2 Chronicles 33
1 Manasseh was 12 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 55 years.
| منسی دوازده ساله بود که پادشاه شد و پنجاه و پنج سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. |
2 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].
| او از اعمال قبیح قومهای بت‌پرستی که خداوند آنها را از کنعان بیرون رانده بود، پیروی می‌کرد و نسبت به خداوند گناه می‌ورزید. |
3 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.
| منسی معبدهای بالای تپه‌ها را که پدرش حِزِقیا خراب کرده بود دوباره بنا نمود، مذبحهایی برای بعل درست کرد و بتهای شرم‌آور اشیره را ساخت. منسی آفتاب و ماه و ستارگان را پرستش می‌کرد و برای آنها مذبحهایی ساخت و آنها را در حیاط خانهٔ خداوند قرار داد، یعنی در همان خانه و اورشلیم که خداوند تا به ابد برای نام خود برگزیده بود. |
4 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 He directed that altars for [worshiping] all the stars be built in both of the courtyards outside the temple.
6 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.
| منسی پسران خود را به عنوان قربانی در درهٔ هنوم سوزانید. او جادوگری و فالگیری می‌کرد و با احضارکنندگان ارواح و جادوگران مشورت می‌نمود. او با این کارهای شرارت‌آمیز، خداوند را به خشم آورد. |
7 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.
| منسی حتی یک بت در خانهٔ خداوند گذاشت، یعنی همان مکانی که خدا دربارهٔ آن به داوود و سلیمان گفته بود: «نام خود را تا به ابد بر این خانه و بر اورشلیم، شهری که از میان شهرهای قبایل اسرائیل برای خود انتخاب کرده‌ام، خواهم نهاد. |
8 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.”
| اگر قوم اسرائیل از قوانین و دستورهایی که من به‌وسیلۀ موسی به آنها داده‌ام پیروی نمایند، بار دیگر هرگز ایشان را از این سرزمینی که به اجداد ایشان داده‌ام، بیرون نخواهم راند.» |
9 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].
| ولی منسی مردم یهودا و اورشلیم را گمراه کرد و آنها بدتر از قومهایی که خداوند آنها را از کنعان بیرون رانده بود، رفتار نمودند. |
10 Yahweh spoke to Manasseh and the people of Judah, but they paid no attention.
| منسی و قوم او به اخطارهای خداوند توجه نمی‌کردند. |
11 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.
| پس خداوند سپاهیان آشور را فرستاد و آنها منسی را گرفته، با غل و زنجیر بستند و او را به بابِل بردند. |
12 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.
| وقتی منسی در تنگنا بود فروتن شد و از خداوند، خدای اجداد خویش طلب یاری نمود. |
13 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.
| خداوند دعای او را شنید و او را به اورشلیم باز آورده، سلطنتش را به او بازگرداند. آنگاه منسی پی برد که خداوند فقط خداست. |
14 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.
| بعد از این واقعه، منسی حصار بیرونی شهر داوود را از دره‌ای که در غرب نهر جیحون است تا دروازهٔ ماهی و نیز حصار دور تپهٔ عوفل را بازسازی نموده، بر ارتفاع آن افزود. او در تمام شهرهای حصاردار یهودا فرماندهان نظامی قرار داد. |
15 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.
| همچنین بت خود را از خانهٔ خداوند برداشت و تمام بتها و مذبحهایی را که بر تپهٔ خانهٔ خداوند و در اورشلیم ساخته بود خراب کرد و همه را از شهر بیرون ریخت. |
16 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.
| سپس مذبح خداوند را تعمیر کرد و قربانیهای سلامتی و هدایای شکرگزاری تقدیم نمود و از مردم یهودا خواست که خداوند، خدای اسرائیل را عبادت کنند. |
17 The people continued to offer sacrifices on the hilltops, but only to Yahweh their God.
| اما قوم باز هم بر بالای تپه‌ها قربانی می‌کردند، ولی فقط برای خداوند، خدای خود. |
18 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’.
| شرح بقیهٔ رویدادهای سلطنت منسی و نیز دعای او به پیشگاه خدا و اینکه چگونه خداوند، خدای اسرائیل توسط انبیا با او سخن گفت، همه در کتاب «تاریخ پادشاهان اسرائیل» نوشته شده است. |
19 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.
| دعای او و مستجاب شدنش، شرح گناهان و شرارتش، اسامی مکانهای روی تپه‌ها که در آنجا بتکده‌ها، بتهای شرم‌آور اشیره و بتهای دیگر بر پا نمود، همه در کتاب «تاریخ انبیا» نوشته شده است. (البته همهٔ اینها مربوط به پیش از بازگشت او به سوی خدا بود.) |
20 Manasseh died and was buried in his palace. Then his son Amon became the king [of Judah].
| منسی مرد و در قصر خود به خاک سپرده شد و پسرش آمون به جای او به تخت سلطنت نشست. |
21 Amon was 22 years old when he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for two years.
| آمون بیست و دو ساله بود که پادشاه یهودا شد و دو سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. |
22 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.
| او نیز مانند پدرش منسی نسبت به خداوند گناه ورزید و برای تمام بتهایی که پدرش ساخته بود قربانی تقدیم کرد و آنها را پرستید. |
23 But he did not humble himself and turn to Yahweh like his father did. So he became more sinful than his father had been.
| ولی برعکس پدرش، در مقابل خداوند فروتن نشد بلکه به شرارتهای خود ادامه داد. |
24 Then Amon’s officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in his palace.
| سرانجام افرادش بر ضد او توطئه چیدند و او را در کاخ سلطنتی‌اش به قتل رساندند. |
25 But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king.
| مردم، قاتلان آمون را کشتند و پسرش یوشیا را به جای او بر تخت سلطنت نشاندند. |
