Liber II Regum, 21

1. duodecim annorum erat Manasses cum regnare cœpisset et quinquaginta quinque annis regnavit in Hierusalem nomen matris ejus Aphsiba

1. Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Haphsiba.

2. fecitque malum in conspectu Domini juxta idola gentium quas delevit Dominus a facie filiorum Israël

2. And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the idols of the nations, which the Lord destroyed from before the face of the children of Israel.

3. conversusque est et ædificavit excelsa quæ dissipaverat Ezechias pater ejus et erexit aras Baal et fecit lucos sicut fecerat Ahab rex Israël et adoravit omnem militiam cæli et coluit eam

3. And he turned, and built up the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab the king of Israel had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

4. extruxitque aras in domo Domini de qua dixit Dominus in Hierusalem ponam nomen meum

4. And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

5. et extruxit altaria universæ militiæ cæli in duobus atriis templi Domini

5. And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the temple of the Lord.

6. et transduxit filium suum per ignem et ariolatus est et observavit auguria et fecit pythones et aruspices multiplicavit ut faceret malum coram Domino et inritaret eum

6. And he made his son pass through fire: and he used divination, and observed omens, and appointed pythons, and multiplied soothsayers to do evil before the Lord, and to provoke him.

7. posuit quoque idolum luci quem fecerat in templo Domini super quo locutus est Dominus ad David et ad Salomonem filium ejus in templo hoc et in Hierusalem quam elegi de cunctis tribubus Israël ponam nomen meum in sempiternum

7. He set also an idol of the grove, which he had made, in the temple of the Lord: concerning which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son: In this temple, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever.

8. et ultra non faciam commoveri pedem Israël de terra quam dedi patribus eorum sic tamen si custodierint opere omnia quæ præcepi eis et universam legem quam mandavit eis servus meus Moses

8. And I will no more make the feet of Israel to be moved out of the land, which I gave to their fathers: only if they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to the law which my servant Moses commanded them.

9. illi vero non audierunt sed seducti sunt a Manasse ut facerent malum super gentes quas contrivit Dominus a facie filiorum Israël

9. But they hearkened not: but were seduced by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations which the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.

10. locutusque est Dominus in manu servorum suorum prophetarum dicens

10. And the Lord spoke in the hand of his servants, the prophets, saying:

11. quia fecit Manasses rex Juda abominationes istas pessimas super omnia quæ fecerunt Amorrei ante eum et peccare fecit etiam Judam in inmunditiis suis

11. Because Manasses king of Juda hath done these most wicked abominations, beyond all that the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made Juda also to sin with his filthy doings:

12. propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël ecce ego inducam mala super Hierusalem et Judam ut quicumque audierit tinniant ambæ aures ejus

12. Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Behold I will bring on evils upon Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear of them, both his ears shall tingle.

13. et extendam super Hierusalem funiculum Samariæ et pondus domus Ahab et delebo Hierusalem sicut deleri solent tabulæ delens vertam et ducam crebrius stilum super faciem ejus

13. And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: and I will efface Jerusalem, as tables are wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, and draw the pencil often over the face thereof.

14. dimittam vero reliquias hereditatis meæ et tradam eas in manu inimicorum ejus eruntque in vastitate et rapina cunctis adversariis suis

14. And I will leave the remnants of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and a spoil to all their enemies.

15. eo quod fecerint malum coram me et perseveraverint inritantes me ex die qua egressi sunt patres eorum ex Ægypto usque ad diem hanc

15. Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

16. insuper et sanguinem innoxium fudit Manasses multum nimis donec impleret Hierusalem usque ad os absque peccatis suis quibus peccare fecit Judam ut faceret malum coram Domino

16. Moreover Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

17. reliqua autem sermonum Manasse et universa quæ fecit et peccatum ejus quod peccavit nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro sermonum dierum regum Juda

17. Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, end his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

18. dormivitque Manasses cum patribus suis et sepultus est in horto domus suæ in horto Aza et regnavit Amon filius ejus pro eo

18. And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Oza: and Amen his son reigned in his stead.

19. viginti et duo annorum erat Amon cum regnare cœpisset duobusque annis regnavit in Hierusalem nomen matris ejus Mesallemeth filia Arus de Jethba

19. Two and twenty years old was Amen when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Messalemeth the daughter of Harus of Jeteba.

20. fecitque malum in conspectu Domini sicut fecerat Manasses pater ejus

20. And he did evil in the sight, of the Lord, as Manasses his father had done.

21. et ambulavit in omni via per quam ambulaverat pater ejus servivitque inmunditiis quibus servierat pater suus et adoravit eas

21. And he walked in all the way in which his father had walked: and he served the abominations which his father had served, and he adored them;

22. et dereliquit Dominum Deum patrum suorum et non ambulavit in via Domini

22. And forsook the Lord the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.

23. tetenderuntque ei insidias servi sui et interfecerunt regem in domo sua

23. And his servants plotted against him, and slew the king in his own house.

24. percussit autem populus terræ omnes qui coniuraverant contra regem Amon et constituerunt sibi regem Josiam filium ejus pro eo

24. But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amen: and made Josias his son their king in his stead.

25. reliqua autem sermonum Amon quæ fecit nonne hæc scripta sunt in libro sermonum dierum regum Juda

25. But the rest of the acts of Amen which he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?

26. sepelieruntque eum in sepulchro suo in horto Aza et regnavit Josias filius ejus pro eo

26. And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Oza: and his son Josias reigned in his stead.