Ii Paralipomenon 33

1 Duodecim annorum erat Manasses cum regnare coepisset, et quinquagintaquinque annis regnavit in Ierusalem.

Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

2 Fecit autem malum coram Domino iuxta abominationes gentium, quas subvertit Dominus coram filiis Israel:

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

3 et conversus instauravit excelsa, quae demolitus fuerat Ezechias pater eius: construxitque aras Baalim, et fecit lucos, et adoravit omnem militiam caeli, et coluit eam.

And he returned and built the high places, which his father Ezekias had pulled down, and set up images to Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

4 Aedificavit quoque altaria in domo Domini, de qua dixerat Dominus: In Ierusalem erit nomen meum in aeternum.

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, concerning which the Lord said, In Jerusalem shall be my name for ever.

5 Aedificavit autem ea cuncto exercitui caeli in duobus atriis domus Domini.

And he built altars to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

6 Transireque fecit filios suos per ignem in Vallebenennom: observabat somnia, sectabatur auguria, maleficis artibus inserviebat, habebat secum magos, et incantatores: multaque mala operatus est coram Domino ut irritaret eum.

He also passed his children through the fire in the valley of Benennom; and he divined, and used auspices, and sorceries, and appointed those who had divining spirits, and enchanters, and wrought abundant wickedness before the Lord, to provoke him.

7 Sculptile quoque, et conflatile signum posuit in domo Domini, de qua locutus est Dominus ad David, et ad Salomonem filium eius, dicens: In domo hac et in Ierusalem, quam elegi de cunctis tribubus Israel, ponam nomen meum in sempiternum.

And he set the graven [image], the molten [statue], the idol which he made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever;

8 Et moveri non faciam pedem Israel de terra, quam tradidi patribus eorum: ita dumtaxat si custodierint facere quae praecepi eis, cunctamque legem, et ceremonias, atque iudicia per manum Moysi.

and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, if only they will take heed to do all things which I have commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments [given] by the hand of Moses.

9 Igitur Manasses seduxit Iuda, et habitatores Ierusalem ut facerent malum super omnes gentes, quas subverterat Dominus a facie filiorum Israel.

So Manasses led astray Juda and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

10 Locutusque est Dominus ad eum, et ad populum illius, et attendere noluerunt.

And the Lord spoke to Manasses, and to his people: but they hearkened not.

11 Idcirco superinduxit eis principes exercitus regis Assyriorum: ceperuntque Manassen, et vinctum catenis, atque compedibus duxerunt in Babylonem.

And the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, and they took Manasses in bonds, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

12 Qui postquam coangustatus est, oravit Dominum Deum suum: et egit poenitentiam valde coram Deo patrum suorum.

And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and was greatly humbled before the face of the God of his fathers;

13 Deprecatusque est eum, et obsecravit intente: et exaudivit orationem eius, reduxitque eum Ierusalem in regnum suum, et cognovit Manasses quod Dominus ipse esset Deus.

and he prayed to him: and he hearkened to him, and listened to his cry, and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom: and Manasses knew that the Lord he is God.

14 Post haec aedificavit murum extra civitatem David ad Occidentem Gihon in convalle, ab introitu portae piscium per circuitum usque ad Ophel, et exaltavit illum vehementer: constituitque principes exercitus in cunctis civitatibus Iuda munitis:

And afterward he built a wall without the city of David, from the southwest southward in the valleys and at the entrance through the fish-gate, as men go out by the gate round about, even as far as Opel: and he raised it much, and set captains of the host in all the fortified cities in Juda.

15 et abstulit deos alienos, et simulacrum de domo Domini: aras quoque, quas fecerat in monte domus Domini, et in Ierusalem, et proiecit omnia extra urbem.

And he removed the strange gods, and the graven [image] out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and without the city.

16 Porro instauravit altare Domini, et immolavit super illud victimas, et pacifica, et laudem: praecepitque Iuda ut serviret Domino Deo Israel.

And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and offered upon it a sacrifice of peace-offering and thank-offering, and he told Juda to serve the Lord God of Israel.

17 Attamen adhuc populus immolabat in excelsis Domino Deo suo.

Nevertheless the people still sacrificed on the high places, only to the Lord their God.

18 Reliqua autem gestorum Manasse: et obsecratio eius ad Deum suum: verba quoque Videntium, qui loquebantur ad eum in nomine Domini Dei Israel, continentur in sermonibus regum Israel.

And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and his prayer to God, and the words of the seers that spoke to him in the name of the God of Israel,

19 Oratio quoque eius et exauditio, et cuncta peccata, atque contemptus, loca etiam, in quibus aedificavit excelsa, et fecit lucos, et statuas antequam ageret poenitentiam, scripta sunt in sermonibus Hozai.

behold, [they are] in the account of his prayer; and [God] hearkened to him. And all his sins, and his backslidings, and the spots on which he built the high places, and set there groves and graven images, before he repented, behold, they are written in the books of the seers.

20 Dormivit ergo Manasses cum patribus suis, et sepelierunt eum in domo sua: regnavitque pro eo filius eius Amon.

And Manasses slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the garden of his house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

21 Vigintiduorum annorum erat Amon cum regnare coepisset, et duobus annis regnavit in Ierusalem.

Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

22 Fecitque malum in conspectu Domini, sicut fecerat Manasses pater eius: et cunctis idolis, quae Manasses fuerat fabricatus, immolavit atque servivit.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasses did: and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasses had made, and served them.

23 Et non est reveritus faciem Domini, sicut reveritus est Manasses pater eius: et multo maiora deliquit.

And he was not humbled before the Lord as his father Manasses was humbled; for his son Amon abounded in transgression.

24 Cumque coniurassent adversus eum servi sui, interfecerunt eum in domo sua.

And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his house.

25 Porro reliqua populi multitudo, caesis iis, qui Amon percusserant, constituit regem Iosiam filium eius pro eo.

And the people of the land slew the men who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josias his son king in his stead.