¹Manase akatanga kubata ushe ava namakore ane gumi namaviri; akabata ushe makore makumi mashanu namashanu paJerusaremu;

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

²akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, akatevera zvinonyangadza zvavahedheni vakanga vadzingwa naJehovha pamberi pavana vaIsiraeri.

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,

³nekuti akavakazve matunhu akakwirira, akanga aputswa nababa vake Hezekia; akamutsira vaBhaari aritari, akaisapowo matanda okunamata nawo; akanamata kuhondo dzose dzokudenga, akadzishumira.

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.

⁴Akavaka aritari mumba maJehovha, kunyange Jehovha akati, PaJerusaremu ndipo pachagara zita rangu nokusingaperi.

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

⁵Akavakira hondo dzose dzokudenga aritari muvazhe mbiri dzeimba yaJehovha.

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

⁶Akapinzawo vana vake mumoto pamupata womwanakomana waHinomi; akatenda mashura, akaita mazango, akabata uroyi, akagadza masvikiro navauki; akaita zvakaipa zvizhinji pamberi paJehovha, ndokumutsamwisa nazvo.

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.

⁷Akaisa mufananidzo wakavezwa wechifananidzo chamwari, chaakanga aveza, mumba maMwari, imo makanga manzi naMwari kuna Dhavhidhi nokunaSoromoni mwanakomana wake, Ndichaisa zita rangu nokusingaperi paimba ino napaJerusaremu, randakatsaura pakati pamarudzi ose aIsiraeri.

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,

⁸Uye handichabvisi tsoka dzaIsiraeri panyika yandakaratidza madzibaba enyu; kana vachichenjerachetekuita zvose zvandakavaraira, murayiro wose, nezvakatemwa, nezvakarairwa naMozisi.

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.'

⁹Manase akatsausa vaJudha navakanga vagere Jerusaremu, vakaita zvakaipa kupfuura zvakaitwa nendudzi dzakaparadzwa naJehovha pamberi pavana vaIsiraeri.

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.

¹⁰Jehovha akataura naManase navanhu vake; asi havana kuteerera.

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

¹¹Saka Jehovha akauyisa vakuru vehondo yamambo weAsiria kuzorwa navo, ivo vakabata Manase nezvikokovonho, vakamusunga namaketani, vakaenda naye Bhabhironi.

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.

¹²Zvino akati ari pakutambudzika kwake, akachema kuna Jehovha Mwari wake, akazvininipisa kwazvo pamberi paJehovha Mwari wamadzibaba ake;

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,

¹³akanyengetera kwaari; akamuteerera, akanzwa kukumbira kwake, ndokumudzosera Jerusaremu paushe hwake. Ipapo Manase akaziva kuti Jehovha ndiye Mwari.

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.

¹⁴Shure kwaizvozvi wakavaka rusvingo nechokunze kweguta raDhavhidhi, kurutivi rwamavirazuva rweGihoni, mumupata, ipo pavanopinda napo pasuwo rehove; akakomberedza Oferi, akavaka rusvingo rwakakwirira kwazvo; akagadzawo vakuru vanoumhare pamaguta ose akakombwa paJudha.

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.

¹⁵Akabvisa vamwari vatorwa, nechifananidzo mumba maJehovha, nearitari dzose dzaakanga avaka mugomo reimba yaJehovha, napaJerusaremu, ndokuzvirashira kunze kweguta.

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.

¹⁶Akavakazve aritari yaJehovha, akabayirapo zvibayiro zvezvipiriso zvokuyananisa, nezvokuvonga, akaraira vaJudha kuti vashumire Jehovha Mwari walsiraeri.

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;

¹⁷Kunyange zvakadaro vanhu vakaramba vachibayira pamatunhu akakwirira, asi vakabayira Jehovha Mwari wavo chete.

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

¹⁸Zvino mamwe mabasa aManase, nomunyengetero wake kuna Mwari wake, namashoko avaoni vakataura kwaari nezita raJehovha Mwari waIsiraeri, tarirai zvakanyorwa mubhuku yamabasa amadzimambo aIsiraeri.

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;

¹⁹Munyengetero wakewo, nokunzwika komunyengetero wake, nezvivi zvake, zvose, nokudarika kwake, nenzvimbo paakavaka matunhu akakwirira napaakaisa matanda okunamata nawo nemifananidzo yakavezwa, achigere kuzvininipisa, tarirai zvakanyorwa pakurondedzera kwaHozai.

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.

²⁰Ipapo Manase akavata namadzibaba ake, vakamuviga mumba make, Amoni mwanakomana wake akamutevera paushe.

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

²¹Amoni akatanga kubata ushe ava namakore makumi maviri namaviri akabata ushe paJerusaremu makore maviri.

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

²²Akaita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, sezvakaita Manase baba vake; Amoni akabayira mifananidzo yose yakavezwa, yakanga yaitwa naManase baba vake, akazvishumira.

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,

²³Haana kuzvininipisa pamberi paJehovha, sokuzvininipisa kwaManase baba vake; asi Amoni uyu akaramba achingowedzera kudarika kwake.

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

²⁴Varanda vake vakarangana vakamumukira, vakamuuraya mumba make.

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

²⁵Asi vanhu venyika iyo vakazouraya vose vakanga varangana vakamukira mambo Amoni; vanhu venyika iyo vakaita mwanakomana wake Josiya mambo panzvimbo yake.

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.