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Bagian: Manasye menjadi raja atas kerajaan Yehuda

1 Manasye naik takhta pada umur dua belas tahun dan memerintah selama lima puluh lima tahun. Ibukotanya di Yerusalem. Ibunya bernama Hefsiba. 2 Raja Manasye melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN. Dia mengikuti cara hidup yang najis dari bangsa-bangsa Kanaan yang telah diusir TUHAN ketika Israel memasuki negeri itu. 3 Dia membangun kembali tempat-tempat pemujaan di bukit-bukit yang sudah dihancurkan Hiskia, ayahnya. Manasye mendirikan patung dewi Asyera dan mezbah-mezbah untuk menyembah Baal, sama seperti Ahab, raja Israel. Dia juga menyembah matahari, bulan, dan bintang-bintang. 4 Di rumah TUHAN, dia membuat mezbah-mezbah untuk berbagai dewa, padahal rumah itu telah dikhususkan TUHAN sebagai pusat penyembahan bagi diri-Nya. 5 Manasye membangun mezbah tersebut di halaman dalam dan halaman luar rumah TUHAN untuk mempersembahkan kurban kepada semua dewa penguasa langit. 6 Dia meminta ramalan dari tukang sihir, memakai jimat, meminta petunjuk dari pemanggil arwah, bahkan membakar anak laki-lakinya sebagai kurban. Begitu besar kejahatan Manasye di mata TUHAN sehingga bangkitlah amarah-Nya. 7 Manasye meletakkan patung Asyera buatannya di rumah TUHAN. Padahal tentang rumah itu TUHAN pernah berkata kepada Daud dan Salomo,
“Kota Yerusalem dan rumah ini telah Aku pilih dari antara semua suku Israel sebagai pusat penyembahan kepada-Ku. 8 Apabila umat Israel menaati semua perintah-Ku, yaitu seluruh hukum yang sudah Aku sampaikan melalui hamba-Ku Musa, Aku tidak akan membiarkan mereka tersingkir dari negeri yang telah Aku berikan kepada nenek moyang mereka.” 9 Tetapi bangsa itu tidak taat. Terlebih lagi, Manasye menjerumuskan mereka untuk berbuat lebih jahat daripada bangsa-bangsa Kanaan yang sudah TUHAN musnahkan sewaktu orang Israel memasuki negeri itu. 10 Jadi berkatalah TUHAN kepada umat-Nya melalui para nabi, 11 “Karena Manasye telah melakukan hal-hal menjijikkan yang lebih jahat daripada bangsa Amori sebelumnya, juga menjerumuskan rakyat Yehuda ke dalam dosa penyembahan berhala, 12 maka Aku, TUHAN, Allah Israel, akan mendatangkan malapetaka atas Yerusalem dan Yehuda. Begitu mengerikan malapetaka itu hingga saat mendengarnya saja, setiap orang akan terkejut dan merasa ngeri. 13 Yerusalem akan Aku hukum dengan hukuman yang sama seperti Samaria dan keluarga Ahab. Aku akan menyapu bersih penduduknya. Yerusalem akan seperti piring yang dicuci, dilap, lalu dibalik. 14 Umat-Ku yang masih tersisa akan Aku serahkan kepada musuh-musuh mereka untuk ditindas dan dijarah, 15 karena sejak zaman nenek moyang mereka keluar dari Mesir, bangsa ini terus saja melakukan apa yang jahat di mata-Ku dan membangkitkan amarah-Ku.” 16 Lagipula, selain menyembah berhala dan menjerumuskan rakyat Yehuda ke dalam kejahatan tersebut, Manasye juga banyak membunuh orang yang tak bersalah hingga kota Yerusalem seakan penuh dengan darah dari ujung ke ujung. 17 Kisah selebihnya tentang Raja Manasye, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya serta dosa-dosanya, semua itu dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Yehuda. 18 Manasye meninggal dunia dan dikuburkan di Taman Uza, yaitu taman istananya. Lalu Amon, anaknya, menggantikan dia sebagai raja.

Bagian: Amon menjadi raja atas kerajaan Yehuda

19 Amon naik takhta pada umur dua puluh dua tahun. Dia memerintah selama dua tahun. Ibukotanya di Yerusalem. Ibunya bernama Mesulemet anak Harus, dari kota Yotba. 20 Dia melakukan apa yang jahat di mata TUHAN seperti Manasye. 21 Amon mengikuti cara hidup ayahnya itu dengan menyembah dewa-dewa sembahan Manasye. 22 Dia meninggalkan TUHAN, Allah nenek moyangnya, dan tidak menaati perintah-perintah-Nya. 23 Suatu kali, sejumlah pejabat Raja Amon bersekongkol lalu membunuh dia di istananya. 24 Tetapi rakyat Yehuda bersepakat menghukum mati para pembunuh raja itu. Rakyat juga sepakat untuk mengangkat Yosia anak Amon menjadi raja menggantikan dia. 25 Kisah selebihnya tentang Amon, termasuk tindakan-tindakan yang diambilnya, dicatat dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Yehuda. 26 Amon dikuburkan di Taman Uza. Lalu Yosia, anaknya, menggantikan dia sebagai raja.

1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah. 2 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he raised up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel did, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served them. 4 He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.” 5 He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of Yahweh’s house. 6 He made his son to pass through the fire, practiced sorcery, used enchantments, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger. 7 He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh 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, I will put my name forever; 8 I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.” 9 But they didn’t listen, and Manasseh seduced them to do that which is evil more than the nations did whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel. 10 Yahweh spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, 11 “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, and has done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has also made Judah to sin with his idols; 12 therefore Yahweh the God of Israel says, ‘Behold, I will bring such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that whoever hears of it, both his ears will tingle. 13 I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plumb line of Ahab’s house; and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down. 14 I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. They will become a prey and a plunder to all their enemies, 15 because they have done that which is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’” 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight. 17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 18 Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place. 19 Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. 20 He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, as Manasseh his father did. 21 He walked in all the ways that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshiped them; 22 and he abandoned Yahweh, the God of his fathers, and didn’t walk in the way of Yahweh. 23 The servants of Amon conspired against him, and put the king to death in his own house. 24 But 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. 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 26 He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.