¹Manase je bil dvanajst let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je petinpetdeset let v Jeruzalemu.

¹A son of twelve years is Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem;

²In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, po gnusobah poganov, ki jih je bil GOSPOD pregnal pred sinovi Izraelovimi.

²and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel,

³Kajti zgradil je zopet višave, ki jih je razvalil oče njegov Ezekija, in postavil je oltarje Baalom in napravil Ašere in molil vso vojsko nebeško ter jim je služil.

³and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father hath broken down, and raiseth altars for Baalim, and maketh shrines, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.

⁴Zgradil je tudi oltarje v hiši GOSPODOVI, za katero je bil rekel GOSPOD: V Jeruzalemu bode ime moje vekomaj.

⁴And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah of which Jehovah had said, `In Jerusalem is My name to the age.'

⁵In sezidal je oltarje vsej vojski nebeški na obeh dvoriščih pri hiši GOSPODOVI.

⁵And he buildeth altars to all the host of the heavens in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

⁶Peljal je tudi otroke svoje skozi ogenj v dolini sinu Hinomovega; in pečal se je s tolmačenjem znamenj in z vražami in s čarovništvom in podpiral zaklinjalce duhov in vedeževalce; delal je mnogo hudega v očeh GOSPODA, da bi ga dražil v jezo.

⁶And he hath caused his sons to pass over through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed clouds and used enchantments and witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and a wizard; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

⁷In postavil je izrezano podobo malika, ki ga je bil naredil, v hišo Božjo, za katero je rekel Bog Davidu in Salomonu, sinu njegovemu: V tej hiši in v Jeruzalemu, ki sem ga izvolil izmed vseh rodov Izraelovih, postavim ime svoje na vekomaj;

⁷And he placeth the graven image of the idol that he made in the house of God, of which God said unto David, and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name to the age,

⁸tudi ne dopustim več, da bi se noga Izraelova genila ven iz dežele, ki sem jo določil očetom vašim, samo če bodo pazili, da delajo vse, kar sem jim zapovedal, ves zakon in postave in sodbe, po Mojzesu.

⁸and I add not to turn aside the foot of Israel from off the ground that I appointed to your fathers, only, if they watch to do all that I have commanded them -- to all the law, and the statutes, and the ordinances by the hand of Moses.'

⁹A Manase je v blodnjo vodil Judo in prebivalce Jeruzalema, da so delali hudo bolj nego narodi, katere je GOSPOD pokončal pred sinovi Izraelovimi.

⁹And Manasseh maketh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

¹⁰In GOSPOD je govoril Manaseju in ljudstvu njegovemu, a niso poslušali.

¹⁰And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,

¹¹Zato je GOSPOD pripeljal nadnje poveljnike vojski kralja asirskega, ki so ujeli Manaseja v spone, ga zvezali z dvema bronastima verigama in odvedli v Babilon.

¹¹and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon.

¹²In ko je bil v bridkosti, je prosil blagovoljnosti GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in se silno ponižal pred Bogom očetov svojih

¹²And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers,

¹³in molil k njemu. In dal se mu je izprositi ter uslišal prošnjo njegovo in ga zopet privedel v Jeruzalem v kraljestvo njegovo. Tedaj je spoznal Manase, da GOSPOD je Bog.

¹³and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah -- He [is] God.

¹⁴Potem je zidal zunanje zidovje ob mestu Davidovem, na zahodni strani Gihona, pri potoku, prav do vhoda v Ribja vrata, in je obkrožil z zidom Ofel ter ga napravil jako visokega in postavil mogočne poveljnike po vseh utrjenih mestih Judovih.

¹⁴And after this he hath built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west of Gihon, in the valley, and at the entering in at the fish-gate, and it hath gone round to the tower, and he maketh it exceeding high, and he putteth heads of the force in all the cities of the bulwarks in Judah.

¹⁵Odstranil je tudi tuje bogove in odpravil malika iz hiše GOSPODOVE in vse oltarje, ki jih je bil zgradil na gori hiše GOSPODOVE in v Jeruzalemu, in jih pometal ven iz mesta.

¹⁵And he turneth aside the gods of the stranger, and the idol, out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and casteth [them] to the outside of the city.

¹⁶In pripravil je oltar GOSPODOV ter daroval na njem mirovne in zahvalne daritve in zapovedal Judi, naj služijo GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu.

¹⁶And he buildeth the altar of Jehovah, and sacrificeth upon it sacrifices of peace-offerings and thank-offering, and saith to Judah to serve Jehovah, God of Israel;

¹⁷Vendar pa je ljudstvo še darovalo po višavah, dasi le GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu.

¹⁷but still the people are sacrificing in high places, only -- to Jehovah their God.

¹⁸Druge zgodbe Manasejeve pa in molitev njegova k njegovemu Bogu in besede vidcev, ki so mu govorili v imenu GOSPODOVEM, glej, zapisane so med zgodbami kraljev Izraelovih.

¹⁸And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the matters of the seers, those speaking unto him in the name of Jehovah, God of Israel, lo, they are [on the book of] the matters of the kings of Israel;

¹⁹Molitev njegova in kako se mu je dal Bog izprositi in ves greh njegov in njegovo verolomstvo in mesta, na katerih je zgradil višave in postavil Ašere in izrezane podobe, preden se je ponižal: glej, zapisano je v zgodovini Hozajevi.

¹⁹and his prayer, and his entreaty, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places in which he had built high places, and established the shrines and the graven images before his being humbled, lo, they are written beside the matters of Hozai.

²⁰In legel je Manase k očetom svojim, in pokopali so ga v hiši njegovi; in sin njegov Amon je zakraljeval na mestu njegovem.

²⁰And Manasseh lieth with his fathers, and they bury him in his own house, and reign doth Amon his son in his stead.

²¹Amon je bil dvaindvajset let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je dve leti v Jeruzalemu.

²¹A son of twenty and two years [is] Amon in his reigning, and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem,

²²In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, kakor je bil delal Manase, oče njegov; daroval je namreč vsem izrezanim podobam, ki jih je bil naredil oče njegov, ter jim služil.

²²and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father, and to all the graven images that Manasseh his father had made hath Amon sacrificed, and serveth them,

²³A ni se ponižal pred GOSPODOM, kakor se je bil ponižal njegov oče Manase, temuč je kopičil krivdo za krivdo nadse.

²³and hath not been humbled before Jehovah, like the humbling of Manasseh his father, for Amon himself hath multiplied guilt.

²⁴In hlapci njegovi so se zarotili zoper njega in ga usmrtili v hiši njegovi.Ljudstvo dežele pa je pobilo vse tiste, ki so se bili zarotili zoper kralja Amona; in ljudstvo dežele je postavilo Josija, sina njegovega, za kralja na mestu njegovem.

²⁴And his servants conspire against him, and put him to death in his own house,

²⁵Ljudstvo dežele pa je pobilo vse tiste, ki so se bili zarotili zoper kralja Amona; in ljudstvo dežele je postavilo Josija, sina njegovega, za kralja na mestu njegovem.

²⁵and the people of the land smite all those conspiring against king Amon, and the people of the land cause Josiah his son to reign in his stead.