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of the Lord and did not turn away from the abominations of the nations which the Lord destroyed from before the sons of Israel; and Manasseh returned and built the high places, which Hezekiah his father had torn down, and he set up pillars to Baal and raised an altar to Baal, and he made groves, as Ahab king of Israel had done; and he made altars to all the host of heaven, and he built an altar in the house of the Lord, in which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, saying, that in it I will put my name. And Manasseh set up altars, and in them he served Baal, and said: My name shall be for ever. And he built altars in the two courts of the house of the Lord to the host of heaven; and he himself passed his children through fire in Gehenna, and he practiced augury and sorcery and appointed ventriloquists and charmers and diviners and teraphim, and he multiplied doing evil in the eyes of the Lord to provoke him to anger. And he placed the molten and the carved image of the grove, the image which he had made, in the house of the Lord, in which the Lord chose to place his name there in Jerusalem the holy city for ever, and he said: I will not again remove my foot from the land of Israel, which I gave to their fathers, except if they will keep all that I have commanded them, according to every commandment which Moses my servant commanded. And they did not listen, and Manasseh led them astray to do evil before the Lord beyond the nations which the Lord removed from before the sons of Israel. And the Lord spoke against Manasseh and against his people by the hand of his servants the prophets, saying: Because of all these evil abominations that Manasseh king of Judah has done, beyond all that the Amorite did before him, and he caused Judah to sin with his idols, thus says the Lord God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing evils upon Jerusalem and Judah, so that for everyone who hears of them, both his ears will tingle, and I will stretch over Jerusalem the measure of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as a dish is wiped, and I will turn it on its face and I will cast off the remnant of my inheritance, and I will deliver them into the hands of their enemies, and they shall be for plunder and for spoil to all their enemies; because of all the evil things they have done in the eyes

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Κυρίου καὶ οὐκ ἀπέστρεψεν ἀπὸ τῶν βδελυγμάτων τῶν ἐθνῶν ὧν ἐξωλόθρευσεν Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν Μανασσῆς καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν τὰ ὑψηλά, ἃ κατέσπασεν Ἐζεκίας ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔστησεν στήλας τῇ Βάαλ καὶ ἀνέστησεν θυσιαστήριον τῇ Βάαλ, καὶ ἐποίησεν ἄλση, καθὼς ἐποίησεν Ἀχαὰβ βασιλεὺς Ἰσραήλ· καὶ ἐποίησεν θυσιαστήρια πάσῃ τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ᾠκοδόμησεν θυσιαστήριον ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου, ἐν ᾧ εἶπεν Κύριος πρὸς ∆αυὶδ καὶ πρὸς Σολομῶνα τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ λέγων, ὅτι ἐν αὐτῷ θήσω τὸ ὄνομά μου. Καὶ ἔστησεν Μανασσῆς θυσιαστήρια, καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖς ἐδούλευσεν τῇ Βάαλ, καὶ εἶπεν· Ἔσται τὸ ὄνομά μου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Καὶ ᾠκο δόμησε θυσιαστήρια ἐν ταῖς δυσὶν αὐλαῖς οἴκου Κυρίου τῇ στρατιᾷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· καὶ αὐτὸς διῆγεν τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ ἐν πυρὶ ἐν Γὲ Βενεννόμ, καὶ ἐκληδονίζετο καὶ ἐφαρμακεύετο καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐγγαστριμύθους καὶ ἐπαοιδοὺς καὶ γνώστας καὶ θεραφείν, καὶ ἐπλήθυνεν τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς Κυρίου τοῦ παροργίσαι αὐτόν. Καὶ ἔθηκεν τὸν χωνευτὸν καὶ τὸν γλυπτὸν τοῦ ἄλσους, τὴν εἰκόνα ἣν ἐποίησεν, ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου, ἐν ᾧ ἐξελέξατο Κύριος θέσθαι τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖ ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ τῇ ἁγίᾳ πόλει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ εἶπεν· Oὐ προσθήσω τὸν πόδα μου σαλεῦσαι ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς Ἰσραὴλ, ἣν ἔδωκα τοῖς πατράσιν αὐτῶν, πλὴν ἐὰν φυλάξωνται κατὰ πάντα ὅσα ἐνετειλάμην αὐτοῖς, κατὰ πᾶσαν ἐντολήν, ἣν ἐνετείλατο Μωϋσῆς ὁ δοῦλός μου. Καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσαν, καὶ ἐπλάνησεν αὐτοὺς Μανασσῆς τοῦ ποιῆσαι τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον Κυρίου ὑπὲρ τὰ ἔθνη ἃ ἐξῆρεν Κύριος ἀπὸ προσώπου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ. Καὶ ἐλάλησεν Κύριος ἐπὶ Μανασσῆν καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ ἐν χειρὶ δούλων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν λέγων· Ἀνθ' ὧν ὅσα ἐποίησεν Μανασσῆς ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἰούδα τὰ βδελύγματα τὰ πονηρὰ ταῦτα ἀπὸ πάντων ὧν ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἀμορραῖος ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξήμαρτεν τὸν Ἰούδαν ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις αὐτοῦ, τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραήλ· Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ φέρω κακὰ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ Ἰούδαν, ὥστε παντὸς ἀκούοντος αὐτὰ ἠχήσει ἀμφότερα τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκτενῶ ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ τὸ μέτρον Σαμαρείας καὶ τὸν σταθμὸν τοῦ οἴκου Ἀχαάβ, καὶ ἀπαλείψω τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καθὼς ἀπαλείφεται τὸ πυξίον ἀπαλειφόμενον, καὶ καταστρέψω ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποδώσομαι τὸ ὑπόλειμμα τῆς κληρο νομίας μου, καὶ παραδώσω αὐτοὺς εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔσονται εἰς διαρπαγὴν καὶ προνομὴν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς αὐτῶν· ἀνθ' ὧν ὅσα ἐποίησαν πονηρὰ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς