2 Weche Mag Ndalo 31
1 Kane magi duto oserumo, jo-Israel duto mane ni kanyo nodhi e miech Juda ma gitoyo kite milamo kendo negingʼado sirni milamo mag Ashera. Negimuko kuonde motingʼore malo mag lemo kaachiel gi kende mag misango miwangʼoe liswa e piny Juda gi Benjamin kod piny Efraim gi Manase. Bangʼe kane gisemukogi duto, jo-Israel nodok kuondegi mag dak e miechgi.
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 Hezekia nopogo jodolo kod jo-Lawi migepe mondo gichiw misengini miwangʼo pep kod misango mar lalruok kod tije lemo gi dwoko erokamano kod wero wende pak e dhorangeye mag kambi Jehova Nyasaye.
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 Ruoth nochiwore koa kuom mwandune gik mitimogo misengini miwangʼo pep mag chiengʼ Sabato gi mag chiengʼ dwe manyien kendo ndalo mag sewni moyier kaka ondiki e Chik Jehova Nyasaye.
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 Nochiko joma nodak Jerusalem mondo ochiw ni jodolo gi jo-Lawi pokgi mondo mi gichiwre gi chunygi duto ne Chik mar Jehova Nyasaye.
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 Mapiyo nono ka wachni nochopo ni ji, jo-Israel nochiwo cham magikwongo kayo, gi divai magikwongo loso gi mor Zeituni mokwongo nyak gi mor kich kod gik moko duto mag puodho.
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 Jo-Israel kod jo-Juda mane odak e dalane mag Juda bende nokelo achiel kuom apar mag dhok gi jamni kaachiel gi achiel kuom apar mar gik maler mane gichiwone Jehova Nyasaye, ma Nyasachgi kendo nochokgi e pidhe.
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 Negichako dhuro pidhego chakre dwe mar adek kendo negitieko dhurogi e dwe mar abiriyo.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 Kane Hezekia gi jodonge nobiro moneno pidhego negipako Jehova Nyasaye kendo negigwedho jo-Israel.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Hezekia nopenjo jodolo kod jo-Lawi wach pidhego,
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 eka Azaria jadolo maduongʼ ma anywola Zadok nodwoke niya, “Nyaka ji chak kelo chiemo e hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye, wasechiemo mawayiengʼ kendo chiemo mangʼeny pod odongʼ nikech Jehova Nyasaye osegwedho joge, mano emomiyo magi odongʼ.”
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 Hezekia nochiko mondo oik kuonde keno mag hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye mi notim kamano.
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 Bangʼe negikelo gadiera chiwo gi achiel kuom apar kod mich mowal. Konania ja-Lawi ne jarit mar gigo to jatelo maluwe ne owadgi Shimei.
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 Jehiel, Azazia, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakia, Mahath kod Benaya ne jotelo e bwo Konania kod Shimei owadgi. Jogi duto notiyo kaluwore gi tich mane ruoth Hezekia kod Azaria mane jatelo morito hekalu mar Nyasaye omiyogi.
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 Kore wuod Imna ma ja-Lawi, jarit rangach ma yo wuok chiengʼ, ne jarit chiwo mar hera, ka opogo gik mochiwne Jehova Nyasaye kod chiwo mowal.
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 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaya, Amaria kod Shekania ne okonye gadiera ka gidak e miech jodolo, ka gipogo jodolo wetegi kaluwore gi migepegi, jomadongo gi jomatindo machal.
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 Bende ne gipogone chwo mahikgi adek kadhi nyime mane nying-gi ondiki e nonro margi mar anywola, jogo duto mane nyalo donjo e hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye mondo gitim tijegi mapile mopogore opogore kaluwore gi tich manomigi kaachiel gi migepegi.
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 Kendo ne gipogone jodolo mane ondik nying-gi kaluwore gi ndiko mar chenro mar nonro mar anywolagi kendo jo-Lawi ma jo-higni piero ariyo kadhi nyime bende notimnigi kamano kaluwore gi tije mag-gi kod migepegi.
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 Magi notingʼo jomatindo duto gi mon gi yawuowi kod nyiri duto mag dhoodno kaka ondikgi e nonro mar anywolagi. Negitimo gima nikare kuom pwodhruokgi.
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 To jonabi mane nyikwa Harun mane odak e puothe mipuro molworo miechgi kata mane odak e mier mamoko ne oyier joma ne pogo gik moko ne ngʼato angʼata mane nitie e diergi ma dichwo kaachiel gi jogo duto mane ondik nying-gi koa e dhood Lawi.
[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 Magi e gik mane Hezekia otimo e piny Juda duto kotimo maber kendo makare kendo mowinjore ni Jehova Nyasaye ma ok obagni.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 Gimoro amora mane otimo ei hekalu mar Nyasaye kaluwore gi bura kod chike, notimo komanyo Nyasache gi chunye duto. Omiyo nogwedhe.
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.
