The Koine Bible

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem

And he did the evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominations of the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.

And he turned back and built the high places that Hezekiah his father had torn down, and he set up pillars for the Baals and made sacred groves and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them

And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem my name shall be forever.

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

And he passed his children through the fire in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and he practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery and made ventriloquists and incantations to abound, to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him to anger

And he set the carved and the molten image, the image which he made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

and I will not again cause the foot of Israel to shake from the land which I gave to their fathers, only if they keep to do all that I commanded them, according to all the law and the ordinances and the judgments, by the hand of Moses

And Manasseh led astray Judah and those dwelling in Jerusalem, so as to do the evil more than all the nations whom the Lord had removed from before the sons of Israel.

And the Lord spoke concerning Manasseh and concerning his people, and they did not listen.

And the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, and they seized Manasseh in chains and bound him in fetters and brought him to Babylon

And when he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God, and he humbled himself greatly before the face of the God of his fathers.

And he prayed to him, and he listened to him and heard his cry and brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom, and Manasseh knew that the Lord, he is God.

And after these things he built a wall outside the city of David, from the south against Gihon in the ravine, and as they went out through the gate around, and to Ophel, and he raised it very high, and he appointed commanders of the force in all the walled cities of Judah.

And he took away the foreign gods and the carved image from the house of the Lord and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem and outside the city

And he restored the altar of the Lord and sacrificed on it a sacrifice of salvation and of praise, and he said to Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel

Nevertheless the people still on the high places, except the Lord their God

And the rest of the words of Manasseh, and his prayer to God, and the words of the seers speaking to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, behold, among the words

of his prayer, and how he was heard, and all his sins and his acts of rebellion, and the places on which he built the high places and set up groves there and carved images, before he turned back, behold, they are written in the words of the seers

And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the garden of his house; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem

And he did the evil thing before the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done; and to all the idols which Manasseh his father had made, Amon sacrificed and served them.

And he was not humbled before the Lord as Manasseh his father was humbled, because his son Amon increased trespass.

And his servants conspired against him and struck him in his house.

And the people of the land struck the men who had risen against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.