2 Chronicles 33 — Manasseh’s repentance and Amon’s reign — Hebrew and Greek compared
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Chapter 33 — Manasseh’s repentance and Amon’s reign
Manasseh’s wrongdoing
Verse 33:1 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:1] Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:1] Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both give twelve as his accession age and fifty-five years as his reign.
Verse 33:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:2] He did what was evil in YHWH’s eyes, according to the abominations of the nations that YHWH had dispossessed before the children of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:2] He did what was evil before the Lord, following all the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the sons of Israel.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew speaks of dispossessing the nations; the Greek of destroying them, and adds all to their abominations.
Verse 33:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:3] He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, erected altars to the Baals, made Asherahs, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:3] He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had pulled down, erected pillars for the Baals, made sacred groves, and bowed down to all the army of heaven and served them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew names altars for the Baals, the Greek pillars. Asherahs is rendered by the Greek as groves; both preserve worship of the heavenly host.
Verse 33:4 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:4] He built altars in YHWH’s house, concerning which YHWH had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:4] He built altars in the Lord’s house, concerning which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The location of the illicit altars and the promise concerning the divine name correspond.
Verse 33:5 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:5] He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courtyards of YHWH’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:5] He built altars for all the army of heaven in the two courtyards of the Lord’s house.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both explicitly locate these altars in the two sanctuary courtyards.
Verse 33:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:6] He made his sons pass through fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced soothsaying, divination, and sorcery, and dealt with a medium and a spirit-knower. He multiplied evil in YHWH’s eyes, provoking Him to anger.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:6] He passed his children through fire in Gai-banai-ennom. He sought omens from utterances, practiced augury and sorcery, and appointed spirit-mediums and enchanters. He multiplied evil before the Lord, provoking Him to anger.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew has sons and the named valley; the Greek has children and a transliterated place-name. The lists of divinatory practices correspond broadly but use distinct technical terms, and the Greek explicitly pluralizes mediums and enchanters.
Verse 33:7 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:7] He set the carved image of the idol he had made in God’s house, concerning which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will set My name forever.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:7] He set the carved object and the cast object, an image he had made, in God’s house, concerning which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will set My name forever.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek expressly adds a cast object alongside the carved object. The Hebrew describes the carved image of the idol without that second manufacturing term.
Verse 33:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:8] I will no longer remove Israel’s foot from the ground I established for your fathers, if only they take care to do everything I commanded them, according to all the law, statutes, and judgments given through Moses.”
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:8] I will no longer shake Israel’s foot from the land I gave their fathers, if only they take care to do everything I commanded them, according to all the law, ordinances, and judgments through Moses.”
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew promises not to remove the foot from ground established for your fathers; the Greek not to shake it from land given their fathers. The condition of obedience remains in both.
Verse 33:9 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:9] Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations YHWH had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:9] Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do evil beyond all the nations the Lord had removed before the sons of Israel.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both judge Judah’s evil worse than that of the preceding nations. The Greek adds all and uses removal where the Hebrew has destruction.
Captivity, prayer, and restoration
Verse 33:10 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:10] YHWH spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:10] The Lord spoke against Manasseh and his people, but they did not listen.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Greek’s preposition presents speech against them; the Hebrew directs speech to them. Both report refusal to listen.
Verse 33:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:11] YHWH brought against them the army commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:11] The Lord brought against them the commanders of the king of Assyria’s force. They seized Manasseh in bonds, bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew specifies hooks and bronze fetters; the Greek gives bonds and fetters without naming the metal. Both identify Assyrian captors and Babylon as the destination.
Verse 33:12 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:12] In his distress he entreated the face of YHWH his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:12] When he was afflicted, he sought the face of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Entreating in distress and seeking under affliction lead to the same explicit humbling before his ancestral God.
Verse 33:13 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:13] He prayed to Him, and He allowed Himself to be entreated by him, heard his supplication, and restored him to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that YHWH is God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:13] He prayed to Him, and He listened to him. He heard his cry and restored him to Jerusalem, to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord Himself is God.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The Hebrew distinguishes being entreated and hearing supplication; the Greek repeats hearing and calls the prayer a cry. Restoration and recognition of God correspond.
