2 Cronache 33

1Manasse avea dodici anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò cinquantacinque anni a Gerusalemme. 2Egli fece ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno, seguendo le abominazioni delle nazioni che l’Eterno avea cacciate d’innanzi ai figliuoli d’Israele. 3Riedificò gli alti luoghi che Ezechia suo padre avea demoliti, eresse altari ai Baali, fece degl’idoli d’Astarte, e adorò tutto l’esercito del cielo e lo servì. 4Eresse pure degli altari ad altri dèi nella casa dell’Eterno, riguardo alla quale l’Eterno avea detto: "In Gerusalemme sarà in perpetuo il mio nome!" 5Eresse altari a tutto l’esercito del cielo nei due cortili della casa dell’Eterno. 6Fece passare i suoi figliuoli pel fuoco nella valle del figliuolo di Hinnom; si dette alla magia, agl’incantesimi, alla stregoneria, e istituì di quelli che evocavano gli spiriti e predicevan l’avvenire; s’abbandonò interamente a fare ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno, provocandolo ad ira. 7Mise l’immagine scolpita dell’idolo che avea fatto, nella casa di Dio, riguardo alla quale Dio avea detto a Davide e a Salomone suo figliuolo: "In questa casa, e a Gerusalemme, che io ho scelta fra tutte le tribù d’Israele, porrò il mio nome in perpetuo; 8e farò che Israele non muova più il piede dal paese ch’io ho assegnato ai vostri padri, purché essi abbian cura di mettere in pratica tutto quello che ho loro comandato, cioè tutta la legge, i precetti e le prescrizioni, dati per mezzo di Mosè". 9Ma Manasse indusse Giuda e gli abitanti di Gerusalemme a sviarsi, e a far peggio delle nazioni che l’Eterno avea distrutte d’innanzi ai figliuoli d’Israele. 10L’Eterno parlò a Manasse e al suo popolo, ma essi non ne fecero caso. 11Allora l’Eterno fece venire contro di loro i capi dell’esercito del re d’Assiria, che misero Manasse nei ferri; e, legatolo con catene di rame, lo menarono a Babilonia. 12E quand’ei fu in distretta, implorò l’Eterno, il suo Dio, e s’umiliò profondamente davanti all’Iddio de’ suoi padri. 13A lui rivolse le sue preghiere ed egli s’arrese ad esse, esaudì le sue supplicazioni, e lo ricondusse a Gerusalemme nel suo regno. Allora Manasse riconobbe che l’Eterno Dio. 14Dopo questo, Manasse costruì, fuori della città di Davide, a occidente, verso Ghihon nella valle, un muro che si prolungava fino alla porta dei pesci; lo fe’ girare attorno ad Ofel, e lo tirò su a grande altezza; e pose dei capi militari in tutte le città fortificate di Giuda; 15e tolse dalla casa dell’Eterno gli dèi stranieri e l’idolo, abbatté tutti gli altari che aveva costruiti sul monte della casa dell’Eterno e a Gerusalemme, e gettò tutto fuori della città. 16Poi ristabilì l’altare dell’Eterno e v’offrì sopra dei sacrifizi di azioni di grazie e di lode, e ordinò a Giuda che servisse all’Eterno, all’Iddio d’Israele. 17Nondimeno il popolo continuava a offrir sacrifizi sugli alti luoghi; però, soltanto all’Eterno, al suo Dio. 18Il rimanente delle azioni di Manasse, la preghiera che rivolse al suo Dio, e le parole che i veggenti gli rivolsero nel nome dell’Eterno, dell’Iddio d’Israele, son cose scritte nella storia dei re d’Israele. 19E la sua preghiera, e come Dio s’arrese ad essa, tutti i suoi peccati e tutte le sue infedeltà, i luoghi dove costruì degli alti luoghi e pose degli idoli d’Astarte e delle immagini scolpite, prima che si fosse umiliato, sono cose scritte nel libro di Hozai. 20Poi Manasse s’addormentò coi suoi padri, e fu sepolto in casa sua. E Amon, suo figliuolo, regnò in luogo suo. 21Amon avea ventidue anni quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò due anni a Gerusalemme. 22Egli fece ciò ch’è male agli occhi dell’Eterno, come avea fatto Manasse suo padre; offriva sacrifizi a tutte le immagini scolpite fatte da Manasse suo padre, e le serviva. 23Egli non s’umiliò dinanzi all’Eterno, come s’era umiliato Manasse suo padre; anzi Amon si rese sempre più colpevole. 24E i suoi servi ordirono una congiura contro di lui, e lo uccisero in casa sua. 25Ma il popolo del paese mise a morte tutti quelli che avean congiurato contro il re Amon, e fece re, in sua vece, Giosia suo figliuolo.

1Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. 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. 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. 4He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.” 5He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house. 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. 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: 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.” 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. 10Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they gave no heed. 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. 12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 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. 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. 15He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. 16He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving on it, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel. 17Nevertheless the people sacrificed still in the high places, but only to Yahweh their God. 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. 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 Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai. 20So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his place. 21Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. 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. 23He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more. 24His servants conspired against him, and put him to death in his own house. 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.

