Anden Kongebog 21

¹ Manasse var tolv År gammel, da han blev Konge, og han herskede fem og halvtredsindstyve År i Jerusalem. Hans Moder hed Hefziba.

¹ Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hephzibah.

³ Han byggede atter de Offerhøje, som hans Fader Ezekias havde ødelagt, rejste Altre for Ba'al, lavede en Asjerastøtte, ligesom Kong Akab af Israel havde gjort, og tilbad og dyrkede hele Himmelens Hær.

³ For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

⁵ Og han byggede Altre for hele Himmelens Hær i begge HERRENs Hus's Forgårde.

⁵ For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

⁷ Den Asjerastøtte, han lod lave, opstillede han i det Hus, om bvilket HERREN havde sagt til David og hans Søn Salomo: "I dette Hus og i Jerusalem, som jeg har udvalgt af alle Israels Stammer, vil jeg stedfæste mit Navn til evig Tid;

⁷ Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

⁹ Men de vilde ikke høre, og Manasse forførte dem til at handle værre end de Folkeslag, HERREN havde udryddet foran Israeliterne.

⁹ But they did not listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.

¹¹ "Efterdi Kong Manasse af Juda har øvet disse Vederstyggeligheder, ja øvet Ting, som er værre end alt, hvad Amoriterne, der var før ham. øvede, og tillige ved sine Afgudsbilleder har forledt Juda til Synd,

¹¹ “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, having done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and has also made Judah sin with his idols;

¹³ Jeg vil trække samme Målesnor over Jerusalem som over Samaria og bruge samme Lod som ved Akabs Hus; jeg vil afviske Jerusalem, som man afvisker et Fad og vender det om;

¹³ I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.

¹⁵ fordi de gjorde, hvad der var ondt i mine Øjne, og krænkede mig, lige fra den Dag deres Fædre drog ud af Ægypten og indtil i Dag!"

¹⁵ because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.’”

¹⁷ Hvad der ellers er at fortælle om Manasse, alt, hvad han udførte, og den Synd, han begik, står jo optegnet i Judas Kongers Krønike.

¹⁷ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin which he committed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

¹⁹ Amon var to og tyve År gammel, da han blev Konge, og han herskede to År i Jerusalem. Hans Moder hed Mesjullemet og var en Datter af Haruz fra Jotba.

¹⁹ Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

²¹ han vandrede nøje i sin Faders Spor og dyrkede Afgudsbillederne, som hans Fader havde dyrket, og tilbad dem;

²¹ For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.

²³ Amons Folk sammensvor sig imod ham og dræbte Kongen i hans

²³ The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.

²⁵ Hvad der ellers er at fortælle om Amon, og hvad han udførte, står jo optegnet i Judas Kongers Krønike.

²⁵ Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?