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21:1 玛拿西登基的时候年十二岁，在耶路撒冷作王五十五年。他母亲名叫协西巴。
Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzibah.
21:2 玛拿西行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，效法耶和华在以色列人面前赶出的外邦人所行可憎的事。
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
21:3 重新建筑他父希西家所毁坏的邱坛，又为巴力筑坛，作亚舍拉像，效法以色列王亚哈所行的，且敬拜事奉天上的万象。
For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as did Ahab king of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
21:4 在耶和华殿宇中筑坛。耶和华曾指着这殿说，我必立我的名在耶路撒冷。
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
21:5 他在耶和华殿的两院中为天上的万象筑坛，
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
21:6 并使他的儿子经火，又观兆，用法术，立交鬼的和行巫术的，多行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，惹动他的怒气。
And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards: he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.
21:7 又在殿内立雕刻的亚舍拉像。耶和华曾对大卫和他儿子所罗门说，我在以色列众支派中所选择的耶路撒冷和这殿，必立我的名，直到永远。
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made 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 tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
21:8 以色列人若谨守遵行我一切所吩咐他们的，和我仆人摩西所吩咐他们的一切律法，我就不再使他们挪移离开我所赐给他们列祖之地。
Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.
21:9 他们却不听从。玛拿西引诱他们行恶，比耶和华在以色列人面前所灭的列国更甚。
But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
21:10 耶和华藉他仆人众先知说，
And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets, saying,
21:11 因犹大王玛拿西行这些可憎的恶事比先前亚摩利人所行的更甚，使犹大人拜他的偶像，陷在罪里。
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
21:12 所以耶和华以色列的神如此说，我必降祸与耶路撒冷和犹大，叫一切听见的人无不耳呜。
Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
21:13 我必用量撒马利亚的准绳和亚哈家的线铊拉在耶路撒冷上，必擦净耶路撒冷，如人擦盘，将盘倒扣。
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
21:14 我必弃掉所馀剩的子民（原文作产业），把他们交在仇敌手中，使他们成为一切仇敌掳掠之物。
And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
21:15 是因他们自从列祖出埃及直到如今，常行我眼中看为恶的事，惹动我的怒气。
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
21:16 玛拿西行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，使犹大人陷在罪里，又流许多无辜人的血，充满了耶路撒冷，从这边直到那边。
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
21:17 玛拿西其馀的事，凡他所行的和他所犯的罪都写在犹大列王记上。
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:18 玛拿西与他列祖同睡，葬在自己宫院乌撒的园内。他儿子亚们接续他作王。
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
21:19 亚们登基的时候年二十二岁，在耶路撒冷作王二年。他母亲名叫米舒利密，是约提巴人哈鲁斯的女儿。
Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.
21:20 亚们行耶和华眼中看为恶的事，与他父亲玛拿西所行的一样。
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh did.
21:21 行他父亲一切所行的，敬奉他父亲所敬奉的偶像，
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
21:22 离弃耶和华他列祖的神，不遵行耶和华的道。
And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the LORD.
21:23 亚们王的臣仆背叛他，在宫里杀了他。
And the servants of Amon conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house.
21:24 但国民杀了那些背叛亚们王的人，立他儿子约西亚接续他作王。
And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.
21:25 亚们其馀所行的事都写在犹大列王记上。
Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
21:26 亚们葬在乌撒的园内自己的坟墓里。他儿子约西亚接续他作王。
And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
列王记下21参考
玛拿西是一个甚么样的恶王？
21:1-18 玛拿西效法祖父亚哈斯多于效法他父亲希西家（译者注：在他出生时祖父亚哈斯已经死了）。他效法巴比伦人与迦南人的邪风恶俗，包括使儿子经火──用儿子献祭（21:6）。他不听神的先知的话，故意令人民犯罪。（有关他的一生，请参历代志下33章的介绍。）
为何今天仍有信徒对某些邪术习以为常？
21:6 玛拿西是个恶王，他犯罪惹动神的怒气。他效法异教的习俗──观兆、用法术（也可以译作“行巫术与占卜”），招聘交鬼的和行巫术的，全是神所严禁的事（参利19:31；申18:9-13），因为这些事显出对他的不信，并有犯罪的举动，让污鬼的势力长驱直入。现在有许多书籍或电视节目与游戏，都看重占卜算命、降邪招魂，以及其他的异教习俗。不要因为想知悉未来，或者以为迷信对人无害，就宽容这些荒诞的花样。它们都是虚假的，并不是神的大能，其信仰的根源完全与神对立。
亚舍拉是个甚么偶像？
21:7 亚舍拉是迦南人的女神巴力的妻子。她的柱像是木头造的（参出34:13与申12:3）。神明确地禁止以色列人去拜亚舍拉木偶。
准绳和线铊，不是丈量的工具吗？何解却用来──
21:13 准绳与线铊象徵对犹大的审判。这些丈量的工具，本是用来量度建造工程的，在这里用来检验耶路撒冷，显出它的亏欠，因此神说，他要毁灭耶路撒冷，有如毁灭撒马利亚与亚哈家一样。
流许多无辜人的血？这玛拿西干的是甚么事？
21:16 按照传统的说法，当玛拿西进行大屠杀的时候，以赛亚躲在一个树洞里，却被他们拉出来用锯锯死（参来11:37-38）。当时也有其他的先知被害。