< Chronicles II 33 >

1 Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
كَانَ مَنَسَّى فِي الثَّانِيَةِ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ حِينَ تَوَلَّى مَقَالِيدَ الْحُكْمِ، وَدَامَ مُلْكُهُ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ خَمْساً وَخَمْسِينَ سَنَةً.١
2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.
وَارْتَكَبَ الشَّرَّ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ، مُقْتَرِفاً رَجَاسَاتِ الأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.٢
3 And he returned and built the high places, which his father Ezekias had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
وَعَادَ وَشَيَّدَ مَعَابِدَ الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ الَّتِي هَدَمَهَا أَبُوهُ حَزَقِيَّا، وَأَقَامَ مَذَابِحَ لِلْبَعْلِ وَنَصَبَ تَمَاثِيلَ عَشْتَارُوثَ، وَسَجَدَ لِكَوَاكِبِ السَّمَاءِ وَعَبَدَهَا.٣
4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever.
وَبَنَى مَذَابِحَ فِي هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي قَالَ عَنْهُ الرَّبُّ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ أَجْعَلُ اسْمِي إِلَى الأَبَدِ.٤
5 And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
وَشَيَّدَ فِي فِنَاءَيْ بَيْتِ الرَّبِّ مَذَابِحَ لِكُلِّ كَوَاكِبِ السَّمَاءِ.٥
6 He also passed his children through the fire in the valley of Benennom; and he divined, and used auspices, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke him.
وَأَجَازَ أَوْلادَهُ فِي النَّارِ فِي وَادِي ابْنِ هِنُّومَ، وَلَجَأَ إِلَى السَّحَرَةِ وَالْعَرَّافَاتِ وَأَصْحَابِ الجَانِ وَأَوْغَلَ فِي ارْتِكَابِ الشَّرِّ مِمَّا أَثَارَ غَضَبَ الرَّبِّ الشَّدِيدَ عَلَيْهِ.٦
7 And he set the graven [image], the molten [statue], the idol which he made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;
وَعَمِلَ تِمْثَالاً نَصَبَهُ فِي هَيْكَلِ اللهِ، الَّذِي قَالَ اللهُ عَنْهُ لِدَاوُدَ وَلِسُلَيْمَانَ ابْنِهِ: «فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ وَفِي أُورُشَلِيمَ الَّتِي اخْتَرْتُهَا مِنْ بَيْنِ جَمِيعِ مُدُنِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ أَجْعَلُ اسْمِي إِلَى الأَبَدِ.٧
8 and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments [given] by the hand of Moses.
وَإِنْ أَطَاعُوا وَعَمِلُوا كُلَّ مَا أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ، وَطَبَّقُوا كُلَّ الشَّرِيعَةِ وَالْفَرَائِضِ وَالأَحْكَامِ الَّتِي أَوْصَيْتُهُمْ بِها عَلَى لِسَانِ مُوسَى، فَإِنَّنِي لَنْ أُزَعْزِعَ أَقْدَامَ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنِ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي عَيَّنْتُهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ».٨
9 So Manasses led astray Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
غَيْرَ أَنَّ مَنَسَّى أَضَلَّ شَعْبَ يَهُوذَا وَأَهْلَ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَأَغْوَاهُمْ لاِرْتِكَابِ شُرُورٍ أَشَّدَّ هَوْلاً مِنْ شُرُورِ الأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.٩
10 And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they listened not.
وَمَعَ أَنَّ الرَّبَّ حَذَّرَ مَنَسَّى وَشَعْبَهُ فَلَمْ يُصْغُوا إِلَيْهِ.١٠
11 And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
لِهَذَا أَرْسَلَ الرَّبُّ عَلَيْهِمْ قَادَةَ جُنْدِ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ، فَقَبَضُوا عَلَى مَنَسَّى وَوَضَعُوا خِزَامَةً فِي أَنْفِهِ، وَقَادُوهُ مَغْلُولاً بِسَلاسِلِ نُحَاسٍ إِلَى بَابِلَ.١١
12 And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;
وَفِي ضِيقِهِ اسْتَغَاثَ بالرَّبِّ إِلَهِهِ وَتَذَلَّلَ جِدّاً أَمَامَ إِلَهِ آبَائِهِ،١٢
13 and he prayed to him: and he listened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.
وَابْتَهَلَ إِلَيْهِ فَاسْتَجَابَ لَهُ، وَسَمِعَ تَضَرُّعَهُ وَرَدَّهُ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ وَإِلَى مَمْلَكَتِهِ. فَعَلِمَ مَنَسَّى أَنَّ الرَّبَّ هُوَ اللهُ.١٣
14 And afterward he built a wall without the city of David, from the southwest southward in the valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate, as men go out by the gate round about, even as far as Opel: and he raised it much, and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda.
