II Chronicles 33 · דברי הימים ב

Menashshe was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for fifty five years in Yerushalayim:

but he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the abominations of the nations, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Yisra᾽el.

For he built again the high places which Yeĥizqiyyahu his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for the Be῾alim, and made asherot, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Yerushalayim shall my name be for ever.

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

And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he practised divination, and sorcery, and witchcraft, and dealt with mediums, and with wizards: he did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

And he set up a curved idol, the image which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Shelomo his son, In this house, and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Yisra᾽el, will I put my name for ever:

nor will I remove the foot of Yisra᾽el again from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; if only they will take heed to do all that I have commanded them, according to the whole Tora and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Moshe.

So Menashshe made Yehuda and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to go astray, and to do worse than the nations, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Yisra᾽el.

And the Lord spoke to Menashshe, and to his people: but they would not hearken.

So that the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Ashshur, who took Menashshe among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Bavel.

And when he was in affliction, he besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

And prayed to him: and he received his entreaty, and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Yerushalayim into his kingdom. Then Menashshe knew that the Lord was God.

Now after this he built a wall outside the city of David, on the west side of Giĥon, in the wadi, to the entrance by the fish gate, and he built it round the ῾Ofel, and raised it to a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fortified cities of Yehuda.

And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of the Lord, and in Yerushalayim, and cast them out of the city.

And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed on it peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Yehuda to serve the Lord God of Yisra᾽el.

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

Now the rest of the acts of Menashshe, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Yisra᾽el.

His prayer also, and how it was accepted, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places on which he built high places, and set up asherim and carved idols before he humbled himself: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

So Menashshe slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

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

But he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as did Menashshe his father: for Amon sacrificed to all the carved idols which Menashshe his father had made, and served them;

and he did not humble himself before the Lord, as Menashshe his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

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

But the people of the land slew all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Yoshiyyahu his son king in his stead.