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

¹Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

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

²He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.

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

³For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baals, and made Asheroth, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them.

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

⁴He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

⁵Akavakira hondo dzose dzokudenga aritari muvazhe mbiri dzeimba yaJehovha.

⁵He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.

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

⁶He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practiced sorcery, and used enchantments, and practiced sorcery, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he worked much evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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.

⁷He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever:

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

⁸neither will I any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law and the statutes and the ordinances given by Moses.”

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

⁹Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel did.

¹⁰Jehovha akataura naManase navanhu vake; asi havana kuteerera.

¹⁰Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed.

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

¹¹Therefore Yahweh brought on them the captains of the army of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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

¹²When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

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

¹³He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was 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.

¹⁴Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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

¹⁵He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Yahweh, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of the house of Yahweh, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

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

¹⁶He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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

¹⁷Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh 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.

¹⁸Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, behold, they are written among the acts 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.

¹⁹His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

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

²⁰So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place.

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

²¹Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.

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

²²He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed to all the engraved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

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

²³He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

²⁴Varanda vake vakarangana vakamumukira, vakamuuraya mumba make.

²⁴His servants conspired 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.

²⁵But the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.