وَمَا لَبِثَ أَنْ أَعَادَ بِنَاءَ سُورٍ خَارِجَ مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ، غَرْبِيَّ نَهْرِ جِيحُونَ فِي الْوَادِي، حَتَّى مَدْخَلِ بَابِ السَّمَكِ، وَأَحَاطَ قَلْعَةَ الأَكَمَةِ بِسُورٍ مُرْتَفِعٍ جِدّاً، وَأَقَامَ قَادَةَ جُيُوشِهِ فِي جَمِيعِ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا الْحَصِينَةِ.١٤
15 And he removed the strange gods, and the graven [image] out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and without the city.
وَأَزَالَ الآلِهَةَ الْغَرِيبَةَ وَالأَصْنَامَ مِنْ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ، وَهَدَمَ الْمَذَابِحَ الَّتِي بَنَاهَا فِي تَلِّ الْهَيْكَلِ وَفِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَطَرَحَهَا خَارِجَ الْمَدِينَةِ.١٥
16 And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and offered upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering and thank-offering, and he told Juda to serve the Lord God of Israel.
وَرَمَّمَ مَذْبَحَ الرَّبِّ وَقَرَّبَ عَلَيْهِ ذَبَائِحَ سَلامٍ وَشُكْرٍ، وَأَمَرَ شَعْبَهُ أَنْ يَعْبُدُوا الرَّبَّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ.١٦
17 Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, only to the Lord their God.
إِلا أَنَّ الشَّعْبَ ظَلَّ يُقَدِّمُ الذَّبَائِحَ عَلَى الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ قَدَّمُوهَا لِلرَّبِّ إِلَهِهِمْ.١٧
18 And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the God of Israel,
أَمَّا بَقِيَّةُ أَخْبَارِ مَنَسَّى وَصَلاتُهُ إِلَى إِلَهِهِ، وَتَحْذِيرَاتُ الأَنْبِيَاءِ الَّتِي أَنْذَرُوهُ بِها بِاسْمِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، فَهِيَ مُدَوَّنَةٌ فِي كِتَابِ تَارِيخِ مُلُوكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.١٨
19 behold, [they are] in the account of his prayer; and [God] listened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.
كَمَا أَنَّ صَلاتَهُ وَاسْتِجَابَةَ الرَّبِّ لَهُ، وَسائِرَ خَطَايَاهُ وَخِيَانَتَهُ، وَالأَمَاكِنَ الَّتِي شَيَّدَ فِيهَا الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ وَنَصَبَ فِيهَا تَمَاثِيلَ عَشْتَارُوثَ، وَالأَصْنَامَ الَّتِي أَقَامَهَا قَبْلَ تَذَلُّلِهِ فَهِيَ مُدَوَّنَةٌ فِي أَخْبَارِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ.١٩
20 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the garden of his house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
ثُمَّ مَاتَ مَنَسَّى ودُفِنَ فِي بَيْتِهِ، وَخَلَفَهُ ابْنُهُ آمُونُ عَلَى الْمُلْكِ.٢٠
21 Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
كَانَ آموُنُ فِي الثَّانِيَةِ والْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَدَامَ حُكْمُهُ سَنَتَيْنِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ،٢١
22 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasses did: and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasses had made, and served them.
وَارْتَكَبَ الشَّرَّ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ كَمَا عَمِلَ أَبُوهُ مَنَسَّى، وَقَرَّبَ آمُونُ ذَبَائِحَ لِجَمِيعِ التَّمَاثِيلِ الَّتِي عَمِلَهَا أَبُوهُ وَعَبَدَهَا،٢٢
23 And he was not humbled before the Lord as his father Manasses was humbled; for his son Amon abounded in transgression.
إِلّا أَنَّهُ لَمْ يَتَذَلَّلْ أَمَامَ الرَّبِّ كَمَا تَذَلَّلَ أَبُوهُ مَنَسَّى، بَلِ ازْدَادَ شَرّاً.٢٣
24 And his servants conspired against him, and killed him in his house.
وَتَآمَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِجَالُهُ وَاغْتَالُوهُ فِي قَصْرِهِ.٢٤
25 And the people of the land killed the men who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josias his son king in his stead.
غَيْرَ أَنَّ شَعْبَ الْبِلادِ قَتَلَ جَمِيعَ الْمُتَآمِرِينَ عَلَى الْمَلِكِ آمُونَ، وَوَلَّوْا عَلَيْهِمِ ابْنَهُ يُوشِيَّا خَلَفاً لَهُ.٢٥

< Chronicles II 33 >