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472 Fourth Book of Kings

8 And I will no more make the feet of Israel to 18 And Manasses slept with his fathers, and
be moved out of the land, which I gave to their was buried in the garden of his own house, in
fathers: only if they will observe to do all that the garden of Oza: and Amon, his son, reigned
I have commanded them, according to the law in his stead.
which my servant Moses commanded them. 19 Two and twenty years old was Amon when
9 But they hearkened not: but were seduced he began to reign, and he reigned two years in
by Manasses, to do evil more than the nations Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Mes-
which the Lord destroyed before the children of salemeth, the daughter of Harus, of Jeteba.
Israel. 20 And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, as
10 And the Lord spoke in the hand of his ser- Manasses, his father, had done.
vants, the prophets, saying: 21 And he walked in all the way in which his
11 Because Manasses, king of Juda, hath done father had walked: and he served the abomina-
these most wicked abominations, beyond all that tions which his father had served, and he adored
the Amorrhites did before him, and hath made them.
Juda also to sin with his filthy doings: 22 And forsook the Lord, the God of his fa-
12 Therefore thus saith the Lord, the God thers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.
of Israel: Behold, I will bring on evils upon 23 And his servants plotted against him, and
Jerusalem and Juda: that whosoever shall hear slew the king in his own house.
of them, both his ears shall tingle. 24 But the people of the land slew all them
13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of that had conspired against king Amon: and
Samaria, and the weight of the house of Achab: made Josias, his son, their king in his stead.
and I will efface Jerusalem, as writings tables are 25 But the rest of the acts of Amon, which
wont to be effaced, and I will erase and turn it, he did, are they not written in the book of the
and draw the pencil often over the face thereof. words of the days of the kings of Juda?
14 And I will leave the remnants of my inher-
26 And they buried him in his sepulchre, in
itance, and will deliver them into the hands of the garden of Oza: and his son, Josias, reigned
their enemies: and they shall become a prey, and
in his stead.
a spoil to all their enemies.
15 Because they have done evil before me, and
have continued to provoke me, from the day that Chapter 22
their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this
day. Josias was eight years old when he began to
16 Moreover, Manasses shed also very much reign: he reigned one and thirty years in
innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Idida,
the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made the daughter of Hadaia, of Besecath.
Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord. 2 And he did that which was right in the sight
17 Now the rest of the acts of Manasses, and of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David,
all that he did, and his sin, which he sinned, are his father: he turned not aside to the right hand,
they not written in the book of the words of the or to the left.
days of the kings of Juda? 3 And in the eighteenth year of king Josias,