¹Manasej je bil dvanajst let star, ko je zavladal, in vladal je petinpetdeset let v Jeruzalemu. Materi njegovi pa je bilo ime Hefziba.

¹A son of twelve years [is] Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Hephzi-Bah;

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

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

³Zakaj zgradil je zopet višave, ki jih je bil zrušil njegov oče Ezekija, in je postavil oltarje Baalu in napravil Ašero, kakor je storil Ahab, kralj Izraelov, in poklanjal se vsej vojski nebeški in služil zvezdam.

³and he turneth and buildeth the high places that Hezekiah his father destroyed, and raiseth altars for Baal, and maketh a shrine, as did Ahab king of Israel, and boweth himself to all the host of the heavens, and serveth them.

⁴In sezidal je oltarje v hiši GOSPODOVI, o kateri je bil rekel GOSPOD: V Jeruzalemu postavim ime svoje.

⁴And he hath built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah said, `In Jerusalem I put My name.`

⁵Sezidal je tudi 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;

⁶In svojega sina je daroval, da je šel skozi ogenj, in se je pečal z vedeževanjem in zaklinjanjem in podpiral rotilce duhov in čarodejnike: delal je mnogo hudega v očeh GOSPODOVIH, da bi ga dražil v jezo.

⁶and he hath caused his son to pass through fire, and observed clouds, and used enchantment, and dealt with a familiar spirit and wizards; he hath multiplied to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah — to provoke to anger.

⁷Postavil je tudi rezano podobo Ašere, ki jo je bil naredil, v hiši, o kateri je GOSPOD rekel Davidu in Salomonu, sinu njegovemu: V tej hiši in v Jeruzalemu, ki sem ga izvolil iz vseh rodov Izraelovih, postavim ime svoje za vekomaj;

⁷And he setteth the graven image of the shrine that he made in the house of which Jehovah 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 pustim več, da bi šle noge Izraelove z zemlje, ki sem jo dal njih očetom, ako bodo le pazili, da delajo po vsem, kar sem jim ukazal, in po vsej postavi, ki jim jo je zapovedal hlapec moj Mojzes.

⁸and I do not add to cause the foot of Israel to move from the ground that I gave to their fathers, only, if they observe to do according to all that I commanded them, and to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.`

⁹Ali niso poslušali; in Manasej jih je zapeljeval, da delajo, kar je hudo, bolj nego narodi, ki jih je GOSPOD potrebil pred sinovi Izraelovimi.

⁹And they have not hearkened, and Manasseh causeth them to err, to do the evil thing above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

¹⁰Tedaj je govoril GOSPOD po svojih hlapcih, prorokih, in dejal:

¹⁰And Jehovah speaketh by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying,

¹¹Ker je storil Manasej, kralj Judov, vse te gnusobe in delal krivično bolj, nego karkoli so delali Amorejci, ki so živeli pred njim, in je napeljal Judo, da tudi greši ž njegovimi maliki:

¹¹`Because that Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations — he hath done evil above all that the Amorites have done who [are] before him, and causeth also Judah to sin by his idols;

¹²zatorej pravi tako GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Glej, jaz pripravim takšno nesrečo nad Jeruzalem in nad Judo, da mu bode, kdorkoli bo o tem slišal, zvenelo po obeh ušesih.

¹²therefore thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Lo, I am bringing in evil on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever heareth of it, tingle do his two ears.

¹³In potegnem čez Jeruzalem mersko vrvico samarijsko in grezilo hiše Ahabove, in izpraznim Jeruzalem, kakor če kdo obriše skledo: obrišejo in povezne.

¹³And I have stretched out over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and wiped Jerusalem as one wipeth the dish — he hath wiped, and hath turned [it] on its face.

¹⁴In zavržem ostanek dediščine svoje in jih izdam v roko njih sovražnikov, in bodo v rop in v plen vsem sovražnikom svojim,

¹⁴`And I have left the remnant of Mine inheritance, and given them into the hand of their enemies, and they have been for a prey and for a spoil to all their enemies,

¹⁵ker so delali, kar je zlo v mojih očeh, in so me dražili v jezo od dne, ko so odšli njih očetje iz Egipta, do sedaj.

¹⁵because that they have done the evil thing in Mine eyes, and are provoking Me to anger from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.`

¹⁶In Manasej je tudi prelil veliko nedolžne krvi, dokler ni ž njo napolnil Jeruzalema od enega konca do drugega, razen svojega greha, s katerim je zapeljeval Judo v greh, da so delali, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH.

¹⁶And also, innocent blood hath Manasseh shed very much, till that he hath filled Jerusalem — mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he hath caused Judah to sin, to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.

¹⁷Druge zgodbe pa Manasejeve in vse, kar je storil, in greh, s katerim je grešil, ni li zapisano v knjigi letopisov kraljev Judovih?

¹⁷And the rest of the matters of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

¹⁸In Manasej je legel k očetom svojim in je bil pokopan na vrtu hiše svoje, na vrtu Uzovem. In zakraljeval je sin njegov Amon namesto njega.

¹⁸And Manasseh lieth with his fathers, and is buried in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza, and reign doth Amon his son in his stead.

¹⁹Dvaindvajset let je bil star Amon, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je dve leti v Jeruzalemu; in materi njegovi je bilo ime Mesulemeta, hči Haruzova iz Jotbe.

¹⁹A son of twenty and two years [is] Amon in his reigning, and two years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz of Jotbah,

²⁰In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, kakor je bil delal oče njegov Manasej.

²⁰and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father,

²¹In hodil je po vsej poti, po kateri je hodil oče njegov, služeč malikom, ki jim je služil njegov oče, in klanjajoč se jim;

²¹and walketh in all the way that his father walked in, and serveth the idols that his father served, and boweth himself to them,

²²GOSPODA pa, Boga očetov svojih, je opustil, in ni hodil po poti GOSPODOVI.

²²and forsaketh Jehovah, God of his fathers, and hath not walked in the way of Jehovah.

²³In služabniki Amonovi so sklenili zaroto zoper njega in so kralja usmrtili v hiši njegovi.

²³And the servants of Amon conspire against him, and put the king to death in his own house,

²⁴A ljudstvo dežele je pobilo vse, ki so se bili zarotili zoper njega; in ljudstvo dežele je postavilo Josija, sina njegovega, za kralja na mestu njegovem.

²⁴and 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.

²⁵Kar je pa več praviti o Amonu, kar je storil, ni li zapisano v knjigi letopisov kraljev Judovih?In pokopali so ga v grobu njegovem na vrtu Uzovem. In Josija, sin njegov, je zavladal na mestu njegovem.

²⁵And the rest of the matters of Amon that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²⁶In pokopali so ga v grobu njegovem na vrtu Uzovem. In Josija, sin njegov, je zavladal na mestu njegovem.

²⁶and [one] burieth him in his burying-place in the garden of Uzza, and reign doth Josiah his son in his stead.