Fiawo 2 21
1 Manase xɔ ƒe wuieve esime wòzu fia, eye wòɖu fia ƒe blaatɔ̃ vɔ atɔ̃ le Yerusalem. Dadaa ŋkɔe nye Hefziba.
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.
2 Ewɔ nu si nye vɔ̃ le Yehowa ŋkume eye wòdze dukɔ siwo Yehowa nya le Israelviwo ŋgɔ ƒe ŋunyɔnuwo wɔwɔ yome.
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.
3 Egbugbɔ nuxeƒe siwo fofoa, Hezekia gbã la tu. Hekpe ɖe esiawo ŋu la, etu vɔsamlekpuiwo na Baal eye wòli aƒeli abe ale si Ahab, Israel fia, wɔ la ene. Ede ta agu na dziƒonuwo katã eye wòsubɔ wo.
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.
4 Etu vɔsamlekpuiwo ɖe Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me, teƒe si ŋu Yehowa gblɔ le be, “Yerusalem anye nye ŋkɔ ƒe nɔƒe.”
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.
5 Le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ ƒe xɔxɔnu eveawo la, eɖi vɔsamlekpuiwo na dziƒoŋunuwo.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.
6 Etsɔa Via ŋutsuvi saa dzovɔe. Ekaa afa, dea nubiaƒe kple ŋɔliyɔlawo gbɔ. Ewɔ nu siwo nye vɔ̃ la geɖe fũu le Yehowa ŋkume hetsɔ do dzikue nɛ.
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.
7 Manase li aƒeli si wòwɔ la ɖe gbedoxɔ la me, teƒe si tututu ŋu Yehowa ƒo nu tsoe na David kple Solomo esi wògblɔ be, “Matsɔ nye ŋkɔ aɖo gbedoxɔ sia me kple Yerusalem, du si metia tso Israel ƒe towo ƒe duwo katã me la ŋu tegbetegbe!
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.
8 Eye nyemana Israel ƒe afɔ nage le anyigba si metsɔ na wo fofowo la dzi o, nenye be wolé se siwo katã mede na wo kple se siwo katã nye dɔla Mose de na wo la me ɖe asi, eye wowɔ wo dzi ko.”
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.
9 Ke ameawo meɖo to Yehowa o eye Manase na wowɔ nu vɔ̃ wu dukɔ siwo ƒo xlã wo, togbɔ be Yehowa tsrɔ̃ dukɔ siawo le woƒe nu vɔ̃wo ta, esi Israelviwo ge ɖe anyigba la dzi gɔ̃ hã.
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.
10 Yehowa ƒo nu to eƒe nyagblɔɖilawo dzi na ameawo be,
And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:
11 “Esi Fia Manase wɔ nu vɔ̃ siawo eye wòvɔ̃ɖi wu Amoritɔwo, ame siwo nɔ anyigba la dzi tsã eye esi wòkplɔ Yuda de legbasubɔsubɔ me ta la,
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:
12 Yehowa, Israel ƒe Mawu be mahe dzɔgbevɔ̃e va Yerusalem kple Yuda dzi ale gbegbe be ame sia ame si ase nu tso dzɔgbevɔ̃e sia ŋu la ƒe to me aɖi yeŋ kple vɔvɔ̃.
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.
13 Matsɔ dzidzeka si metsɔ dzidze Samaria kple Ahab ƒe aƒe la adzidze Yerusalem. Maklɔ Yerusalem abe ale si woklɔa agbae ene eye matrɔe atsyɔ anyi.
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.
14 Gawu la, magbe nu le nye ame ʋɛ siwo asusɔ la gɔ̃ hã gbɔ eye matsɔ wo ade asi na woƒe futɔwo
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.
15 elabena wowɔ nu vɔ̃ le nye ŋkume eye wodo dɔmedzoe nam tso esime mekplɔ wo tɔgbuiwo tso Egipte va se ɖe fifi.”
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.
16 Hekpe ɖe legbasubɔsubɔ si Yehowa lé fui, subɔsubɔ si me Manase he ameawo dee ŋu la, Manase wu ame maɖifɔ geɖewo eye ame siwo wòwu la ƒe kukuawo xɔ Yerusalem ƒe akpa sia akpa.
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.
17 Woŋlɔ Manase ƒe fiaɖuɖu vɔ̃ɖi la ƒe ŋutinya mamlɛa kple nu siwo wòwɔ kpakple eƒe nu vɔ̃ la ɖe Yuda fiawo ƒe ŋutinyagbalẽwo me.
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?
18 Esi wòku la woɖii ɖe eƒe aƒe ƒe abɔ si nye Uza ƒe abɔ le fiasã la me, eye via Amon ɖu fia ɖe eteƒe.
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.
19 Amon xɔ ƒe blaeve-vɔ-eve esi wòɖu fia eye wòɖu fia le Yerusalem ƒe eve. Dadaa ŋkɔe nye Mesulemet, Haruz ƒe vinyɔnu, ame si tso Yotba.
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.
20 Ewɔ nu vɔ̃ le Yehowa ŋkume abe fofoa, Manase, ene.
And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done.
21 Ewɔ nu vɔ̃ siwo katã fofoa wɔ eye wòsubɔ legba siwo katã fofoa subɔ.
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;
22 Gawu la, egbe nu le Yehowa, fofoawo ƒe Mawu la gbɔ eye mezɔ ɖe Yehowa ƒe ɖoɖowo dzi o.
And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
23 Amon ŋumewo ɖo nugbe ɖe eŋu eye wowu fia la le eƒe fiasã me.
And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.
24 Dukɔmevi aɖewo wu ame siwo wu Fia Amon la dometɔ ɖe sia ɖe eye wotsɔ Amon ƒe vi Yosia ɖo fiae.
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.
25 Woŋlɔ Amon ƒe ŋutinya mamlɛa ɖe Yuda fiawo ƒe ŋutinyagbalẽ me.
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?
26 Woɖii ɖe eƒe yɔdo me le Uzabɔ me eye via Yosia ɖu fia ɖe eteƒe.
And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead.
