2 Chronicles 33

1 son: aged two ten year Manasseh in/on/with to reign he and fifty and five year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem

Manasseh was 12 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.

2 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD like/as abomination [the] nation which to possess: take LORD from face: before son: descendant/people Israel

He did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil. He imitated the disgusting things that were formerly done by the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled from Israel as his people advanced [though the land].

3 and to return: rescue and to build [obj] [the] high place which to tear Hezekiah father his and to arise: raise altar to/for Baal and to make Asherah and to bow to/for all army [the] heaven and to serve: minister [obj] them

He commanded his workers to rebuild the shrines [for worshiping idols] that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He told them to set up altars to [honor] the statues of Baal, and to make altars to [honor the goddess] Asherah. He bowed down to [worship] all the stars.

4 and to build altar in/on/with house: temple LORD which to say LORD in/on/with Jerusalem to be name my to/for forever: enduring

He directed his workers to build altars [for foreign gods] in the temple, about which Yahweh had said, “It is here in Jerusalem that I want people to worship me, forever.”

5 and to build altar to/for all army [the] heaven in/on/with two court house: temple LORD

He directed that altars for [worshiping] all the stars be built in both of the courtyards outside the temple.

6 and he/she/it to pass [obj] son: child his in/on/with fire in/on/with Valley son: child (Topheth of son of) Hinnom and to divine and to divine and to practice sorcery and to make: do medium and spiritist to multiply to/for to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD to/for to provoke him

He even sacrificed [some of] his own sons and burned them in a fire in Hinnom Valley. He performed rituals to practice sorcery. He asked fortune-tellers for advice. He performed witchcraft. He talked to people who consulted the spirits of people who had died to find out what would happen in the future. He did many things that Yahweh considered o be very evil, things that caused Yahweh to become very angry.

7 and to set: make [obj] idol [the] idol which to make in/on/with house: temple [the] God which to say God to(wards) David and to(wards) Solomon son: child his in/on/with house: home [the] this and in/on/with Jerusalem which to choose from all tribe Israel to set: put [obj] name my to/for ever

Manasseh took a carved idol [that his workers had made] and put it in the temple. That is the temple concerning which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “My temple will be here in Jerusalem, the city that I have chosen [where I want people to] worship me, forever.

8 and not to add: again to/for to turn aside: remove [obj] foot Israel from upon [the] land: soil which to stand: appoint to/for father your except if to keep: careful to/for to make: do [obj] all which to command them to/for all [the] instruction and [the] statute: decree and [the] justice: judgement in/on/with hand: by Moses

If they will obey all the laws and decrees and regulations that I told Moses to give to them, I will not again force the Israeli people to leave this land that I gave to their ancestors.”

9 and to go astray Manasseh [obj] Judah and to dwell Jerusalem to/for to make: do bad: evil from [the] nation which to destroy LORD from face: before son: descendant/people Israel

But Manasseh led the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to do things that are wrong, with the result that they did more evil than was done by the people in the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israeli people advanced [through the land].

10 and to speak: speak LORD to(wards) Manasseh and to(wards) people his and not to listen

Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.

11 and to come (in): bring LORD upon them [obj] ruler [the] army which to/for king Assyria and to capture [obj] Manasseh in/on/with thistle and to bind him in/on/with bronze and to go: take him Babylon [to]

So Yahweh caused the army commanders of Assyria [and their soldiers] to [come to Jerusalem, and they] captured Manasseh. They put a hook in his nose and put bronze chains on his [feet] and took him to Babylon.

12 and like/as to constrain to/for him to beg [obj] face of LORD God his and be humble much from to/for face: before God father his

There, while he was suffering, he humbled himself greatly in the presence of Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors [worshiped], and pleaded with Yahweh to help him.

13 and to pray to(wards) him and to pray to/for him and to hear: hear supplication his and to return: return him Jerusalem to/for royalty his and to know Manasseh for LORD he/she/it [the] God

When he prayed, Yahweh heard him and pitied him. So he [allowed him to] return to Jerusalem and [to] rule his kingdom again. Then Manasseh realized that Yahweh is [an all-powerful] God.

14 and after so to build wall outer to/for city David west [to] to/for Gihon in/on/with torrent: valley and to/for to come (in): towards in/on/with gate [the] Fish (Gate) and to turn: surround to/for Ophel and to exult her much and to set: put ruler strength: soldiers in/on/with all [the] city [the] to gather/restrain/fortify in/on/with Judah

Later, Manasseh’s [workers] rebuilt the eastern section of the outer wall around Jerusalem, and [they] made it higher. That section extended from Gihon Spring [north] to the Fish Gate, and around the part of the city that they called Ophel [Hill]. Manasseh also appointed army officers to guard each of the cities in Judah that had walls around them.

15 and to turn aside: remove [obj] God [the] foreign and [obj] [the] idol from house: temple LORD and all [the] altar which to build in/on/with mountain: mount house: temple LORD and in/on/with Jerusalem and to throw outside [to] to/for city

Manasseh’s [workers] removed from the temple the idols and the stone statues of gods of other nations. Manasseh also [told them to] remove the altars that they had previously built on Zion Hill and in [other places in] Jerusalem. He had all those things thrown out of the city.

16 (and to build *Q(K)*) [obj] altar LORD and to sacrifice upon him sacrifice peace offering and thanksgiving and to say to/for Judah to/for to serve: minister [obj] LORD God Israel

Then he [told them to] repair the altar of Yahweh, and he offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh and to thank him. And he told [the people of] Judah that they must worship [only] Yahweh.

17 truly still [the] people to sacrifice in/on/with high place except to/for LORD God their

The people continued to offer sacrifices on the hilltops, but only to Yahweh their God.

18 and remainder word: deed Manasseh and prayer his to(wards) God his and word: deed [the] seer [the] to speak: speak to(wards) him in/on/with name LORD God Israel look! they upon Chronicles king Israel

The other things that happened while Manasseh was ruling, including his prayer to God and the messages from Yahweh that the prophets gave to him, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel’.

19 and prayer his and to pray to/for him and all sin his and unfaithfulness his and [the] place which to build in/on/with them high place and to stand: stand [the] Asherah and [the] idol to/for face: before be humble he look! they to write upon word: deed seer

What Manasseh prayed and how God pitied him because he pleaded to God, and also his sins and ways in which he disobeyed God, and the [list of] places where he built shrines and set up poles to [honor the goddess] Asherah and other idols [before he humbled himself], are written in what the prophets wrote.

20 and to lie down: be dead Manasseh with father his and to bury him house: home his and to reign Amon son: child his underneath: instead him

Manasseh died and was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the king [of Judah].

21 son: aged twenty and two year Amon in/on/with to reign he and two year to reign in/on/with Jerusalem

Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.

22 and to make: do [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD like/as as which to make: do Manasseh father his and to/for all [the] idol which to make Manasseh father his to sacrifice Amon and to serve: minister them

He did things that Yahweh considered to be evil, like his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped all the idols that Manasseh’s [workers] had made.

23 and not be humble from to/for face: before LORD like/as be humble Manasseh father his for he/she/it Amon to multiply guiltiness

But he did not humble himself and turn to Yahweh like his father did. So he became more sinful than his father had been.

24 and to conspire upon him servant/slave his and to die him in/on/with house: home his

Then Amon’s officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in his palace.

25 and to smite people [the] land: country/planet [obj] all [the] to conspire upon [the] king Amon and to reign people [the] land: country/planet [obj] Josiah son: child his underneath: instead him

But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.