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1 Kendo jopinyno nokawo Jehoahaz wuod Josia mokete obedo ruoth e Jerusalem kar wuon mare.
Then the people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and appointed him as the king in Jerusalem.
2 Jehoahaz ne ja-higni piero ariyo gadek kane odoko ruoth kendo nobedo e loch kodak Jerusalem kuom dweche adek.
Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months.
3 Ruodh jo-Misri nogole e loch Jerusalem kendo nochuno jo-Juda mondo ochiw osuru mar fedha ma pekne romo kilo alufu adek gi mia angʼwen kod dhahabu ma pekne romo kilo piero adek gangʼwen.
King Neco of Egypt [captured him and] prevented him from ruling any longer. He also forced the people of Judah to pay him a tax of almost four tons of silver and about 75 pounds of gold.
4 Ruodh Misri noketo Eliakim owadgi Jehoahaz ruodh Juda kod Jerusalem kendo noloko nying Eliakim ni Jehoyakim. Neko nokawo Jehoahaz owadgi Eliakim mi otero e twech Misri.
The king of Egypt appointed Jehoahaz’s [younger] brother Eliakim to be the king of Judah. He changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. After Neco captured Jehoahaz, he took him to Egypt.
5 Jehoyakim ne ja-higni piero ariyo gabich kane odoko ruoth kendo nobedo e loch kuom higni apar gachiel kodak Jerusalem. Kendo notimo gik maricho e nyim wangʼ Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasache.
Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 11 years. He did things that Yahweh his God considers to be evil.
6 Nebukadneza ruodh Babulon nomonje motweye gi rateke mag mula motere Babulon.
Then the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They [captured Jehoiakim and] bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
7 Bende Nebukadneza nokawo gige lemo mar hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye moketogi e hekalu mare e piny Babulon.
Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers also took valuable things from the temple; they took them to Babylon and put them in king [Nebuchadnezzar’s] palace there.
8 Kuom gik mamoko duto mag ndalo loch Jehoyakim, timbe maricho manotimo kod ketho malingʼ-lingʼ mane ofweny kuome, ondiki e kitap ruodhi mag Israel kod Juda. Kendo Jehoyakin wuode nobedo ruoth kare.
A record of the other things that happened while Jehoiakim was ruling, the detestable things that he did, including the evil things that people said that he did, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’. After [he was taken to Babylon], his son Jehoiachin became the king [of Judah].
9 Jehoyakin ne ja-higni apar gaboro kane odoko ruoth kendo nobedo e loch kodak Jerusalem kuom dweche adek kod ndalo apar. Notimo richo e nyim wangʼ Jehova Nyasaye.
Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months and ten days. He did things that Yahweh considers to be evil.
10 E ndalo chwiri ruoth Nebukadneza nooro wach mondo oome otere Babulon kaachiel gi gige lemo mabeyo mag hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye kendo noketo owadgi wuon Jehoyakin, ma nyinge Zedekia mondo obed ruodh Juda kod Jerusalem.
During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent [soldiers] to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.
11 Zedekia ne ja-higni piero ariyo gachiel kane obedo ruoth kendo nobedo e loch kuom higni apar gachiel kodak Jerusalem.
Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years.
12 Notimo richo e nyim Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasache kendo ne ok obolore e nyim Jeremia janabi mane nyise wach Jehova Nyasaye.
He did many things that Yahweh his God considered to be evil. And he did not humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah gave him a message from Yahweh [to warn him].
13 Bende nongʼanyo ni ruoth Nebukadneza mane okete mokwongʼore gi nying Nyasaye. Ne toke obedo matek ta kendo chunye ne ok odewo mondo oduog ir Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasach Israel.
He would not return to Yahweh, the God that the people of Israel [said that they worshiped]. Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to solemnly promise using God’s name [to be loyal to him]. Zedekiah became very stubborn.
14 To bende jotelo madongo duto mag jodolo kod ji nomedo bedo joma ok jo-ratiro, ka giluwo timbe mamono mag oganda kendo ne gichido hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye mane osepwodho Jerusalem.
