2 Kings 21 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ Menashsheh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Ḥ

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

³ For he turned and built the high places which Ḥ

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

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 son pass through the fire, and practised magic, and used divination, and consulted spiritists and mediums. He did much evil in the eyes of יהוה, to provoke Him.

⁷ And he placed a carved image of Ashĕ

⁸ and no more shall I cause the feet of Yisra’ĕ

⁹ But they did not obey, and Menashsheh led them astray to do more evil than the gentiles whom יהוה  had destroyed before the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹⁰ And יהוה  spoke by His servants the prophets, saying,

¹¹ “Because Menashsheh sovereign of Yehuḏ

¹² therefore thus said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

¹³ ‘And I shall stretch over Yerushalayim the measuring line of Shomeron and the plummet of the house of Aḥ

¹⁴ ‘And I shall forsake the remnant of My inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies. And they shall be for a prey and for a plunder to all their enemies,

¹⁵ because they have done evil in My eyes, and have provoked Me since the day their fathers came out of Mitsrayim, even to this day.’ ”

¹⁶ And also, Menashsheh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Yerushalayim from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Yehuḏ

¹⁷ And the rest of the acts of Menashsheh, and all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

¹⁸ So Menashsheh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Yerushalayim. And the name of his mother was Meshullemeth the daughter of Ḥ

²⁰ And he did evil in the eyes of יהוה, as his father Menashsheh had done,

²¹ and walked in all the ways that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served, and bowed himself to them,

²² and forsook יהוה  Elohim of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of יהוה.

²³ And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and killed the sovereign in his own house.

²⁴ 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.

²⁵ And the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

²⁶ And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza. And his son Yoshiyahu reigned in his place.