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| 2nd-Kings 21:1 | Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzibah. | | Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king; for fifty-five years he was ruling in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Hephzi-bah. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:2 | And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, like the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel. | | He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of those nations whom the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:3 | And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars to Baal and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. | | He put up again the high places which had been pulled down by Hezekiah his father; he made altars for Baal, and an Asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done; he was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:4 | And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. | | And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:5 | And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah. | | And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:6 | And he caused his son to pass through the fire, and used magic and divination, and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger. | | And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:7 | And he set the graven image of the Asherah that he had made, in the house of which Jehovah had 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 for ever; | | He put the image of Asherah which he had made in the house of which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name for ever. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:8 | neither will I any more cause the foot of Israel to wander away from the land that I gave their fathers; if they will only take heed to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them. | | And never again will I send the feet of Israel wandering from the land which I gave to their fathers; if only they will take care to do all my orders, and keep all the law which my servant Moses gave them. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:9 | But they would not hearken, and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel. | | But they did not give ear; and Manasseh made them do more evil than those nations did, whom the Lord gave up to destruction before the children of Israel. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:10 | And Jehovah spoke by his servants the prophets saying, | | And the Lord said, by his servants the prophets, |
| 2nd-Kings 21:11 | Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols; | | Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods, |
| 2nd-Kings 21:12 | therefore thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. | | For this cause, says the Lord, the God of Israel, I will send such evil on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of all to whom the news comes will be burning. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:13 | And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a pan, wiping it and turning it upside down. | | And over Jerusalem will be stretched the line of Samaria and the weight of Ahab; Jerusalem will be washed clean as a plate is washed, and turned over on its face. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:14 | And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies; | | And I will put away from me the rest of my heritage, and give them up into the hands of their haters, who will take their property and their goods for themselves; |
| 2nd-Kings 21:15 | because they have done evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day. | | Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:16 | And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem [with it] from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah. | | More than this, Manasseh took the lives of upright men, till Jerusalem from one end to the other was full of blood; in addition to his sin in making Judah do evil in the eyes of the Lord. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:17 | And the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | | Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all he did, and his sins, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? |
| 2nd-Kings 21:18 | And 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 stead. | | So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the garden of his house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son became king in his place. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:19 | Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Meshullemeth, daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. | | Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:20 | And he did evil in the sight of Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had done; | | He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:21 | and he walked in all the way that his father had walked in, and served the idols that his father had served, and worshipped them; | | He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant; |
| 2nd-Kings 21:22 | and he forsook Jehovah the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Jehovah. | | Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:23 | And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. | | And the servants of Amon made a secret design against him, and put the king to death in his house. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:24 | But the people of the land smote all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead. | | But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place. |
| 2nd-Kings 21:25 | And the rest of the acts of Amon, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? | | Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? |
| 2nd-Kings 21:26 | And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. | | He was put in his last resting-place in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son became king in his place. |
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