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and also the people [of Judah] became more wicked again, doing all the detestable things that the people of the other nations did, and causing the temple in Jerusalem that Yahweh had caused to be holy to become [an] unacceptable [place to worship him].
15 Jehova Nyasaye, ma Nyasach kweregi nooronegi wach kokalo kuom jootene kinde ka kinde nikech nokecho joge kod kar dakne.
Yahweh, the God whom the ancestors [of the people of Judah belonged to/worshiped], gave messages to his prophets many times, and the prophets told those messages to the people of Judah. Yahweh did that because he pitied his people and did not want his temple to be destroyed.
16 To negimedo jaro joote Nyasaye ka gichayo wechene kendo ka ginyiero jonabi mage nyaka mirima nomako Jehova Nyasaye kod joge maonge kaka dikony.
But the people continually made fun of God’s messengers. They despised God’s messages. They ridiculed his prophets, until finally God became extremely angry with his people, with the result that nothing could stop him [from destroying Judah].
17 Omiyo ne okelonigi ruodh jo-Babulon mane onego yawuotgi matindo gi ligangla e kama ler mar lemo kendo ne ok okecho wuowi kata nyako, ngʼat motegno kata jaduongʼ moti. Nyasaye nochiwogi duto e lwet Nebukadneza.
He incited the king of Babylonia to attack [Judah with his army]. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.
18 Nokawo gige lemo duto madongo gi matindo mane nitiere e hekalu mar Nyasaye, kod gik mane okan e hekalu mar Jehova Nyasaye gi gik moko duto mane okan e od ruoth kod od jodonge moterogi Babulon.
His soldiers took to Babylon all the things that were used in God’s temple—big things and little things, all the valuable things, and the valuable things that belonged to the king and his officials.
19 Ne giwangʼo hekalu mar Nyasaye kendo negimuko ohinga mar Jerusalem; mane giwangʼo ute ruoth duto kendo negiketho gimoro amora ma nengogi tek mane ni kanyo.
They burned the temple, and they broke down the wall surrounding Jerusalem. They burned all the palaces [in Jerusalem] and destroyed all the remaining valuable things there.
20 Nokawo jogo mane otony e nek mag ligangla noterogi e twech Babulon kendo olokogi wasumbinige kod mag yawuote nyaka ochopo ndalo mane jo-Pasia okawe loch.
Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers took to Babylon the remaining people who had not been killed with their swords. Then those people became the king’s slaves and his son’s slaves, until the [army of the] king of Persia conquered [the army of Babylonia].
21 Piny nobedo mamor koyudo yweyone mag Sabato, kinde duto mane odongʼ gunda, nyaka higni piero abiriyo orumo mana kaka wach Jehova Nyasaye nowacho gi dho Jeremia.
[Moses had said that every seventh year the people must not plant their fields; they must allow the soil to rest. But the people had not done that. So after the army of Babylonia destroyed Judah, ] the soil was allowed to rest. That continued for 70 years, fulfilling what Yahweh told Jeremiah and what Jeremiah had predicted/prophesied would happen.
22 E higa mokwongo mar loch Sairas ruodh Pasia, mondo ochop singo mar wach Jehova Nyasaye mane Jeremia okoro, Jehova Nyasaye nowuoyo gi chuny Sairas ruodh Pasia mondo ogol lendo e pinye duto koketo e ndiko kama:
During the first year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, in order that what Yahweh told Jeremiah would happen would occur, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write this and proclaim it throughout his kingdom:
23 Ma e gima Sairas ruodh Pasia wacho: “‘Jehova Nyasaye, ma Nyasach polo osemiya pinjeruodhi duto manie piny kendo oseyiera mondo agerne hekalu e Jerusalem manie piny Juda. Ngʼato angʼata kuom joge manie dieru, nyalo dhi kendo mad Jehova Nyasaye ma Nyasache bed kode.’”
“I, Cyrus, the king of Persia, declare that Yahweh, the God [who rules] in heaven, has enabled me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms of this world. And he wants me to [command that my workers] build a temple {a temple be built} for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of his people living among you people of Persia are allowed to go to Jerusalem. And I will pray that Yahweh will be with them.”
