2 Kings 21

1 Manasseh [is] a son of twelve years in his reigning, and he has reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hephzi-Bah;

١ كَانَ مَنَسَّى فِي الثَّانِيَةِ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ عِنْدَمَا تَوَلَّى مَقَالِيدَ الْحُكْمِ، وَظَلَّ مَلِكاً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ مُدَّةَ خَمْسٍ وَخَمْسِينَ سَنَةً، وَاسْمُ أُمِّهِ حَفْصِيبَةُ.

2 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, according to the abominations of the nations that YHWH dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

٢ وَارْتَكَبَ الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ، مُقْتَرِفاً رَجَاسَاتِ الْأُمَمِ الَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ،

3 and he turns and builds the high places that his father Hezekiah destroyed, and raises altars for Ba‘al, and makes an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and bows himself to all the host of the heavens, and serves them.

٣ فَعَادَ وَشَيَّدَ مَعَابِدَ الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ الَّتِي هَدَمَهَا أَبُوهُ حَزَقِيَّا، وَأَقَامَ مَذَابِحَ الْبَعْلِ، وَنَصَبَ تَمَاثِيلَ عَشْتَارُوثَ عَلَى غِرَارِ مَا صَنَعَ آخْابُ، وَسَجَدَ لِكَوَاكِبِ السَّمَاءِ وَعَبَدَهَا.

4 And he has built altars in the house of YHWH, of which YHWH said, “In Jerusalem I put My Name.”

٤ وَبَنَى مَذَابِحَ فِي هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ الَّذِي قَالَ عَنْهُ الرَّبُّ: «فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ أَجَعْلُ اسْمِي».

5 And he builds altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of YHWH;

٥ وَبَنَى فِي دَارَيْ هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ مَذَابِحَ لِكُلِّ كَوَاكِبِ السَّمَاءِ.

6 and he has caused his son to pass through fire, and observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards; he has multiplied to do evil in the eyes of YHWH—to provoke to anger.

٦ وَأَجَازَ ابْنَهُ فِي النَّارِ، وَرَصَدَ الأَوْقَاتَ وَلَجَأَ إِلَى أَصْحَابِ الْجَانِ وَالْعَرَّافِينَ وَأَوْغَلَ فِي ارْتِكَابِ الشَّرِّ مِمَّا أَثَارَ عَلَيْهِ غَضَبَ اللهِ الرَّهِيبَ.

7 And he sets the carved image of the Asherah that he made in the house of which YHWH said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My Name for all time;

٧ وَنَصَبَ تِمْثَالَ عَشْتَارُوثَ الَّذِي صَنَعَهُ، فِي الْهَيْكَلِ الَّذِي قَالَ الرَّبُّ عَنْهُ لِدَاوُدَ وَسُلَيْمَانَ: «فِي هَذَا الْهَيْكَلِ، وَفِي أُورُشَلِيمَ الَّتِي اخْتَرْتُهَا مِنَ الأَرْضِ، الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ، أَجْعَلُ اسْمِي إِلَى الأَبَدِ.

8 and I do not add to cause the foot of Israel to move from the ground that I gave to their fathers, only, if they observe to do according to all that I commanded them, and to all the Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

٨ فَإِذَا أَطَاعَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ وَعَمِلُوا كُلَّ مَا أَمَرْتُهُمْ بِهِ، وَطَبَّقُوا الشَّرِيعَةَ الَّتِي أَوْصَاهُمْ بِها عَبْدِي مُوسَى، فَإِنَّنِي لَنْ أُزَعْزِعَ أَقْدَامَهُمْ مِنَ الأَرْضِ الَّتِي وَهَبْتُهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ».

9 And they have not listened, and Manasseh causes them to err, to do evil above the nations that YHWH destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

٩ لَكِنَّهُمْ عَصَوْا، بَلْ أَضَلَّهُمْ مَنَسَّى فَارْتَكَبُوا مَا هُوَ أَقْبَحُ مِمَّا تَرْتَكِبُهُ الأُمَمُ الَّتِي طَرَدَهَا الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

10 And YHWH speaks by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,

١٠ ثُمَّ قَالَ الرَّبُّ عَلَى لِسَانِ عَبِيدِهِ الأَنْبِيَاءِ:

11 “Because that Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations—he has done evil above all that the Amorites have done who [are] before him, and also causes Judah to sin by his idols—

١١ «لأَنَّ مَنَسَّى مَلِكَ يَهُوذَا اقْتَرَفَ جَمِيعَ هَذِهِ الْمُوبِقَاتِ، وَارْتَكَبَ شُرُوراً أَشَدَّ فَظَاعَةً مِنْ شُرُورِ الأَمُورِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا قَبْلَهُ، وَأَضَلَّ يَهُوذَا فَجَعَلَهُ يَأْثَمُ بِعِبَادَةِ أَصْنَامِهِ،

12 therefore, thus said YHWH, God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing in calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, his two ears tingle.

١٢ لِذَلِكَ يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: هَا أَنَا أَجْلِبُ شَرّاً عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ وَيَهُوذَا، فَتَطِنُّ أُذُنَا كُلِّ مَنْ يَسْمَعُ بِهِ.

