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| 1Manasseh began to reign at the age of twelve years, and continued to reign for 55 years in Jerusalem. | 1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: |
| 2But he practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by behaving detestably, as did the nations whom the LORD expelled in front of the Israelis. | 2But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel. |
| 3He re-established the high places that his father Hezekiah had demolished, he built altars to the Baals, erected Asherim, and worshipped and served the armies of heaven. | 3For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. |
| 4He also built altars in the LORD's Temple, about which the LORD had spoken "My name will reside in Jerusalem forever." | 4Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. |
| 5He built altars for all the armies of heaven in the two courtyards of the LORD's Temple. | 5And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD. |
| 6He burned his sons as an offering in the Ben-hinnom Valley, practiced fortune-telling, witchcraft, sorcery, and communicated with mediums and separatists. He did a lot of things that the LORD considered to be evil, thus provoking him. | 6And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. |
| 7He also placed an image that he had carved in God's Temple, the place about which God had told to David and to his son Solomon, "I will place my name in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel," | 7And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, 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 before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever: |
| 8and "I won't let Israel's foothold slip on the land that I've given to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to keep everything that I commanded them in the Law, in the statutes, and in the ordinance through Moses." | 8Neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole law and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moses. |
| 9This is how Manasseh deceived Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to practice more evil than the nations whom the LORD had eliminated in front of the Israelis. | 9So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. |
| 10The LORD kept on speaking to Manasseh and to his people, but they paid no attention to him, | 10And the LORD spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken. |
| 11so the LORD brought in the army commanders who worked for the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him in bronze chains, and took him off to Babylon. | 11Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon. |
| 12But when he was in trouble, he sought the face of the LORD his God, humbled himself magnificently before the God of his ancestors, | 12And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, |
| 13and prayed to him. Moved by Manasseh's entreaties, the LORD heard his supplications and brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. That's how Manasseh learned that the LORD is God. | 13And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God. |
| 14Later on, Manasseh reinforced the outer wall to the City of David on the west side overlooking the Gihon Valley as far as the Fish Gate. He encircled the Ophel, raising it to a great height. | 14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. |
| 15He also eliminated the foreign gods and idols from the LORD's Temple, along with all of the altars that he had built in Jerusalem and on the mountain where the LORD's Temple was located, and he discarded them outside the city. | 15And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. |
| 16He set up an altar to the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings on it, and ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. | 16And he repaired the altar of the LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel. |
| 17Even so, the people continued to sacrifice in the high places, but only to the LORD their God. | 17Nevertheless the people did sacrifice still in the high places, yet unto the LORD their God only. |
| 18Now as to the rest of Manasseh's accomplishments, including his prayer to God and what the seers had to say to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, they are included among the Acts of the Kings of Israel. | 18Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel. |
| 19His prayer, how God was moved by him, all of his sin and unfaithfulness, and a record of the sites where he constructed high places, erected Asherim and carved images before he humbled himself are written in the Acts of the Seers. | 19His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers. |
| 20So Manasseh died, as had his ancestors, and they buried him in his own palace while his son Amon became king in his place. | 20So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead. |
| 21Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. | 21Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem. |
| 22He practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, just as his father Manasseh had done, sacrificing to and serving all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made, | 22But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them; |
| 23except that he never humbled himself to the LORD like his father Manasseh had done. In fact, Amon multiplied his own guilt | 23And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more. |
| 24until his servants finally conspired against him and executed him in his own palace. | 24And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house. |
| 25But the people of the land executed all of the conspirators against King Amon and installed his son Josiah as king to succeed him. | 25But 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. |
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