2 ARST He did many things that Yahweh said were evil. He imitated the disgusting things that were formerly done by the people of the nations that Yahweh had driven out from the land of Israel as his people advanced through the land. BSB BSB: And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
3 ARST He commanded his workers to rebuild the places of idol worship built on the hills. Those were the very high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He directed his workers to build altars to offer sacrifices of living creatures to Baal. Manasseh made a statue of the goddess Asherah, as Ahab the king of Israel had done previously. And Manasseh worshiped the stars and he served them. BSB BSB: For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he worshiped and served all the host of heaven.
4 ARST He directed his workers to build altars for worshiping foreign gods in the temple of Yahweh, even though Yahweh had said,“It is here in Jerusalem where I want people to worship me, forever.” BSB BSB: Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
5 ARST He directed that altars for worshiping the stars be built in both of the courtyards in the temple grounds. BSB BSB: In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.
6 ARST He even sacrificed his own son and burned him in the fire. He performed rituals to practice sorcery and spells. He also went to people who consulted the spirits of dead people to find out what would happen in the future. He did many things that Yahweh said are extremely evil, things that caused Yahweh to become very angry. BSB BSB: He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
7 ARST He placed the statue of the goddess Asherah in the temple, the place about which Yahweh had said to David and his son Solomon,“My temple will be here in Jerusalem. This is the city that I have chosen from all the territory of the twelve tribes of Israel, where I want people to worship me forever. BSB BSB: Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
8 ARST And if the Israelite people obey all my commands and all the laws that I gave to Moses, the man who served me very well, I will not again force them to leave this land that I gave to their ancestors.” BSB BSB: I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land that I gave to their fathers, if only they are careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole Law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
9 ARST But the people did not pay attention to Yahweh. Manasseh persuaded them to commit sins that were more evil than the sins that were committed by the people of the nations that Yahweh had driven from the land as the Israelite people advanced. BSB BSB: But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
10 ARST These are some of the things that Yahweh said through his prophets. Many times Yahweh had given them these messages: BSB BSB: And the LORD spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
11 ARST “Manasseh, the king of Judah, has done these abominable things, things that are much worse than the things that the Amor people group did in this land long ago. He has lead the people of Judah to sin against Yahweh by worshiping the idols that he worshiped. BSB BSB: “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,
12 ARST Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh, the God whom you Israelite people worship, says to you: I am about to cause disaster to come to Jerusalem and the rest of Judah. It will be terrible, with the result that everyone who hears about it will be stunned. BSB BSB: this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
13 ARST I will judge and punish the people of Jerusalem as I punished the family of King Ahab of Israel. I will remove the people of Jerusalem as people wipe a plate clean and then turn it upside down to show that they are now satisfied. BSB BSB: I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
14 ARST And I will abandon the people who remain alive, and I will allow their enemies to conquer them and steal everything valuable from their land. BSB BSB: So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
15 ARST I will do this because my people have done things that I say are very evil, things which have caused me to become very angry. They have caused me to become angry continually, ever since the time that their ancestors left Egypt.” BSB BSB: because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
16 ARST Manasseh commanded his officials to kill many innocent people in Jerusalem, with the result that their blood flowed in the streets. He did this in addition to persuading the people of Judah to do many things that Yahweh said were evil. BSB BSB: Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
17 ARST If you want to know more about all the things that Manasseh did, and the sin that he committed, they are written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah. BSB BSB: As for the rest of the acts of Manasseh, along with all his accomplishments and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
18 ARST Manasseh died and was buried in the garden outside his palace, the garden that Uzza had made. Then his son Amon became the king. BSB BSB: And Manasseh rested with his fathers and was buried in his palace garden, the garden of Uzza. And his son Amon reigned in his place.
19 ARST Amon was twenty- two years old when he became king. He ruled Judah from Jerusalem for only two years. His mother’ s name was Meshullemeth. She was from the city of Jotbah, and was the daughter of Haruz. BSB BSB: Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
20 ARST He did many things that Yahweh said were evil, as his father Manasseh had done. BSB BSB: And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done.
21 ARST He imitated the behavior of his father, and he worshiped the same idols that his father had worshiped. BSB BSB: He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.
22 ARST He abandoned Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors had worshiped, and did not behave as Yahweh wanted him to behave. BSB BSB: He abandoned the LORD, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the LORD.
23 ARST Then one day some of his officials made plans to kill him. They assassinated him in the palace. BSB BSB: Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
24 ARST But then the people of Judah killed all those who had assassinated King Amon, and they appointed his son Josiah to be their king. BSB BSB: But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
25 ARST If you want to read about the other things that Amon did, they are written in the book of the events of the Kings of Judah. BSB BSB: As for the rest of the acts of Amon, along with his accomplishments, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?
26 ARST Amon was also buried in the tomb in the garden that Uzza had made. Then his son Josiah became the king. BSB BSB: And he was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah reigned in his place.
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