Fiawo 2 21
1 Manase xɔ ƒe wuieve esime wòzu fia, eye wòɖu fia ƒe blaatɔ̃ vɔ atɔ̃ le Yerusalem. Dadaa ŋkɔe nye Hefziba.
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hephzibah.
2 Ewɔ nu si nye vɔ̃ le Yehowa ŋkume eye wòdze dukɔ siwo Yehowa nya le Israelviwo ŋgɔ ƒe ŋunyɔnuwo wɔwɔ yome.
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, like the disgusting things of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the people 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.
For he rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed, and he built altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and he bowed down to all the stars of heaven and worshiped them.
4 Etu vɔsamlekpuiwo ɖe Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me, teƒe si ŋu Yehowa gblɔ le be, “Yerusalem anye nye ŋkɔ ƒe nɔƒe.”
Manasseh built altars in the house of Yahweh, although Yahweh had commanded, “It is in Jerusalem that my name will be forever.”
5 Le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ ƒe xɔxɔnu eveawo la, eɖi vɔsamlekpuiwo na dziƒoŋunuwo.
He built altars for all the stars of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
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.
He caused his son to pass through the fire, he performed sorcery and divination and consulted with those who talked with the dead and with those who talked with spirits. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger.
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!
The carved figure of Asherah that he had made, he placed it in the house of Yahweh. It was about this house that Yahweh had spoken to David and Solomon his son; he had said: “It is in this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, that I will put my name forever.
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.”
I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land that I gave to their ancestors, if they will only be careful to obey all that I have commanded them, and to follow all the law that 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 the people did not listen, and Manasseh led them to do evil even more than the nations that Yahweh had destroyed before the people of Israel.
10 Yehowa ƒo nu to eƒe nyagblɔɖilawo dzi na ameawo be,
So Yahweh spoke by 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 Manasseh king of Judah has done these disgusting things, and has acted wickedly more than all that the Amorites who were before him did, and has also made Judah sin with his idols,
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 Yahweh, the God of Israel, says this: Look, I am about to bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will 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.
I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria, and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab; I will wipe Jerusalem clean, as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14 Gawu la, magbe nu le nye ame ʋɛ siwo asusɔ la gɔ̃ hã gbɔ eye matsɔ wo ade asi na woƒe futɔwo
I will throw off the remnant of my inheritance and give them into the hand of their enemies. They will become victims and plunder for 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 what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their ancestors came out of Egypt, to 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, Manasseh shed much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another with death. This was in addition to the sin by which he made Judah to sin, when they did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
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.
As for the other matters concerning Manasseh, all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
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.
Manasseh slept with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza. Amon his son became king in his place.
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.
Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Meshullemeth; she was the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
20 Ewɔ nu vɔ̃ le Yehowa ŋkume abe fofoa, Manase, ene.
He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done.
21 Ewɔ nu vɔ̃ siwo katã fofoa wɔ eye wòsubɔ legba siwo katã fofoa subɔ.
Amon followed in all the way that his father had walked in and worshiped the idols that his father worshiped, and bowed down to them.
22 Gawu la, egbe nu le Yehowa, fofoawo ƒe Mawu la gbɔ eye mezɔ ɖe Yehowa ƒe ɖoɖowo dzi o.
He abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.
23 Amon ŋumewo ɖo nugbe ɖe eŋu eye wowu fia la le eƒe fiasã me.
The servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death 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 killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
25 Woŋlɔ Amon ƒe ŋutinya mamlɛa ɖe Yuda fiawo ƒe ŋutinyagbalẽ me.
As for the other matters concerning Amon that he did, are they not written in the book of the events of the kings of Judah?
26 Woɖii ɖe eƒe yɔdo me le Uzabɔ me eye via Yosia ɖu fia ɖe eteƒe.
The people buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place.
