⁴⁰ Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left.

³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. ^35 (A)There will be two women ^(B)grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”^{[a] 37} And they said to him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, ^(C)“Where the corpse^[b] is, there the vultures^[c] will gather.”

⁷ and ^(A)if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked ⁸ (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, ^(B)he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); ⁹ then ^(C)the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials,^[a] and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment,

⁵ if he did not spare the ancient world, but ^(A)preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought ^(B)a flood upon the world of the ungodly;

⁷ For who sees anything different in you? ^(A)What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

^39 (A)One of the criminals who were hanged ^(B)railed at him,^[a] saying, “Are you not ^(C)the Christ? Save yourself and us!” ⁴⁰ But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴² And he said, “Jesus, remember me ^(D)when you come into your kingdom.” ⁴³ And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in ^(E)paradise.”

¹² And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God ^(A)and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. ¹³ He prayed to him, and ^(B)God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. ^(C)Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

¹⁴ Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of ^(D)Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into ^(E)the Fish Gate, and carried it around ^(F)Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah. ¹⁵ And ^(G)he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city. ¹⁶ He also restored the altar of the Lord and offered on it sacrifices of peace offerings and of thanksgiving, and he commanded Judah to serve the Lord, the God of Israel. ^17 (H)Nevertheless, the people still sacrificed at the high places, but only to the Lord their God.

¹⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and ^(I)his prayer to his God, and the words of ^(J)the seers who spoke to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, behold, they are in the ^(K)Chronicles of the Kings of Israel. ¹⁹ And his prayer, and how ^(L)God was moved by his entreaty, and all his sin and his faithlessness, and the sites ^(M)on which he built high places and set up the ^(N)Asherim and the images, before ^(O)he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the Chronicles of the Seers.^{[a] 20} So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his house, and Amon his son reigned in his place.

Amon's Reign and Death

^21 (P)Amon was twenty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem. ²² And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images ^(Q)that Manasseh his father had made, and served them. ²³ And he did not humble himself before the Lord, ^(R)as Manasseh his father had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred guilt more and more. ²⁴ And his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his house.