2 Setouknae 31
1 Hote hnonaw pueng koung a sak hoiyah, hawvah kaawm e Isarelnaw pueng ni, Judah ram pueng hoi, Benjamin ram hoi, Ephraim ram hoi, Manasseh ram kaawm e talung ung e hah reprep koung a hem awh. Thing meikaphawk hah a tâtueng awh teh, hmuenrasang hoi thuengnae hah koung a raphoe hoehroukrak, Judah ram kho tangkuem dawk a cei awh. Hahoi Isarel catounnaw hah amamae ram hoi kho dawk lengkaleng a ban awh.
After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.
2 Hezekiah ni vaihmanaw hoi Levihnaw hah amamae ahuhu lahoi tami pueng e vaihma hoi Levihnaw ni amamae thaw lengkaleng dawk hmaisawi thuengnae hoi roum thuengnae sathei thuengnae ka poe hane hoi thaw katawknaw hoi lunghawilawk ka dei hane hoi, BAWIPA onae longkha ka ring hane hu hah a sak pouh.
Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.
3 BAWIPA e kâlawk dawk kaawm e patetlah amom lae hoi tangmin lae, hmaisawi thuengnae hoi sabbath hoi thapareinae hoi pawi hnin hanelah, siangpahrang ni a tawn e dawk hoi a poe pouh awh.
The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].
4 Hothloilah, Jerusalem e tami hah BAWIPA e kâlawk dawkvah tha kâla thai nahanelah, vaihmanaw hoi Levihnaw hah a ham poe awh van nahanlah kâ a poe.
Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.
5 Kâ poe e hah koung a pathang awh tahma hoi, Isarel catounnaw ni cakang aluepaw, hoi misur hoi satui, khoitui hoi law dawk e pung hra pung touh hah a poe awh.
As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.
6 Isarel hoi Judah catoun, Judah ram khote lah kaawmnaw pueng ni, maito hoi tu hra touh dawk buet touh BAWIPA Cathut ni coe hanelah, a poe awh teh, moikapap a pâkhueng awh.
The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.
7 Thapa yung pâthumnae dawk pâkhueng hane a kamtawng awh teh, thapa yung sarinae dawk pâkhueng e thaw a cum awh.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 Hezekiah hoi kahrawikungnaw ni a hmu awh torei teh, BAWIPA hoi a tami Isarelnaw hah a oup awh.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Hottelah Hezekiah ni hno a pâkhueng e kong dawkvah vaihma hoi Levihnaw la a pacei.
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 Zadok tami, vaihma bawi Azariah ni a pathung teh, tami ni BAWIPA im dawk hno poe e kamtawng totouh hoi kakhoutlah meng a ca awh teh, moikapap a cawi rah. BAWIPA ni a taminaw yawhawi pou na poe teh, hete kacawie naw hah ca awh e dawk hoi kacawie naw doeh telah ati.
Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”
11 Hahoi Hezekiah ni BAWIPA im dawk hnoim sak hanelah kâ a poe teh a sak awh.
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 Hahoi hno poe e hoi hra touh dawk buet touh poe e hoi Cathut ni coe e naw hah yuemkamculah a kâenkhai awh. Kahrawikungnaw teh, Levih tami Konaniah doeh. A hmaunawngha Shimei teh kabawm e lah ao.
Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.
13 Konaniah hoi a hmaunawngha Shimei kut rahim vah, siangpahrang Hezekiah hoi Cathut im dawk e kahrawikung Azariah e kâ poe e lahoi ka khenyawnkung lah Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakhiah, Mahath, hoi Benaiah tinaw hah ao awh.
Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.
14 Hahoi Levih tami Imnah capa Kore, Kanîtholae, longkha ka ring e teh, Cathut koevah ama lungthocalah hoi hno poe e kakhenyawnkung hoi Cathut hanelah hno poe e hoi hno kathoung kareikung lah ao.
Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.
15 Amae a rahim vah, vaihma a onae khonaw dawk, Eden, Meniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, Shekaniah tinaw hah ao awh. Hotnaw ni a hmaunawnghanaw ahuhu lahoi kathoung kalennaw koevah a coe awh e hah a rei awh.
Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
16 A tâconae dawkvah thut e tongpa kum thum hoi a lathueng lae, hnintangkuem BAWIPA im dawk thaw tawk hane a tawn e, amamae ahu e phung patetlah ouk a ceinae naw touksin laipalah,
They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.
17 a napanaw e imthung patetlah a tâconae lahoi thut e vaihma koevah, kâkapeknae hoi a thaw tawk e lengkaleng dawk hoi Levih tami kum 30 totouh hoi a lathueng lae naw pueng koehoi,
The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.
18 a tâconae dawk hoi thut e naw pueng koe, a camonaw hoi, a yunaw hoi a canu capanaw, ahu abuemlahoi a rei awh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, yuemkamcunae hoi thoungnae dawkvah a kamthoung awh.
They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.
19 Vaihma Aron capanaw e khopui tengpam khonaw koe kaawm e khopui tangkuem vah, vaihmanaw thung hoi tongpa pueng a ham rei hanelah a min lahoi pakhum e naw hoi Levihnaw a tâconae cayin dawk ka bawk e pueng a ham rei hanelah, acawilah pouk pouh e lah ao.
[Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.
20 Hot patetlah Judah ram pueng dawk Hezekiah ni a sak BAWIPA Cathut e hmaitung vah kahawi e hoi kalan e hoi yuemkamcu e hno hah ouk a sak.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 Cathut im e thaw tawknae kong dawk thoseh, kâlawk dawk thoseh, kâpoelawknaw dawk thoseh, Cathut a tawngnae dawk thoseh, a sak e pueng dawk lungthin abuemlahoi a sak dawkvah, a lamcawn pouh.
In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
