israel.

19 And his prayer, and {how God} was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.

20 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house; and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

21 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

22 And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done; and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

23 And he did not humble himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; for he, Amon, multiplied trespass.

24 And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

25 But the people of the land smote all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

1 玛拿西登基的时候， 是十二岁； 他在耶路撒冷作王共五十五年。

2 他行耶和华看为恶的事， 随从耶和华在以色列人面前赶走的列国所行可厌恶的事。

3 他重新建造他父亲希西家拆毁的邱坛， 又为巴力立坛， 制造亚舍拉， 并且敬拜和事奉天上的万象。

4 他又在耶和华的殿中筑坛， 耶和华曾经指着这殿说： "我的名必永远留在耶路撒冷。"

5 玛拿西在耶和华殿的两院中， 为天上的万象筑坛，

6 并且在欣嫩子谷把自己的儿女用火烧为祭， 又占卜、行邪术、用法术、交鬼和通灵； 作了很多耶和华看为恶的事， 惹他发怒。

7 他又把他所做的雕像立在 神的殿中， 神曾经指着这殿， 对大卫和他的儿子所罗门说： "我要在这殿里， 和在我从以色列各支派中拣选的耶路撒冷中， 立我的名， 直到永远。

8 只要以色列人谨守遵行我借着摩西吩咐他们的一切律法、律例和典章， 我就决不再使他们的脚离开我赐给他们列祖的地。"

9 可是玛拿西却引诱犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民行恶， 比耶和华在以色列人面前除灭的列国更厉害。

10 耶和华曾警告玛拿西和他的人民， 他们却不理会。

11 因此耶和华领亚述王的将帅来攻打他们， 用钩子钩着玛拿西， 用铜链锁住他， 把他带到巴比伦去。

12 玛拿西在急难的时候， 就恳求耶和华他的 神， 并且在他列祖的 神面前非常谦卑。

13 他向耶和华祷告， 耶和华应允他的恳求， 垂听他的祈求， 使他归回耶路撒冷， 恢复他的王位。玛拿西这才知道只有耶和华是 神。

14 此后， 玛拿西在大卫城外， 从谷中的基训西边起直到鱼门口， 建了一道城墙， 围绕着俄斐勒， 他把城墙建得很高； 又在犹大各设防城里， 派驻军长。

15 又从耶和华的殿中除掉外族人的神和偶像， 又把他在耶和华殿的山和在耶路撒冷所筑的一切坛， 都拋出城外。

16 玛拿西重修了耶和华的祭坛， 在坛上献上平安祭和感恩祭， 又吩咐犹大人事奉耶和华以色列的 神。

17 可是人民仍然在邱坛上献祭， 尽管只向耶和华他们的 神献祭。

18 玛拿西其余的事迹， 包括他对他的 神的祷告， 和那些先见奉耶和华以色列的 神的名向他所说的话， 都记在以色列诸王记上。

19 他的祷告， 神怎样应允他的恳求， 他谦卑下来以前的一切罪恶和过犯， 以及他在什么地方建筑邱坛， 设立亚舍拉和偶像， 都记在何赛的言行录上。

20 玛拿西和他的列祖同睡， 埋葬在他的宫中； 他的儿子亚们接续他作王。

21 亚们登基的时候， 是二十二岁； 他在耶路撒冷作王共两年。

22 他行耶和华看为恶的事， 像他父亲玛拿西所行的一样； 亚们向他父亲玛拿西所做的一切雕像献祭， 并且事奉它们。

23 他没有在耶和华面前谦卑， 像他父亲玛拿西谦卑一样； 这亚们所犯的罪过越来越多。

24 后来， 他的臣仆阴谋造反， 在宫中把他杀死了。

25 但犹大的人民把所有反叛亚们王的人都击杀了， 并且立他的儿子约西亚接续他作王。