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The Second
Book of Paralipomenon 33
Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all the
abominations of the nations, which the Lord cast out
before the children of Israel:
And he turned, and built again the high places which
Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars
to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host
of heaven, and worshipped them.
He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof
the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for
ever.
And he built them for all the host of heaven in the
two courts of the house of the Lord.
And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the
valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations,
gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians,
and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the
Lord, to provoke him to anger.
He set also a graven, and a molten statue 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.
And I will not make the foot of Israel to be removed
out of the land which I have delivered to their fathers:
yet so if they will take heed to do what I hare commanded
them, and all the law, and the ceremonies, and judgments
by the hand of Moses.
So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had
destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.
And the Lord spoke to him, and to his people, and they
would not hearken.
Therefore he brought upon them the captains of the army
of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses,
and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.
And after that he was in distress he prayed to the Lord
his God: and did penance exceedingly before the God
of his fathers.
And he entreated him, and besought him earnestly: and
he heard his prayer, and brought him again to Jerusalem
into his kingdom, and Manasses knew that the Lord was
God.
After this he built a wall without the city of David,
on the west side of Gihon in the valley, from the entering
in of the fish gate round about to Ophel, and raised
it up to a great height: and he appointed captains of
the army in all the fenced cities of Juda:
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out
of the house of the Lord: the altars also which he had
made in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem,
and he cast them all out of the city.
And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed
upon it victims, and peace offerings, and praise: and
he commanded Juda to serve the Lord the God of Israel.
Nevertheless the people still sacrificed in the high
places to the Lord their God.
But the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer
to his God, and the words of the seers that spoke to
him in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, are contained
in the words of the kings of Israel.
His prayer also, and his being heard, and all his sins,
and contempt, and places wherein he built high places,
and set up groves, and statues before he did penance,
are written in the words of Hozai.
And Manasses slept with his fathers. and they buried
him in his house: and his son Amen reigned in his stead.
Amen was two and twenty years old when he began to reign,
and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses
his father had done: and he sacrificed to all the idols
which Manasses his father had made, and served them.
And he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Manasses
his father had humbled himself, but committed far greater
sins.
And his servants conspired against him, and slew him
in his own house.
But the rest of the multitude of the people slew them
that had killed Amen, and made Josias his son king in
his stead. |
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