2 Chronicles 33 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim.

² But he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, according to the abominations of the gentiles whom יהוה  dispossessed from before the children of Yisra’ĕ

³ For again he rebuilt the high places which Ḥ

⁴ And he built altars in the House of יהוה, of which יהוה  had said, “In Yerushalayim is My Name, forever.”

⁵ And he built altars for all the host of the heavens in the two courtyards of the House of יהוה.

⁶ And he made his sons pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and practised magic, and used divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

⁷ And he placed a carved image of the idol which he had made, in the House of Elohim, of which Elohim had said to Dawiḏ

⁸ and no more shall I remove the foot of Yisra’ĕ

⁹ Thus Menashsheh led Yehuḏ

¹⁰ And יהוה  spoke to Menashsheh and to his people, but they did not listen.

¹¹ Therefore יהוה  brought upon them the commanders of the army of the sovereign of Ashshur, who captured Menashsheh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and made him go to Baḇ

¹² And when he was in distress, he sought the face of יהוה  his Elohim, and humbled himself greatly before the Elohim of his fathers,

¹³ and prayed to Him. And He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Yerushalayim into his reign. And Menashsheh knew that יהוה  was Elohim.

¹⁴ And after this he built a wall outside the City of Dawiḏ

¹⁵ And he removed the foreign mighty ones and the idol from the House of יהוה, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the House of יהוה  and in Yerushalayim, and he threw them out of the city.

¹⁶ And he built the altar of יהוה, and brought peace offerings and thank offerings on it, and ordered Yehuḏ

¹⁷ But the people were still offering on the high places, though only to יהוה  their Elohim.

¹⁸ And the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, his prayer to his Elohim, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the Name of יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁹ And his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places where he built high places and set up the Ashĕ

²⁰ So Menashsheh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

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

²² But he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, as his father Menashsheh had done. And Amon offered to all the carved images which his father Menashsheh had made, and served them.

²³ And he did not humble himself before יהוה, as his father Menashsheh had humbled himself, for Amon trespassed more and more.

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

²⁵ But the people of the land smote all those who had conspired against Sovereign Amon, and the people of the land set up his son Yoshiyahu to reign in his place.