2 Chronicles 15
1 Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.
Entonces el Espíritu de ʼElohim vino sobre Azarías, hijo de Oded,
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.
quien salió al encuentro de Asa y le dijo: Escúchenme, Asa y todo Judá y Benjamín: Yavé está con ustedes, si ustedes están con Él. Si lo buscan, será hallado por ustedes, pero si lo abandonan, Él los abandonará.
3 Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law.
Mucho tiempo estuvo Israel sin el ʼElohim verdadero, sin sacerdote que enseñara y sin Ley.
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.
Pero cuando se volvieron a Yavé, el ʼElohim de Israel, en su aflicción y lo buscaron, Él les permitió encontrarlo.
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.
En aquellos tiempos no había paz para el que salía ni para el que entraba, sino muchas aflicciones para todos los habitantes de las tierras.
6 For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.
Así que una nación era destruida por otra nación y una ciudad por otra ciudad, porque ʼElohim las turbaba con toda clase de adversidades.
7 But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
Pero esfuércense ustedes y no desmayen sus manos, porque hay recompensa para su labor.
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.
Cuando Asa oyó estas palabras y la profecía de Azarías, hijo de Oded, se animó y quitó los ídolos repugnantes de toda la tierra de Judá, Benjamín y las ciudades que tomó en la región montañosa de Efraín. Reconstruyó el altar de Yavé que estaba delante del patio de Yavé.
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.
Después los de Efraín, Manasés y Simeón, quienes vivían con Judá y Benjamín, se reunieron con ellos. Muchos de Israel se pasaron al [rey Asa] porque veían que Yavé su ʼElohim estaba con él.
10 And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
Se reunieron en Jerusalén el mes tercero del año 15 del reinado de 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.
Aquel día sacrificaron a Yavé 700 becerros y 7.000 ovejas del botín que llevaron.
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.
Hicieron un pacto solemne para buscar a Yavé ʼElohim de sus antepasados, con todo su corazón y su alma,
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.”
y que todo el que no buscara a Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, muriera, fuera grande o pequeño, hombre o mujer.
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,
Juraron delante de Yavé con gran voz, gritos de júbilo, trompetas y cornetas.
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.
Toda Judá se regocijó a causa del juramento, pues juraron con todo su corazón que lo buscarían con toda su voluntad. Y fue hallado por ellos, y Yavé les dio paz por todas partes.
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.
El rey Asa aun despojó a su propia madre Maaca de su dignidad real, porque hizo una imagen repugnante de Asera. Asa taló el ídolo repugnante, lo desmenuzó y lo quemó junto al torrente Cedrón.
17 But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.
Sin embargo, los lugares altos no fueron quitados de Israel, aunque el corazón de Asa se mantuvo íntegro todo su tiempo.
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.
Llevó plata, oro y utensilios a la Casa de ʼElohim, lo que su padre y él mismo consagraron.
19 Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.
No hubo guerra hasta el año 35 del reinado de Asa.
