4 Kingdoms 21

Old Testament · Brenton Septuagint with Greek parallel

4 Kingdoms 21

1* Manasses was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Apsiba.Υἱὸς δώδεκα ἐτῶν Μανασσὴς ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτόν, καὶ πεντήκοντα καὶ πέντε ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἰερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Ἁψιβά.

2And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.Καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου, κατὰ τὰ βδελύγματα τῶν ἐθνῶν ὧν ἐξῆρε Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπον τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.

3And he † built again the high places, which Ezekias his father had demolished; and ‡ set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel made them; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.Καὶ ἐπέστρεψε καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε τὰ ὑψηλὰ ἃ κατέσπασεν Ἑζεκίας ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνέστησε θυσιαστήριον τῇ Βάαλ, καὶ ἐποίησε τὰ ἄλση καθὼς ἐποίησεν Ἀχαὰβ βασιλεὺς Ἰσραήλ, καὶ προσεκύνησε πάσῃ τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἐδούλευσεν αὐτοῖς.

4And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name.Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε θυσιαστήριον ἐν ὄκῳ Κυρίου, ὡς εἶπεν, ἐν Ἰερουσάλὴμ θήσω τὸ ὄνομά μου.

5And he built an altar to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.Καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε θυσιαστήριον πάσῃ τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐν ταῖς δυσὶν αὐλαῖς οἴκου Κυρίου.

6And he caused his sons to pass through the fire, and used divination and auspices, and made § groves, and multiplied ** wizards, so as to do that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.Καὶ διῆγε τοὺς υἱοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐν πυρί, καὶ ἐκληδονίζετο καὶ οἰωνίζετο, καὶ ἐποίησε τεμένη, καὶ γνώστας ἐπλήθυνε τοῦ ποιεῖν τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου παροργίσαι αὐτόν.

7And he set up the graven image of the grove in the house of which the Lord 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 even place my name for ever.Καὶ ἔθηκε τὸ γλυπτὸν τοῦ ἄλσους ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ᾧ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Δαυὶδ καὶ πρὸς Σαλωμὼν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ καὶ ἐν Ἰερουσαλὴμ ᾗ ἐξελεξάμην ἐκ πασῶν φυλῶν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ θήσω τὸ ὄνομά μου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα,

8And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, even of those who shall keep all that I commanded, according to all the commandments which my servant Moses commanded them.καὶ οὐ προσθήσω τοῦ σαλεῦσαι τὸν πόδα Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἧς ἔδωκα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, οἵ τινες φυλάξουσι πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν ἐντολὴν ἣν ἐνετείλατο αὐτοῖς ὁ δοῦλός μου Μωυσῆς.

9But they listened not; and Manasses led them astray to do evil in the sight of the Lord, beyond the nations whom the Lord utterly destroyed from before the children of Israel.Καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσαν, καὶ ἐπλάνησεν αὐτοὺς Μανασσῆς τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου ὑπὲρ τὰ ἔθνη, ἃ ἠθάνισε Κύριος ἐκ προσώπου υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ.

10And the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying,Καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος ἐν χειρὶ δούλων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν, λέγων,

11Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before him, and has led Juda also into sin by their idols,ἀνθʼ ὧν ὅσα ἐποίησε Μανασσῆς ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰούδα τὰ βδελύγματα ταῦτα τὰ πονηρὰ ἀπὸ πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἀμοῤῥαῖος ὁ ἔμπροσθεν, καὶ ἐξήμαρτε καί γε Ἰούδαν ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτῶν,

12it shall not be so. Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I bring calamities upon Jerusalem and Juda, so that both the ears of every one that hears shall †† tingle.οὐχ οὕτως· τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραήλ, ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ φέρω κακὰ ἐπὶ Ἰερουσαλὴμ καὶ Ἰούδαν, ὥστε παντὸς ἀκούοντος ἠχήσει ἀμφότερα τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ·

13And I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Achaab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a jar is wiped, and turned upside down in the wiping.Καὶ ἐκτενῶ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ τὸ μέτρον Σαμαρείας καὶ τὸ στάθμιον οἴκου Ἀχαάβ· καὶ ἀπαλείψω τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καθὼς ἀπαλείφεται ὁ ἀλάβαστρος ἀπαλειφόμενος καὶ καταστρέφεται ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ.

