# 2 Kings 21

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
2. He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, following the detestable practices of the nations whom Yahweh had driven out before the Israelites.
3. He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. He set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole, as Ahab king of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.
4. He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh had said, “In Jerusalem I will put my name.”
5. He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of the house of Yahweh.
6. He made his son pass through the fire. He practiced fortune-telling and sought omens, and he appointed mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking him to anger.
7. He set the carved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh had said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
8. I will no longer make the feet of Israel wander from the land that I gave to their ancestors, if only they will be careful to do everything I have commanded them, all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
9. But they did not listen. Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations whom Yahweh had destroyed before the Israelites.
10. So Yahweh spoke through his servants the prophets:
11. “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these detestable things, doing more evil than all the Amorites who were before him, and has also led Judah into sin with his idols,
12. therefore this is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that both ears of everyone who hears of it will ring.
13. I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14. I will abandon the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil for all their enemies,
15. because they have done what is evil in my eyes and have kept provoking me to anger from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until this day.”
16. Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from one end to the other. This was besides the sin he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
17. As for the rest of the deeds of Manasseh, all that he did, and the sin that he committed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
18. Manasseh rested with his ancestors and was buried in the garden of his palace, the garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.
19. Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
20. He did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as his father Manasseh had done.
21. He walked in all the ways his father had walked. He served the idols his father had served and bowed down to them.
22. He abandoned Yahweh, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of Yahweh.
23. Amon’s officials conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.
24. But the people of the land struck down all who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
25. As for the rest of the deeds of Amon and what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
26. He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

## Nearby chapters

[2 Kings 20](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-kings/20.md)
[2 Kings 22](https://www.lumin.faith/read/2-kings/22.md)

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