2 Siangpahrang 16
1 Remaliah capa Pekah, a bawi nah kum 17 navah, Judah siangpahrang Jotham capa Ahaz teh siangpahrang lah ao.
When Pekah had been ruling Israel for almost 17 years, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became the king of Judah.
2 Ahaz teh siangpahrang a tawk nah kum 20 touh a pha. Jerusalem kum 16 touh a uk. A na pa Devit patetlah BAWIPA Cathut mithmu vah hawinae sak laipalah, Isarelnaw ni a dawn awh e lam hah a dawn.
He was 20 years old when he became the king [of Judah]. He ruled from Jerusalem for 16 years. He did not do things that pleased Yahweh his God, good things like his ancestor King David had done.
3 BAWIPA ni Isarelnaw hmalah a pâlei e miphunnaw ni panuetthopoung e hno ouk a sak e patetlah a capanaw hah hmai hoi thuengnae a sak awh.
Instead, he was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He even sacrificed his son as an offering to idols. That was worse than the disgusting things that the people who previously lived there had done, people whom Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis were advancing through the land.
4 Hmuenrasang hoi mon tangkuem hoi thingkung rahim tangkuem vah, thuengnae a sak awh teh, hmuitui hmai a sawi awh.
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense [to honor Yahweh] on the tops of many hills and under many [HYP] big trees, [instead of in Jerusalem as Yahweh had commanded].
5 Hot patetlah, Siria siangpahrang Rezin hoi Isarel siangpahrang Remaliah capa Pekah teh, Jerusalem tuk hanlah a kamthaw teh, Ahaz hah king a kalup awh eiteh, tâ awh hoeh.
While he was the king of Judah, King Rezin of Assyria and King Pekah of Israel [came with their armies] and attacked Jerusalem. They surrounded the city, but they could not conquer it.
6 Hote tueng navah, siangpahrang Rezin ni Elath teh Siria ram hanlah, bout a la. Judahnaw Elath hoi a pâlei awh teh, Sirianaw hah Elath vah a cei awh teh, atu totouh haw vah kho a sak awh.
At that time the [army of the] king of Edom expelled the people of Judah who were living in Elath [city]. Some of the people of Edom started to live there, and they are still living there.
7 Ahaz ni Siria siangpahrang Tiglath Pileser koevah na san hoi na capa lah nahoehmaw ka o, kai tuk hanlah ka tho e Siria siangpahrang hoi Isarel siangpahrangnaw e kut dawk hoi na rungngang haw, ti teh patounenaw a patoun.
King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria, to tell this message to him: “I promise that I will completely do what you tell me to do, [as though] I [was] your son. Please come and rescue us from the armies of Syria and Israel who are attacking my country.”
8 Ahaz ni BAWIPA im e suingun kaawmnaw pueng siangpahrang im vah pâtung e râwnaw hai a la teh, Siria siangpahrang koevah ayawmlah a patawn.
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was in the palace and in the temple and sent it to Assyria to be a present/gift for the king of Assyria.
9 Assiria siangpahrang ni a dei e hah a tang teh, Damaskas kho a tuk teh a la. A taminaw hah Kir ram vah san lah a hrawi awh teh Rezin hah a thei awh.
So Tiglath-Pileser did what Ahaz requested. His army marched to Damascus and captured it, and they took the people of Damascus as prisoners to live in the capital city of Assyria, and executed [King] Rezin.
10 Siangpahrang Ahaz teh, Siria siangpahrang Tiglath Pileser kâhmo hanlah, Damaskas kho vah a cei teh, Damaskas kho e thuengnae khoungroe hah a hmu. Hot patetlah siangpahrang Ahaz ni, hote khoungroe e a meilam teh a sak e boiboe lah a khetkhai vaiteh, sak van hanlah, vaihma Urijah koevah a mei hah a patawn.
When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-Pileser, he saw the altar that was there. So he sent to Uriah, the Supreme Priest [in Jerusalem], a drawing of the altar and a model that was exactly like the altar in Damascus.
