犹大王玛拿西
1玛拿西十二岁登基，在耶路撒冷执政五十五年。 2他做耶和华视为恶的事，效法耶和华在以色列人面前赶走的外族人的可憎行径。 3他重建他父亲希西迦拆毁的丘坛，为巴力筑造祭坛，制造亚舍拉神像，并祭拜和供奉天上的万象。 4耶和华曾指着祂的殿说：“我的名必永远在耶路撒冷，”他却在耶和华的殿内建造异教的祭坛。 5他在耶和华殿的两个院子里为天上万象建造祭坛。 6他还在欣嫩子谷把自己的儿子烧死，献作祭物。他行邪术、占卜、观兆，求问灵媒和巫师，做了许多耶和华视为恶的事，惹耶和华发怒。 7他雕刻神像，放在上帝的殿中。关于这殿，上帝曾对大卫和他儿子所罗门说：“我从以色列各支派中选择了这殿和耶路撒冷，我的名要永远立在这里。 8只要以色列人谨遵我借着摩西颁给他们的一切法度、律例和典章，我就不再把他们从我赐给他们祖先的土地上赶走。” 9玛拿西诱使犹大人和耶路撒冷的居民作恶，比耶和华在以色列人面前所毁灭的各族更严重。
玛拿西悔改
10耶和华警告玛拿西和他的百姓，他们却不肯听从。 11所以，耶和华就差遣亚述王的将领来攻击他们，他们捉住玛拿西，把他用钩子钩着、用铜链锁着押往巴比伦。 12在困苦中，玛拿西祈求他的上帝耶和华的帮助，并且在他祖先的上帝面前极其谦卑。 13耶和华应允他的祷告，垂听他的恳求，使他返回耶路撒冷继续做王。玛拿西这才明白耶和华是上帝。
14这事以后，玛拿西重建大卫城的外墙，从谷中基训泉的西边直到鱼门口，环绕俄斐勒，筑高城墙。他又派将领驻扎犹大各坚城。 15玛拿西将偶像和外族人的神像从耶和华的殿中除去，又把他在圣殿山和耶路撒冷筑造的一切祭坛全部拆掉，扔在城外。 16他重建耶和华的祭坛，在上面献平安祭和感恩祭，又吩咐犹大人事奉以色列的上帝耶和华。 17然而，众人仍然在丘坛献祭，只是献给他们的上帝耶和华。
玛拿西逝世
18玛拿西其他的事、他向上帝的祷告和先见奉以色列的上帝耶和华的名对他说的话，都记在《以色列列王史》上。 19他的祷告，上帝的答复，他在谦卑下来之前的罪恶和不忠，他在哪里修筑丘坛以及设立亚舍拉神像和其他偶像的事，都记在《先知书》33:19 《先知书》或译《何赛的书》。上。 20玛拿西与祖先同眠后，葬在宫内，他儿子亚们继位。
亚们做犹大王
21亚们二十二岁登基，在耶路撒冷执政两年。 22亚们像他父亲玛拿西一样做耶和华视为恶的事。他祭拜和供奉他父亲玛拿西制造的一切偶像。 23可是，亚们没有像他父亲玛拿西一样在耶和华面前谦卑下来。相反，他犯的罪越来越多。 24他的臣仆谋反，在王宫里杀了他。 25民众杀死那些背叛亚们王的人，让他儿子约西亚接续他做王。
Manasseh King of Judah
1Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. 2He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. 3He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them. 4He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” 5In both courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts. 6He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.
7He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever. 8I will not again make the feet of the Israelites leave the land I assigned to your ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I commanded them concerning all the laws, decrees and regulations given through Moses.” 9But Manasseh led Judah and the people of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
10The Lord spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. 11So the Lord brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh prisoner, put a hook in his nose, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon. 12In his distress he sought the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors. 13And when he prayed to him, the Lord was moved by his entreaty and listened to his plea; so he brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord is God.
14Afterward he rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David, west of the Gihon spring in the valley, as far as the entrance of the Fish Gate and encircling the hill of Ophel; he also made it much higher. He stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities in Judah.
15He got rid of the foreign gods and removed the image from the temple of the Lord, as well as all the altars he had built on the temple hill and in Jerusalem; and he threw them out of the city. 16Then he restored the altar of the Lord and sacrificed fellowship offerings and thank offerings on it, and told Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. 17The people, however, continued to sacrifice at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
18The other events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the seers spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are written in the annals of the kings of Israel.33:18 That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles 19His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself—all these are written in the records of the seers.33:19 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts of Hozai 20Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in his palace. And Amon his son succeeded him as king.
Amon King of Judah
21Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. 22He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon worshiped and offered sacrifices to all the idols Manasseh had made. 23But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.
24Amon’s officials conspired against him and assassinated him in his palace. 25Then the people of the land killed all who had plotted against King Amon, and they made Josiah his son king in his place.
