Second Book of Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 1005

the Evmz-Lrvxucs. like the abominable heathen, whom the Evmz-uvmc had driven out from before the children of Israel, and went and rebuilt the monuds that Hezekiah his father had overturned, and raised alters to Baiim, and made Lust·b0oths,-and bowed to all the Host of the skies, and served them. He also built altars in the House of the Loan, where the Even-1.1vmG had said to jerusalem, Hrs NAMB should be for ever! Yes l He built alters to all the Host

of the skies, in the Second Court of the House of the EVER-L1v1NGl He, himself, also, passed his children to the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinom! and to clouds, and snakes, and incan-· tations; and practised necromancy with ventriloquists; and did much evil in the sight of the EVER-x..1v1NG, to provoke Him. He also placed an Image of the Imagination which he had formed, in the House of Gon; of which Gon had said to David, and In this House, and in jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the Tribes of Israel, to fix My NAME for ever. And I will not again turn the foot of Israel oil from the ground that I appointed for their fathers ;·-if only they will practise all that I directed them, and all My Laws, and Institutions, and Decrees by the hand of Moses. (677 ac.) 9 Yet Manasseh seduced judea, and the inhabitants of }e1·usalem, to practise depravity more than the Heathen whom the Evnmnxvme wasted before the face of the Chil-

ro dren of Israel. The Evan-mvmc, II I2 however, spoke to Manasseh and to his people, but they would not lis— ten. Consequently the EVER-LIVING brought upon them the Generals of the Army of the Kings of Ashur, who took Manasseh with hooks, and chained him in chains,,:-md trans- ferred him to Babel, when in his distress he appeased the anger of the Evamtxvxnc Gon, and humbled himself very greatly before the GOD of his fathers, and prayed to Him, Who pitied, and listened. to his sup- lem, to his Kin gship. Then Manasseh acknowledged that the Evnn·1.1vmc was GOD. Qumran}; Qzpznts his Qpnstuzg, aut ilzzturzs $¤b’¤‘M¤r¤bip. After that he built an outer wall to

the City of David, alongside of the brook Ghihon, and extending to the Fish~gate, and around the hill, and it was very high. He also placed Mili- tary Ohicers in all the Fortitied Cities of judea; and threw out the foreign Gods, and the Image from the House of the Evnnaxvmo, and all the altars he had built on the Hill of the LoRD’s House, and in jerusalem, and iiung them out of the City. Then he rebuilt the Altar of the Evan-Livxms, and sacrihced upon it’I`hank-offerings, and confessed, and promised to the Evmz-uvinc, to serve the Lxvme GOD of Israel. However, the people still sacrihced at the Mounds, but only to the Evan-mvxnc Gon. §u¤u:mrg of his iii:. But the other acts of Manasseh,

and his prayer to his GOD, and the speeches of the Seers, who addressed him in the Name of the Lxvmc Gon of Israel, can be seen in the Histories of the Kings of Israel, with his prayer, and the pity shown him, with all his sins and wickedness, and the places in which he built mounds, and set up Lust··booths and Idols before he repented, can be read as recorded in the Books of the Seers. (641 ac.) At last Manasseh slept with his

fathers, and they buried him in his own Palace, and Amon his son reigned in his place. Quran hrgius tn ilzigxt. Amon was twenty—two years old at

his coronation, and reigned two years in jerusalem, and did evil in the siiht of the Even~1.1vn~:o, as Manasseh is father had done; and to all the Idols that his father had made Amon sacri- ficed and served. And he never repented before the EVER-LIVING, as his father Manasseh repented ; but Amon himself offended more. inc: 16 18 21 22