11 Vaihma Urijah, ni thuengnae khoungroe teh a sak hoi siangpahrang Ahaz ni, Damaskas kho hai a patawn awh e boiboe lah, vaihma Urijah ni Damaskas kho hai Ahaz siangpahrang a pha hoehnahlan a la cum toe.
So Uriah built an altar [in Jerusalem], following the drawing that King Ahaz had sent. Uriah finished the altar before Ahaz returned [to Jerusalem] from Damascus.
12 Damaskas kho hoi siangpahrang a pha toteh, siangpahrang ni thuengnae khoungroe teh a hmu. Siangpahrang ni thuengnae khoungroe a pâtam teh a van vah a luen.
When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar. He went to it
13 Thuengnae dawkvah, hmaisawi thuengnae hai a poe. Tavai thuengnae hai a poe. Nei thuengnae hah a awi teh, roum thuengnae thi hah a awi sin.
and burned animal sacrifices and a grain offering on it. He also poured a wine offering on it and threw on it the blood of the offerings to maintain fellowship with God.
14 Hahoi BAWIPA hmalah, rahum khoungroe, khoungroe hoi BAWIPA im rahak kaawm e, im hmalah kaawm e hah a puen awh teh, khoungroe e atung lah a ta.
The old bronze altar which had been dedicated long ago to Yahweh was between the new altar and the temple, so Ahaz moved it to the north side of his new altar, [which was bigger than the old altar].
15 Siangpahrang Ahaz ni ka len e khoungroe katha thuengnae dawkvah, amom lah, hmaisawi thuengnae, tangmin lah tavai thuengnae siangpahrang hmaisawi thuengnae, tavai thuengnae, nei thuengnae pueng hai hmaisawi nateh poe lawih. Hahoi a van vah, hmaisawi thuengnae pueng hoi thuengnae thinaw pueng haiyah, na kahei sin han. Rahum khoungroe teh ka bawk nahanelah ao han, vaihma Urijah hah kâ a poe.
Then King Ahaz ordered Uriah: “Each morning put on this new altar the sacrifices that will be completely burned, and in the evening put on it the grain offering, along with my offering and the offerings that the people bring, ones that will be completely burned, and my grain offering and the people’s grain and wine offerings. Pour against the sides of the altar the blood of all the animals that are sacrificed. But the old bronze altar will be only for me to use to find out what Yahweh wants me to do.”
16 Hot patetlah, vaihma Urijah ni, siangpahrang kâ poe patetlah a sak.
So Uriah did what the king commanded him to do.
17 Hahoi siangpahrang Ahaz ni rahum khoungroe ca hah a takhoe teh maroi hai a tahruet. Rahum tuiim hai rahum maito van hai a la teh talung van a pâhung.
King Ahaz told his workers to take off the frames of the carts [that were outside the temple] and to take down the basins that were on them. They also took down the bronze tank from the backs of the bronze [statues of the] oxen and put it on a stone foundation.
18 Assiria siangpahrang kecu dawkvah, sabbath hnin hanlah, lemphu padi e lam siangpahrang imthungkhu vah sak e hoi, siangpahrang hanlah a lawilah hoi kâennae BAWIPA im koehoi a puen awh.
Then to please the king of Assyria, Ahaz had them remove from the temple the roof under which the people walked into the temple on the Sabbath Day, and closed up the private entrance into the temple for the kings of Judah.
19 Ahaz tawksakna kaawm rae teh, Judah siangpahrangnaw e setouknae cauk dawk koung thut lah ao nahoehmaw.
[If you want to know about] the other things that Ahaz did, they are written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
20 Ahaz teh a na mintoenaw koe a kâhat. Devit kho thung, a na mintoenaw koe a pakawp awh, hahoi a capa Hezekiah ni a yueng lah a uk.
Ahaz died [EUP], and he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, where his ancestors had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
