2 Sử-ký 33
Kinh Thánh Bản Truyền Thống ⇄ NET Bible
Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.
ВивченняCác nơi cao và tượng A-sê-ra — Các nơi cao là những địa điểm thờ phượng địa phương, thường được dùng để thờ phượng trái phép. Thuật ngữ “tượng A-sê-ra” chỉ các đồ vật thờ cúng bằng gỗ. Ma-na-se đã đảo ngược các cuộc cải cách của cha mình là Ê-xê-chia.He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them.
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”
In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.
ВивченняTrũng con Hi-nôm — Thung lũng này (tiếng Hê-bơ-rơ là Gei Ben Hi-nôm) sau này trở thành nguồn gốc tên gọi “Ghê-hen-na,” một thuật ngữ trong Tân Ước chỉ nơi phán xét. Việc cho con cái qua lửa ám chỉ tục tế con người, khiến thung lũng này trở thành biểu tượng cho sự ô uế.(JER 7:31)He passed his sons through the fire in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and practiced divination, omen reading, and sorcery. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the Lord and angered him.
He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.”
But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
The Lord confronted Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
ВивченняMóc câu, không phải gai góc — Từ Hê-bơ-rơ được dịch là “gai góc” cũng có thể hiểu là “móc câu.” Nhiều bản dịch cho rằng Ma-na-se đã bị bắt bằng móc câu—một hình thức bắt giữ đầy nhục nhã—rồi bị trói lại. Cách diễn đạt này phù hợp với thời kỳ lịch sử đó hơn là mô tả về các bụi gai.So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon.
ВивченняSự ăn năn của Ma-na-se — Sách Sử Ký ghi lại một cách độc đáo sự hạ mình và phục hồi của Ma-na-se; sách Các Vua chỉ thuật lại tội ác của ông mà không nhắc đến việc ông quay trở lại với Chúa. Ngay cả một trong những vị vua tồi tệ nhất của Giu-đa cũng nhận được sự thương xót khi ông hạ mình và cầu nguyện.In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.
When he prayed to the Lord, the Lord responded to him and answered favorably his cry for mercy. The Lord brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.
After this Manasseh built up the outer wall of the City of David on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.
He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.
He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
The people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.
The rest of the events of Manasseh’s reign, including his prayer to his God and the words the prophets spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, are recorded in the Annals of the Kings of Israel.
The Annals of the Prophets include his prayer, give an account of how the Lord responded to it, record all his sins and unfaithful acts, and identify the sites where he built high places and erected Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself.
Manasseh passed away and was buried in his palace. His son Amon replaced him as king.
Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.
He did evil in the sight of the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them.
ВивченняSự khác biệt tai hại của A-môn — A-môn bắt chước sự thờ thần tượng của Ma-na-se nhưng không bắt chước sự hạ mình của cha mình. Người viết nhấn mạnh sự tương phản quan trọng: Ma-na-se cuối cùng đã phục tùng Đức Chúa Trời; còn A-môn thì từ chối và càng làm tăng thêm tội lỗi của mình.He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done. Amon was guilty of great sin.
His servants conspired against him and killed him in his palace.
The people of the land executed all who had conspired against King Amon, and they made his son Josiah king in his place.
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