Reform and the king’s record
Verse 33:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:14] Afterward he built an outer wall for the City of David, west of Gihon in the wadi, toward the entrance of the Fish Gate and around the Ophel, and raised it very high. He stationed military commanders in all Judah’s fortified cities.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:14] After these things he built a wall outside the City of David, from the southwest opposite Gihon in the winter stream, and where people go out through the surrounding gate, and toward Ophla, and raised it very high. He stationed commanders of the force in all Judah’s walled cities.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew names the Fish Gate and going around the Ophel. The Greek has an awkward phrase about those going out through a surrounding gate and then Ophla; the Fish Gate is not named. Southwest renders its directional lips, while the Hebrew says west.
Verse 33:15 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:15] He removed the foreign gods and the idol from YHWH’s house, and all the altars he had built on the mountain of YHWH’s house and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:15] He removed the foreign gods and the carved object from the Lord’s house, and all the altars he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s house and in Jerusalem and outside the city.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Hebrew concludes by throwing the removed objects outside the city. The Greek has no throwing verb and includes outside the city in its list of locations.
Verse 33:16 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:16] He restored YHWH’s altar and sacrificed peace offerings and thanksgiving upon it. He told Judah to serve YHWH, the God of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:16] He set the Lord’s altar right and sacrificed an offering of salvation and praise upon it. He told Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Restoration and the command to serve Israel’s God correspond. The Hebrew names peace and thanksgiving offerings; the Greek uses salvation and praise.
Verse 33:17 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:17] Nevertheless the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to YHWH their God.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:17] Nevertheless the people were still at the high places; nevertheless, the Lord their God.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek omits the sacrificing verb and leaves the second clause as a nominative fragment. Its wording has not been filled out from the Hebrew’s explicit restriction of sacrifice to YHWH.
Verse 33:18 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:18] The rest of Manasseh’s deeds, his prayer to his God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of YHWH, the God of Israel, are in the records of the kings of Israel.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:18] The remaining deeds of Manasseh, his prayer to God, and the words of the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel—behold, in the accounts
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek does not name the kings of Israel and runs its closing accounts into the opening of verse nineteen. The visible break is retained rather than supplying the Hebrew royal record.
Verse 33:19 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:19] His prayer and how He was entreated by him, all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up Asherahs and carved images before he humbled himself are written in the records of Hozai.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:19] of his prayer, and how He listened to him, and all his sins and rebellions, and the places where he built the high places and set up sacred groves and carved objects before turning back—behold, they are written in the accounts of the seers.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: The Greek begins by completing accounts of his prayer across the verse boundary, where the Hebrew has a new sentence. The Hebrew ends with the displayed form Hozai, provisionally a name; the Greek has the seers. Humbling and turning back also differ.
Verse 33:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:20] Manasseh lay down with his fathers, and they buried him at his house. His son Amon reigned in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:20] Manasseh lay down with his fathers, and they buried him in the garden of his house. His son Amon reigned in his place.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Greek specifies the garden; the Hebrew says his house without naming a garden.
Amon’s reign
Verse 33:21 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:21] Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:21] Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The accession age and two-year reign agree.
Verse 33:22 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:22] He did what was evil in YHWH’s eyes, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the carved images his father Manasseh had made and served them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:22] He did what was evil before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the idols his father Manasseh had made and served them.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The Hebrew specifies carved images; the Greek calls them idols. Both connect Amon’s worship to objects made by his father.
Verse 33:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:23] He did not humble himself before YHWH as his father Manasseh had humbled himself; rather, this Amon multiplied guilt.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:23] He did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, because his son Amon multiplied transgression.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew has this Amon and an adversative continuation; the Greek explicitly calls Amon his son and introduces the statement with because.
Verse 33:24 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:24] His servants conspired against him and killed him in his house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:24] His servants attacked him and struck him in his house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew explicitly names conspiracy and killing; the Greek names an attack and striking. The following verse treats the succession as consequent on that assault.
Verse 33:25 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
[BHS 33:25] The people of the land struck down all who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
[LXX 33:25] The people of the land struck down those who had attacked King Amon, and the people of the land made his son Josiah king in his place.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both record the people’s punishment of the attackers and installation of Josiah. The Hebrew adds all and describes a conspiracy.