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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Kings 21 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > 2 Kings 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/20.htm" title="2 Kings 20">◄</a> 2 Kings 21 <a href="../2_kings/22.htm" title="2 Kings 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Manasseh Reigns in Judah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Manasses <i>was</i> twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Apsiba. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he built again the high places, which Ezekias his father <i>had</i> demolished; and set up an altar to Baal, and made groves as Achaab king of Israel <i>made them</i>; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he built an altar in the house of the Lord, whereas he had said, In Jerusalem I will place my name. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And he built an altar to all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers, <i>even of those</i> who shall keep all that I commanded, according to all the commandments which my servant Moses commanded them. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But they hearkened 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.<p> <A name="11"></a><p class="hdg">Manasseh’s Idolatries Rebuked<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the Lord spoke by his servants the prophets, saying, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before <i>him</i>, and has led Juda also into sin by their idols, <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><i>it shall</i> not <i>be</i> so. Thus saith 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. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And 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. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And 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: <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>forasmuch 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.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Moreover Manasses shed very much innocent blood, until he filled Jerusalem <i>with it</i> 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. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the rest of the acts of Manasses, and all that he did, and his sin which he sinned, <i>are</i> not these things written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Manasses slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his house, <i>even</i> in the garden of Oza: and Amos his son reigned in his stead.<p> <A name="20"></a><p class="hdg">Amon Reigns in Judah<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Twenty and two years old <i>was</i> Amos when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name <i>was</i> Mesollam, daughter of Arus of Jeteba. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasses his father did. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshipped them. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And he forsook the Lord God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of the Lord. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the servants of Amos conspired against him, and slew the king in his house. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the people of the land slew all that had conspired against king Amos; and the people of the land made Josias king in his room. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the rest of the acts of Amos, <i>even</i> all that he did, behold, <i>are</i> not these written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Juda? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And they buried him in his tomb in the garden of Oza: and Josias his son reigned in his stead.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../2_kings/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../2_kings/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>