13 And I have stretched out the line of Samaria over Jerusalem, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and wiped Jerusalem as one wipes the dish—he has wiped, and has turned [it] on its face.

١٣ وَسأُوْقِعُ عَلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ الْعِقَابَ الَّذِي أَوْقَعْتُهُ بِالسَّامِرَةِ، وَبِأَخْآبَ وَنَسْلِهِ. وَأَمْسَحُ أُورُشَلِيمَ مِنَ الْوُجُودِ كَمَا يُمْسَحُ الطَّبَقُ مِنْ بَقَايَا الطَّعَامِ، ثُمَّ يُقْلَبُ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ لِيَجِفَّ.

14 And I have left the remnant of My inheritance, and given them into the hand of their enemies, and they have been for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies,

١٤ وَأَنْبِذُ بَقِيَّةَ شَعْبِي وَأُسَلِّمُهُمْ إِلَى أَيْدِي أَعْدَائِهِمْ، فَيُصْبِحُونَ غَنِيمَةً وَأَسْرَى لَهُمْ،

15 because that they have done evil in My eyes, and are provoking Me to anger from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”

١٥ لأَنَّهُمِ ارْتَكَبُوا الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيَّ، وَأَثَارُوا سَخَطِي مُنْذُ خُرُوجِ آبَائِهِمْ مِنْ مِصْرَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ.

16 And also, Manasseh has shed very much innocent blood, until he has filled Jerusalem mouth to mouth, apart from his sin that he has caused Judah to sin, to do evil in the eyes of YHWH.

١٦ وَزَادَ مَنَسَّى فَسَفَكَ دَمَ أَبْرِيَاءَ كَثِيرِينَ، حَتَّى مَلأَ أُورُشَلِيمَ مِنْ أَقْصَاهَا إِلَى أَقْصَاهَا، فَضْلاً عَنْ خَطِيئَتِهِ الَّتِي اسْتَغْوَى بِها يَهُوذَا، وَجَعَلَهُ يَرْتَكِبُ الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيَّ».

17 And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

١٧ أَمَّا بَقِيَّةُ أَخْبَارِ مَنَسَّى وَمُنْجَزَاتُهُ وَمَا ارْتَكَبَ مِنْ خَطِيئَةٍ، أَلَيْسَتْ هِيَ مُدَوَّنَةً فِي كِتَابِ أَخْبَارِ أَيَّامِ مُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا؟

18 And Manasseh lies with his fathers, and is buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and his son Amon reigns in his stead.

١٨ ثُمَّ مَاتَ مَنَسَّى وَدُفِنَ فِي حَدِيقَةِ قَصْرِهِ، فِي حَدِيقَةِ عُزَّا. وَخَلَفَهُ ابْنُهُ آمُونُ.

19 Amon [is] a son of twenty-two years in his reigning, and he has reigned two years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz of Jotbah,

١٩ وَكَانَ آمُونُ فِي الثَّانِيَةِ وَالْعِشْرِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَدَامَ حُكْمُهُ سَنَتَيْنِ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَاسْمُ أُمِّهِ مَشُلَّمَةُ بِنْتُ حَارُوصَ مِنْ يَطْبَةَ،

20 and he does evil in the eyes of YHWH, as his father Manasseh did,

٢٠ وَارْتَكَبَ الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ مِثْلَ أَبِيهِ.

21 and walks in all the way that his father walked in, and serves the idols that his father served, and bows himself to them,

٢١ لَمْ يَحِدْ عَنْ طَرِيقِ أَبِيهِ، وَعَبَدَ الأَصْنَامَ الَّتِي عَبَدَهَا أَبُوهُ وَسَجَدَ لَهَا.

22 and forsakes YHWH, God of his fathers, and has not walked in the way of YHWH.

٢٢ وَتَخَلَّى عَنِ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِ آبَائِهِ، وَلَمْ يَتَّبِعْ طَرِيقَهُ.

23 And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house,

٢٣ وَتَآمَرَ عَلَيْهِ رِجَالُهُ وَاغْتَالُوهُ فِي قَصْرِهِ،

24 and the people of the land strike all those conspiring against King Amon, and the people of the land cause his son Josiah to reign in his stead.

٢٤ غَيْرَ أَنَّ الشَّعْبَ هَاجَمَ قَتَلَةَ الْمَلِكِ آمُونَ وَقَضَى عَلَيْهِمْ، وَنَصَّبَ يُوشِيَّا ابْنَهُ خَلَفاً لَهُ.

25 And the rest of the matters of Amon that he did, are they not written on the scroll of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

٢٥ أَمَّا بَقِيَّةُ أَخْبَارِ آمُونَ وَمُنْجَزَاتُهُ أَلَيْسَتْ هِي مُدَوَّنَةً فِي كِتَابِ أَخْبَارِ أَيَّامِ مُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا.

26 And [one] buries him in his burying-place in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigns in his stead.

٢٦ وَدُفِنَ فِي قَبْرِهِ فِي حَدِيقَةِ عُزَّا وَخَلَفَهُ ابْنُهُ يُوشِيَّا عَلَى الْمُلْكِ.