2 Tawarikh 33:7-17

33:7 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. ¹  33:8 I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, ²  provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses.” 33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of ³  Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

33:10 The Lord confronted ⁴  Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention. 33:11 So the Lord brought against them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria. They seized Manasseh, put hooks in his nose, ⁵  bound him with bronze chains, and carried him away to Babylon. 33:12 In his pain ⁶  Manasseh ⁷  asked the Lord his God for mercy ⁸  and truly ⁹  humbled himself before the God of his ancestors. ¹⁰  33:13 When he prayed to the Lord, ¹¹  the Lord ¹²  responded to him ¹³  and answered favorably ¹⁴  his cry for mercy. The Lord ¹⁵  brought him back to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh realized that the Lord is the true God.

33:14 After this Manasseh ¹⁶  built up the outer wall of the City of David ¹⁷  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.

33:15 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. 33:16 He erected the altar of the Lord and offered on it peace offerings and thank offerings. He told the people of ¹⁸  Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel. 33:17 The people continued to offer sacrifices at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

2 Tawarikh 28:24

28:24 Ahaz gathered the items in God’s temple and removed them. He shut the doors of the Lord’s temple and erected altars on every street corner in Jerusalem.

[33:7]  ¹ tn Heb “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I chose from all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name permanently” (or perhaps “forever”).

[33:8]  ² tn Heb “I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I established for their fathers.”

[33:9]  ³ tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.

[33:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “spoke to.”

[33:11]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they seized him with hooks.”

[33:12]  ⁶ tn Or “distress.”

[33:12]  ⁷ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:12]  ⁸ tn Heb “appeased the face of the Lord his God.”

[33:12]  ⁹ tn Or “greatly.”

[33:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fathers.”

[33:13]  ¹¹ tn Heb “him”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ¹² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:13]  ¹³ tn Heb “was entreated by him,” or “allowed himself to be entreated by him.”

[33:13]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “heard.”

[33:13]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:14]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Manasseh) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[33:14]  ¹⁷ sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

[33:16]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “told Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.