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The Fourth
Book of Kings 21
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.
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.
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.
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which
the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the temple of the Lord.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the
prophets, saying:
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as Manasses
his father had done.
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;
And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and walked
not in the way of the Lord.
And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king
in his own house.
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.
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?
And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of
Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead. |
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