1 Tinha Manassés doze anos de idade, quando começou a reinar, e cinqüenta e cinco anos reinou em Jerusalém.

2 E fez o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor, conforme às abominações dos gentios que o Senhor lançara fora de diante dos filhos de Israel.

3 Porque tornou a edificar os altos que Ezequias, seu pai, tinha derrubado; e levantou altares aos Baalins, e fez bosques, e prostrou-se diante de todo o exército dos céus, e o serviu.

4 E edificou altares na casa do Senhor, da qual o Senhor tinha falado: Em Jerusalém estará o meu nome eternamente.

5 Edificou altares a todo o exército dos céus, em ambos os átrios da casa do Senhor.

6 Fez ele também passar seus filhos pelo fogo no vale do filho de Hinom, e usou de adivinhações e de agouros, e de feitiçarias, e consultou adivinhos e encantadores, e fez muitíssimo mal aos olhos do Senhor, para o provocar à ira.

7 Também pôs uma imagem de escultura do ídolo que tinha feito, na casa de Deus, da qual Deus tinha falado a Davi e a Salomão seu filho: Nesta casa e em Jerusalém, que escolhi de todas as tribos de Israel, porei o meu nome para sempre.

8 E nunca mais removerei o pé de Israel da terra que destinei a vossos pais; contanto que tenham cuidado de fazer tudo o que eu lhes ordenei, conforme a toda a lei, e estatutos, e juízos, dados pela mão de Moisés.

9 E Manassés tanto fez errar a Judá e aos moradores de Jerusalém, que fizeram pior do que as nações que o Senhor tinha destruído de diante dos filhos de Israel.

10 E falou o Senhor a Manassés e ao seu povo, porém não deram ouvidos.

11 Assim o Senhor trouxe sobre eles os capitàes do exército do rei da Assíria, os quais prenderam a Manassés com ganchos e, amarrando-o com cadeias, o levaram para Babilônia.

12 E ele, angustiado, orou deveras ao Senhor seu Deus, e humilhou-se muito perante o Deus de seus pais;

13 E fez-lhe oração, e Deus se aplacou para com ele, e ouviu a sua súplica, e tornou a trazê-lo a Jerusalém, ao seu reino. Então conheceu Manassés que o Senhor era Deus.

14 E depois disto edificou o muro de fora da cidade de Davi, ao ocidente de Giom, no vale, e à entrada da porta do peixe, e ao redor de Ofel, e o levantou muito alto; também pôs capitàes de guerra em todas as cidades fortificadas de Judá.

15 E tirou da casa do Senhor os deuses estranhos e o ídolo, como também todos os altares que tinha edificado no monte da casa do Senhor, e em Jerusalém, e os lançou fora da cidade.

16 E reparou o altar do Senhor e ofereceu sobre ele sacrifícios de ofertas pacíficas e de louvor; e ordenou a Judá que servisse ao Senhor Deus de Israel.

17 Contudo o povo ainda sacrificava nos altos, mas somente ao Senhor seu Deus.

18 O restante dos atos de Manassés, e a sua oração ao seu Deus, e as palavras dos videntes que lhe falaram no nome do Senhor Deus de Israel, eis que estão nas crônicas dos reis de Israel.

19 E a sua oração, e como Deus se aplacou para com ele, e todo o seu pecado, e a sua transgressão, e os lugares onde edificou altos, e pôs bosques e imagens de escultura, antes que se humilhasse, eis que estão escritos nos livros dos videntes.

20 E dormiu Manassés com seus pais, e o sepultaram em sua casa. Amom, seu filho, reinou em seu lugar.

21 Tinha Amom vinte e dois anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e dois anos reinou em Jerusalém.

22 E fez o que era mau aos olhos do Senhor, como havia feito Manassés, seu pai; porque Amom sacrificou a todas as imagens de escultura que Manassés, seu pai tinha feito, e as serviu.

23 Mas não se humilhou perante o Senhor, como Manassés, seu pai, se humilhara; antes multiplicou Amom os seus delitos.

24 E conspiraram contra ele os seus servos, e o mataram em sua casa.

25 Porém o povo da terra feriu a todos quantos conspiraram contra o rei Amom; e o povo da terra fez reinar em seu lugar a Josias, seu filho.

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.