14And I will reject the remnant of my inheritance, and will deliver them into the hands of their enemies; and they shall be for a plunder and for a spoil to all their enemies:Καὶ ἀπεώσομαι τὸ ὑπόλειμμα τῆς κληρονομίας μου, καὶ παραδώσω αὐτοὺς εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔσονται εἰς διαρπαγὴν καὶ εἰς προνομὴν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς αὐτῶν,

15forasmuch as they have done wickedly in my sight, and have provoked me from the day that I brought out their fathers out of Egypt, even until this day.ἀνθʼ ὧν ὅσα ἐποίησαν τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς μου, καὶ ἦσαν παροργίζοντές με ἀπὸ τῆς ἡμέρας ἧς ἐξήγαγον τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἕως τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης.

16Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem with it ‡‡ from one end to the other, beside his sins with which he caused Juda to sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord.Καί γε αἷμα ἀθῶον ἐξέχεε Μανασσῆς πολὺ σφόδρα ἕως οὗ ἔπλησε τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ στόμα εἰς στόμα, πλὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν αὐτοῦ ὧν ἐξήμαρτε τὸν Ἰούδαν τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου.

17And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?Καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Μανασσῆ καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησε, καὶ ἡ ἁμαρτία αὐτοῦ ἣν ἥμαρτεν, οὐχὶ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν Ἰούδα;

18And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, even in the garden of Oza: and Amos his son reigned in his stead.Καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Μανασσὴς μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν τῷ κήπῳ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ ἐν κήπῳ Ὀζά· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀμὼς υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ.

19Twenty and two years old was Amos when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Mesollam, daughter of Arus of Jeteba.Υἱὸς εἴκοσι καὶ δύο ἐτῶν Ἀμὼς ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτόν, καὶ δύο ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Μεσολλάμ, θυγάτηρ Ἀροὺς ἐξ Ἰετέβα.

20And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father did.Καὶ ἐποίησε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου καθὼς ἐποίησε Μανασσὴς, ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ.

21And he walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshipped them.Καὶ ἐπορεύθη ἐν πάσῃ ὁδῷ ᾗ ἐπορεύθη ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλάτρευσε τοῖς εἰδώλοις οἷς ἐλάτρευσεν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ προσεκύνησεν αὐτοῖς.

22And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord.Καὶ ἐγκατέλιπε τὸν Κύριον Θεὸν τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἐπορεύθη ἐν ὁδῷ Κυρίου.

23And the servants of Amos conspired against him, and killed the king in his house.Καὶ συνεστράφησαν οἱ παῖδες Ἀμὼς πρὸς αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐθανάτωσαν τὸν βασιλέα ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ.

24And the people of the land §§ killed all that had conspired against king Amos; and the people of the land made Josias king in his room.Καὶ ἐπάταξεν ὁ λαὸς τῆς γῆς πάντας τοὺς συστραφέντας ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ἀμώς, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ λαὸς τῆς γῆς τὸν Ἰωσίαν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ.

25And the rest of the acts of Amos, even all that he did, behold, are not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda?Καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Ἀμὼς ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖς βασιλεῦσιν Ἰούδα;

26And they buried him in his tomb in the garden of Oza: and Josias his son reigned in his stead.Καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν ἑν τῷ τάφῳ αὐτοῦ ἑν τῷ κήτῳ Ὀζά, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰωσίας υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντʼ αὐτοῦ.

Translator's Notes

These notes come from the printed edition of Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX), and record where the Greek differs from the English rendering or admits more than one reading.

• v. 1*Gr. a son of 12 years in his reigning.
• v. 3†Gr. returned and built.
• v. 3‡Or. built.
• v. 6§Lit. peculiar places cut off.
• v. 6**Alex. θελητὴν.
• v. 12††Gr. sound.
• v. 16‡‡Gr. mouth to mouth.
• v. 24§§Gr. struck.