2 Chronicles 15
1 Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.
Då kom Guds Ande yver Azarja Odedsson,
2 And he went out to meet Asa, and he said to him: “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.
og han steig fram for Asa og sagde til honom: «Høyr på meg, Asa og heile Juda og Benjamin! Herren er med dykk når de er med honom, og når de søkjer honom, då let han dykk finna seg; men um de vender dykk frå honom, då vender han seg frå dykk.
3 Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law.
I lange tider var Israel utan sann Gud, utan prest som lærde deim, og utan lov.
4 And when, in their anguish, they will have returned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and will have sought him, they shall find him.
Men i trengsla si umvende dei seg til Herren, Israels Gud, og søkte honom, og han let deim finna seg.
5 In that time, there will be no peace for those who depart and those who enter. Instead, there will be terror on every side, among all the inhabitants of the lands.
I dei tider kunde ingen draga uskadd ut eller heim, for det var stor røra millom alle som budde i landi.
6 For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.
Då vart dei sundstøytte, folk mot folk og by mot by; for Gud skræmde deim med alle slag trengslor.
7 But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
Men ver de frihuga og lat ikkje henderne siga; for dykkar verk skal få si løn!»
8 And when Asa had heard these particular words, and the prophecy of the prophet Azariah, the son of Oded, he was strengthened, and he took away the idols from the entire land of Judah, and from Benjamin, and from the cities that he had seized of mount Ephraim, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the portico of the Lord.
Då Asa høyrde desse ordi og den spådomen som Azarja, son åt Oded, sagde fram, då tok han mod til seg og fekk burt dei ufysne styggetingi frå heile Judalandet og Benjaminslandet og frå dei byarne han hadde teke på Efraimsheidi; og han sette i stand Herrens altar framfyre Herrens forhall.
9 And he gathered together all of Judah and Benjamin, and with them the new arrivals from Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon. For many had fled to him from Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.
So stemnde han saman heile Juda og Benjamin og deim ifrå Efraim, Manasse og Simeon som budde hjå deim; for ei mengd ifrå Israel hadde gjenge yver til honom då dei såg at Herren, hans Gud, var med honom.
10 And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
Dei samla seg då i Jerusalem i den tridje månaden i det femtande styringsåret åt Asa.
11 they immolated to the Lord on that day, from the best of the spoils and from the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand rams.
Og den dagen slagta dei offer for Herren av det herfanget dei hadde ført med seg, sju hundrad stykke storfe og sju tusund stykke småfe.
12 And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.
Og dei gjorde ei pakt um at dei vilde søkja Herren, sin fedregud, av alt sitt hjarta og heile si sjæl,
13 “But if anyone,” he said, “will not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, let him die, from the least even to the greatest, from man even to woman.”
og at kvar den som ikkje søkte Herren, Israels Gud, han skulde lata livet, anten han var liten eller stor, mann eller kvinna.
14 And they swore to the Lord, with a great voice, in jubilation, and with the blare of trumpets, and with the sound of horns,
Soleis gav dei Herren eiden sin med høg røyst og med fagnadrop og med ljom av lurar og horn,
15 all who were in Judah swore with a curse. For with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought and found him. And the Lord granted rest on all sides to them.
og heile Juda gledde seg yver den eiden, for dei hadde svore med heile sitt hjarta og søkte honom med all sin vilje; Og Herren let deim finna seg og gav landet fred til alle sidor.
16 Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.
Og jamvel Ma’aka, mor si, sette kong Asa av frå hennar dronningrang, av di ho hadde gjort eit styggjelegt bilæte for Astarte; han hogg ned det stygge bilætet, slo det i smulder og brende det i Kidronsdalen.
17 But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.
Men offerhaugarne fekk dei ikkje burt ifrå Israel; men like vel var hjarta til Asa heilstøypt so lenge han livde.
18 And whatever his father or he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord: silver and gold, and vessels for various uses.
Heilaggåvorne åt far sin og heilaggåvorne sine eigne flutte han inn i Guds hus, sylv og gull og ymse ting.
19 Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.
Det vart ingen ufred fyrr i det fem og trettiande styringsåret åt Asa.
