اَلْمُلُوكِ ٱلثَّانِي 21

١ 1 كَانَ مَنَسَّى ٱبْنَ ٱثْنَتَيْ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَمَلَكَ خَمْسًا وَخَمْسِينَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَٱسْمُ أُمِّهِ حَفْصِيبَةُ.

Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba.

٢ 2 وَعَمِلَ ٱلشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ حَسَبَ رَجَاسَاتِ ٱلْأُمَمِ ٱلَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ ٱلرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

٣ 3 وَعَادَ فَبَنَى ٱلْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ ٱلَّتِي أَبَادَهَا حَزَقِيَّا أَبُوهُ، وَأَقَامَ مَذَابِحَ لِلْبَعْلِ، وَعَمِلَ سَارِيَةً كَمَا عَمِلَ أَخْآبُ مَلِكُ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَسَجَدَ لِكُلِّ جُنْدِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ وَعَبَدَهَا.

And he turned, and built up the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

٤ 4 وَبَنَى مَذَابِحَ فِي بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ ٱلَّذِي قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَنْهُ: «فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ أَضَعُ ٱسْمِي».

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

٥ 5 وَبَنَى مَذَابِحَ لِكُلِّ جُنْدِ ٱلسَّمَاءِ فِي دَارَيْ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

٦ 6 وَعَبَّرَ ٱبْنَهُ فِي ٱلنَّارِ، وَعَافَ وَتَفَاءَلَ وَٱسْتَخْدَمَ جَانًّا وَتَوَابِعَ، وَأَكْثَرَ عَمَلَ ٱلشَّرِّ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ لِإِغَاظَتِهِ.

And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divination, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

٧ 7 وَوَضَعَ تِمْثَالَ ٱلسَّارِيَةِ ٱلَّتِي عَمِلَ، فِي ٱلْبَيْتِ ٱلَّذِي قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَنْهُ لِدَاوُدَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ ٱبْنِهِ: «فِي هَذَا ٱلْبَيْتِ وَفِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، ٱلَّتِي ٱخْتَرْتُ مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، أَضَعُ ٱسْمِي إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ.

He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

٨ 8 وَلَا أَعُودُ أُزَحْزِحُ رِجْلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَيْتُ لِآبَائِهِمْ، وَذَلِكَ إِذَا حَفِظُوا وَعَمِلُوا حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَا أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِهِ، وَكُلَّ ٱلشَّرِيعَةِ ٱلَّتِي أَمَرَهُمْ بِهَا عَبْدِي مُوسَى».

And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them.

٩ 9 فَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا، بَلْ أَضَلَّهُمْ مَنَسَّى لِيَعْمَلُوا مَا هُوَ أَقْبَحُ مِنَ ٱلْأُمَمِ ٱلَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ ٱلرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

١٠ 10 وَتَكَلَّمَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَنْ يَدِ عَبِيدِهِ ٱلْأَنْبِيَاءِ قَائِلًا:

And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:

١١ 11 «مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّ مَنَسَّى مَلِكَ يَهُوذَا قَدْ عَمِلَ هَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْجَاسَ، وَأَسَاءَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ ٱلَّذِي عَمِلَهُ ٱلْأَمُورِيُّونَ ٱلَّذِينَ قَبْلَهُ، وَجَعَلَ أَيْضًا يَهُوذَا يُخْطِئُ بِأَصْنَامِهِ،

Because Manasses king of Juda hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:

١٢ 12 لِذَلِكَ هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: هَأَنَذَا جَالِبٌ شَرًّا عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ وَيَهُوذَا حَتَّى أَنَّ كُلَّ مَنْ يَسْمَعُ بِهِ تَطِنُّ أُذُنَاهُ.

Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle.

١٣ 13 وَأَمُدُّ عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ خَيْطَ ٱلسَّامِرَةِ وَمِطْمَارَ بَيْتِ أَخْآبَ، وَأَمْسَحُ أُورُشَلِيمَ كَمَا يَمْسَحُ وَاحِدٌ ٱلصَّحْنَ. يَمْسَحُهُ وَيَقْلِبُهُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ.

And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the pencil often over the face thereof.