1Manasse was twaalf jaren oud, als hij koning werd, en regeerde vijf en vijftig jaren te Jeruzalem. 2En hij deed dat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, naar de gruwelen der heidenen, die de HEERE voor het aangezicht der kinderen Israels uit de bezitting verdreven had. 3Want hij bouwde de hoogten weder op, die zijn vader Jehizkia afgebroken had, en richtte den Baals altaren op, en maakte bossen, en boog zich neder voor al het heir des hemels, en diende ze; 4En bouwde altaren in het huis des HEEREN, van hetwelk de HEERE gezegd had: Te Jeruzalem zal Mijn Naam zijn tot in eeuwigheid. 5Daartoe bouwde hij altaren voor al het heir des hemels, in beide de voorhoven van het huis des HEEREN. 6En hij deed zijn zonen door het vuur gaan, in het dal des zoons van Hinnom, en pleegde guichelarij, en gaf op vogelgeschrei acht, en toverde, en hij stelde waarzeggers en duivelskunstenaren; en hij deed zeer veel kwaads in de ogen des HEEREN, om Hem tot toorn te verwekken. 7Hij stelde ook de gelijkenis van een gesneden beeld, die hij gemaakt had, in het huis Gods, van hetwelk God gezegd had tot David en tot zijn zoon Salomo: In dit huis, en te Jeruzalem, dat Ik uit alle stammen van Israel verkoren heb, zal Ik Mijn Naam zetten tot in eeuwigheid. 8En Ik zal den voet van Israel niet meer doen wijken van het land, dat Ik uw vaderen besteld heb; alleenlijk zo zij waarnemen te doen, al hetgeen Ik hun geboden heb, naar de ganse wet, en inzettingen, en rechten, door de hand van Mozes. 9Zo deed Manasse Juda en de inwoners te Jeruzalem dwalen, dat zij erger deden dan de heidenen, die de HEERE voor het aangezicht der kinderen Israels verdelgd had. 10De HEERE sprak wel tot Manasse en tot zijn volk; maar zij merkten daar niet op. 11Daarom bracht de HEERE over hen de krijgsoversten, die de koning van Assyrie had, dewelke Manasse gevangen namen onder de doornen; en zij bonden hem met twee koperen ketenen, en voerden hem naar Babel. 12En als hij hem benauwde, bad hij het aangezicht des HEEREN, zijns Gods, ernstelijk aan, en vernederde zich zeer voor het aangezicht van den God zijner vaderen, 13En bad Hem; en Hij liet Zich van hem verbidden, en hoorde zijn smeking, en Hij bracht hem weder te Jeruzalem, in zijn koninkrijk. Toen erkende Manasse, dat de HEERE God is. 14En na dezen bouwde hij den buitenmuur aan de stad Davids, aan de westzijde van Gihon in het dal, en tot den ingang van de Vispoort, en omsingelde Ofel, en verhief dien zeer; hij legde ook krijgsoversten in alle vaste steden in Juda. 15En hij nam de vreemde goden en die gelijkenis uit het huis des HEEREN weg, mitsgaders al de altaren, die hij gebouwd had op den berg van het huis des HEEREN, en te Jeruzalem; en hij wierp ze buiten de stad. 16En hij richtte het altaar des HEEREN toe, en offerde daarop dankofferen en lofofferen, en zeide tot Juda, dat zij den HEERE, den God Israels, dienen zouden. 17Maar het volk offerde nog op de hoogten, hoewel aan den HEERE, hun God. 18Het overige nu der geschiedenissen van Manasse, en zijn gebed tot zijn God, ook de woorden der zieners, die tot hem gesproken hebben in den Naam van den HEERE, den God Israels, ziet, die zijn in de geschiedenissen der koningen van Israel; 19En zijn gebed, en hoe God Zich van hem heeft laten verbidden, ook al zijn zonde, en zijn overtreding, en de plaatsen, waarop hij hoogten gebouwd, en bossen en gesneden beelden gesteld heeft, eer hij vernederd werd, ziet, dat is beschreven in de woorden der zieners. 20En Manasse ontsliep met zijn vaderen, en zij begroeven hem in zijn huis; en zijn zoon Amon werd koning in zijn plaats. 21Amon was twee en twintig jaren oud, als hij koning werd, en regeerde twee jaren te Jeruzalem. 22En hij deed dat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, gelijk als zijn vader Manasse gedaan had; want Amon offerde al den gesneden beelden, die zijn vader Manasse gemaakt had, en diende ze. 23Maar hij vernederde zich niet voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, gelijk Manasse, zijn vader, zich vernederd had; maar deze Amon vermenigvuldigde de schuld. 24En zijn knechten maakten een verbintenis tegen hem, en doodden hem in zijn huis. 25Maar het volk des lands sloeg hen allen, die de verbintenis tegen den koning Amon gemaakt hadden; en het volk des lands maakte zijn zoon Josia koning in zijn plaats.