1 Manassés tinha doze anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou cinqüenta e cinco anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Hefzibá.

2 Ele fez o mal à vista de Jeová, conforme as abominações das nações que Jeová expulsou de diante dos filhos de Israel.

3 Pois tornou a edificar os altos que seu pai Hezequias tinha destruído; levantou altares a Baal, fez uma Asera como tinha feito Acabe, rei de Israel, adorou a todo o exército do céu e os serviu.

4 Edificou altares na casa de Jeová, da qual Jeová disse: Em Jerusalém estabelecerei o meu nome.

5 Edificou altares a todo o exército do céu nos dois átrios da casa de Jeová.

6 Fez passar a seu filho pelo fogo, e usou de augúrios e encantamentos, e teve relações com os que tinham espíritos familiares e com os feiticeiros; e fez muito mal à vista de Jeová, para o provocar à ira.

7 Também colocou a imagem esculpida da Asera, que tinha feito, na casa de que Jeová disse a Davi e a Salomõa, seu filho: Nesta casa, e em Jerusalém, que escolhi dentre todas as tribos de Israel, estabelecerei o meu nome para sempre;

8 nem farei que os pés de Israel para o futuro andem errantes da terra que dei a seus pais; contanto que tenham cuidado de fazer conforme tudo o que lhes tenho mandado, e conforme toda a lei que o meu servo Moisés lhes ordenou.

9 Eles, porém, não ouviram; e Manassés os seduziu para fazerem o que era mau, mais do que fizeram as nações, que Jeová destruiu diante dos filhos de Israel.

10 Falou Jeová pelos profetas seus servos, dizendo:

11 Porque Manassés, rei de Judá, fez estas abominações, e procedeu mais iniquamente do que tudo o que fizeram os amoreus, que foram antes dele, e fez pecar também a Judá com os seus ídolos;

12 portanto assim diz Jeová, Deus de Israel: Eis que trago tais males sobre Jerusalém e Judá que todo o que os ouvir, lhe ficarão retinindo ambos os ouvidos.

13 Estenderei sobre Jerusalém o cordão de Samaria, e o prumo da casa de Acabe; limparei a Jerusalém como quem limpa um prato, o limpa e o vira sobre a sua face.

14 Lançarei fora os restos da minha herança, e os entregarei nas mãos dos seus inimigos; e servirão de presa e de despojo para todos os seus inimigos,

15 porque fizeram o mal à minha vista e me provocaram à ira desde o dia em que seus pais saíram do Egito até o dia de hoje.

16 Além disso derramou Manassés muitíssimo sangue inocente, até que encheu a Jerusalém dum ao outro extremo; afora o seu pecado com que fez pecar a Israel, fazendo o mal à vista de Jeová.

17 Ora, o restante dos atos de Manassés e tudo o que ele fez, e o pecado que cometeu, não estão, porvetura, escritos no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?

18 Adormeceu Manassés com seus pais, e foi sepultado no jardim de sua casa, no jardim de Uzá. Em seu lugar reinou seu filho Amom.

19 Tinha Amom vinte e dois anos quando começou a reinar, e reinou dois anos em Jerusalém. Sua mãe chamava-se Mesulemete, filha de Haruz de Jotbá.

20 Ele fez o mal à vista de Jeová, como havia feito Manassés seu pai.

21 Andou em todo o caminho em que tinha andado seu pai, e serviu os ídolos a que seu pai tinha servido, e adorou-os;

22 abandonou a Jeová, Deus de seus pais, e não andou no caminho de Jeová.

23 Os servos de Amom conspiraram contra ele, e mataram o rei em sua casa.

24 Mas o povo da terra matou todos aqueles que tinham conspirado contra o rei Amom, e constituiu a Josias, seu filho, como rei em seu lugar.

25 Ora, o restante dos atos que Amom fez, não está porventura, escrito no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?

26 Foi sepultado no seu sepulcro no jardim de Uzá. Em seu lugar reinou seu filho Josias.

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, after the abominations of the nations whom Jehovah cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. 4 And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah. 6 And he made his son to pass through the fire, and practised augury, and used enchantments, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. 7 And he set the graven image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah 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 cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. 9 But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.

10 And Jehovah spake by his servants the prophets, saying, 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols; 12 therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Behold, I bring such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 And I will cast off the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; 15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.

16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah. 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

19 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father. 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them: 22 and he forsook Jehovah, the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Jehovah. 23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house. 24 But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.