١٤ 14 وَأَرْفُضُ بَقِيَّةَ مِيرَاثِي، وَأَدْفَعُهُمْ إِلَى أَيْدِي أَعْدَائِهِمْ، فَيَكُونُونَ غَنِيمَةً وَنَهْبًا لِجَمِيعِ أَعْدَائِهِمْ،

And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and a spoil to all their enemies.

١٥ 15 لِأَنَّهُمْ عَمِلُوا ٱلشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيَّ، وَصَارُوا يُغِيظُونَنِي مِنَ ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلَّذِي فِيهِ خَرَجَ آبَاؤُهُمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ إِلَى هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ».

Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

١٦ 16 وَسَفَكَ أَيْضًا مَنَسَّى دَمًا بَرِيًّا كَثِيرًا جِدًّا حَتَّى مَلَأَ أُورُشَلِيمَ مِنَ ٱلْجَانِبِ إِلَى ٱلْجَانِبِ، فَضْلًا عَنْ خَطِيَّتِهِ ٱلَّتِي بِهَا جَعَلَ يَهُوذَا يُخْطِئُ بِعَمَلِ ٱلشَّرِّ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

Moreover Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

١٧ 17 وَبَقِيَّةُ أُمُورِ مَنَسَّى وَكُلُّ مَا عَمِلَ، وَخَطِيَّتُهُ ٱلَّتِي أَخْطَأَ بِهَا، أَمَا هِيَ مَكْتُوبَةٌ فِي سِفْرِ أَخْبَارِ ٱلْأَيَّامِ لِمُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا؟

Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

١٨ 18 ثُمَّ ٱضْطَجَعَ مَنَسَّى مَعَ آبَائِهِ، وَدُفِنَ فِي بُسْتَانِ بَيْتِهِ فِي بُسْتَانِ عُزَّا، وَمَلَكَ آمُونُ ٱبْنُهُ عِوَضًا عَنْهُ.

And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amen his son reigned in his stead.

١٩ 19 كَانَ آمُونُ ٱبْنَ ٱثْنَتَيْنِ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَمَلَكَ سَنَتَيْنِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَٱسْمُ أُمِّهِ مَشُلَّمَةُ بِنْتُ حَارُوصَ مِنْ يَطْبَةَ.

Two and twenty years old was Amen when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth the daughter of Harus of Jeteba.

٢٠ 20 وَعَمِلَ ٱلشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ كَمَا عَمِلَ مَنَسَّى أَبُوهُ.

And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done.

٢١ 21 وَسَلَكَ فِي كُلِّ ٱلطَّرِيقِ ٱلَّذِي سَلَكَ فِيهِ أَبُوهُ، وَعَبَدَ ٱلْأَصْنَامَ ٱلَّتِي عَبَدَهَا أَبُوهُ وَسَجَدَ لَهَا.

And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them;

٢٢ 22 وَتَرَكَ ٱلرَّبَّ إِلَهَ آبَائِهِ وَلَمْ يَسْلُكْ فِي طَرِيقِ ٱلرَّبِّ.

And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

٢٣ 23 وَفَتَنَ عَبِيدُ آمُونَ عَلَيْهِ، فَقَتَلُوا ٱلْمَلِكَ فِي بَيْتِهِ.

And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.

٢٤ 24 فَضَرَبَ كُلُّ شَعْبِ ٱلْأَرْضِ جَمِيعَ ٱلْفَاتِنِينَ عَلَى ٱلْمَلِكِ آمُونَ، وَمَلَّكَ شَعْبُ ٱلْأَرْضِ يُوشِيَّا ٱبْنَهُ عِوَضًا عَنْهُ.

But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.

٢٥ 25 وَبَقِيَّةُ أُمُورِ آمُونَ ٱلَّتِي عَمِلَ، أَمَا هِيَ مَكْتُوبَةٌ فِي سِفْرِ أَخْبَارِ ٱلْأَيَّامِ لِمُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا؟

But the rest of the acts of Amen which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

٢٦ 26 وَدُفِنَ فِي قَبْرِهِ فِي بُسْتَانِ عُزَّا، وَمَلَكَ يُوشِيَّا ٱبْنُهُ عِوَضًا عَنْهُ.

And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead.