2 Chronicles 31
1 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.
Setelah semuanya ini diakhiri, seluruh orang Israel yang hadir pergi ke kota-kota di Yehuda, lalu meremukkan segala tugu berhala, menghancurkan segala tiang berhala, dan merobohkan segala bukit pengorbanan dan mezbah di seluruh Yehuda dan Benyamin, juga di Efraim dan Manasye, sampai musnah semuanya. Kemudian pulanglah seluruh orang Israel ke kota-kotanya, ke miliknya masing-masing.
2 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.
Hizkia menetapkan rombongan para imam dan orang-orang Lewi, rombongan demi rombongan, masing-masing menurut tugas jabatannya sebagai imam atau sebagai orang Lewi, untuk mempersembahkan korban bakaran dan korban keselamatan, untuk mengucap syukur dan menyanyikan puji-pujian dan untuk melayani di pintu-pintu gerbang di tempat perkemahan TUHAN.
3 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].
Raja memberi sumbangan dari harta miliknya untuk korban bakaran, yakni: korban bakaran pada waktu pagi dan pada waktu petang, korban bakaran pada hari-hari Sabat dan pada bulan-bulan baru dan pada hari-hari raya, yang semuanya tertulis di dalam Taurat TUHAN.
4 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.
Ia memerintahkan rakyat, yakni penduduk Yerusalem, untuk memberikan sumbangan yang menjadi bagian para imam dan orang-orang Lewi, supaya mereka dapat mencurahkan tenaganya untuk melaksanakan Taurat TUHAN.
5 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.
Segera setelah perintah ini tersiar, orang Israel membawa dalam jumlah yang besar hasil pertama dari pada gandum, anggur, minyak, madu dan segala macam hasil bumi. Mereka membawa juga persembahan persepuluhan dari segala sesuatu dalam jumlah yang besar.
6 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.
Orang Israel dan orang Yehuda yang tinggal di kota-kota Yehuda juga membawa persembahan persepuluhan yang terdiri dari lembu sapi dan kambing domba, dan persembahan persepuluhan yang terdiri dari persembahan kudus yang telah dikuduskan bagi TUHAN Allah mereka. Semuanya itu diletakkan mereka bertimbun-timbun.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
Mereka mulai membuat timbunan itu pada bulan yang ketiga, dan mereka selesai pada bulan yang ketujuh.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Hizkia dan para pemimpin datang melihat timbunan itu, dan mereka memuji TUHAN dan umat-Nya, orang Israel.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
Hizkia menanyakan para imam dan orang-orang Lewi tentang timbunan itu,
10 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]!”
dan dijawab oleh Azarya, imam kepala keturunan Zadok demikian: "Sejak persembahan khusus mulai dibawa ke rumah TUHAN, kami telah makan sekenyang-kenyangnya, namun sisanya masih banyak. Sebab TUHAN telah memberkati umat-Nya, sehingga tinggal sisa yang banyak ini."
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Kemudian Hizkia menyuruh menyediakan bilik-bilik di rumah TUHAN dan mereka menyediakannya.
12 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.
Dan dengan setia mereka membawa segala persembahan khusus, persembahan persepuluhan dan persembahan-persembahan kudus itu ke sana. Konanya, seorang Lewi, mengawasi semuanya, dan Simei, saudaranya, adalah orang kedua,
13 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.
sedang Yehiel, Azazya, Nahat, Asael, Yerimot, Yozabad, Eliel, Yismakhya, Mahat dan Benanya adalah penilik di bawah Konanya dan Simei, saudaranya itu, sesuai dengan petunjuk raja Hizkia dan Azarya, kepala rumah Allah.
14 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.
Dan Kore bin Yimna, seorang Lewi, penunggu pintu gerbang di sebelah timur, mengawasi pemberian-pemberian sukarela untuk Allah, serta membagi-bagikan persembahan khusus yang untuk TUHAN dan persembahan-persembahan maha kudus.
15 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.
Di kota-kota imam ia dibantu dengan setia oleh Eden, Minyamin, Yesua, Semaya, Amarya dan Sekhanya dalam pembagian itu kepada saudara-saudara mereka menurut rombongan, kepada orang dewasa dan anak-anak,
16 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.
kecuali kepada setiap orang yang masuk ke rumah TUHAN, menurut hari-hari yang ditetapkan, menurut tugas jabatan yang ditugaskan kepadanya, dan menurut rombongannya, yakni mereka yang tercatat dalam daftar sebagai laki-laki yang berumur tiga tahun ke atas.
17 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.
Para imam dicatat dalam daftar menurut puak-puak mereka, sedang orang-orang Lewi yang berumur dua puluh tahun ke atas dicatat menurut tugas dan rombongan mereka.
18 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.
Para imam terdaftar dengan seluruh keluarga mereka, yakni isteri, anak laki-laki dan perempuan, seluruh kaum itu, karena dengan setia mereka menguduskan diri untuk persembahan kudus.
19 [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.
Bagi keturunan Harun, yakni imam-imam, yang tinggal di padang-padang penggembalaan sekitar kota-kota mereka, di setiap kota ada orang-orang yang ditunjuk dengan disebut namanya, untuk mengadakan pembagian kepada setiap orang laki-laki dari keluarga imam dan kepada setiap orang Lewi yang terdaftar.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
Demikianlah perbuatan Hizkia di seluruh Yehuda. Ia melakukan apa yang baik, apa yang jujur, dan apa yang benar di hadapan TUHAN, Allahnya.
21 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.
Dalam setiap usaha yang dimulainya untuk pelayanannya terhadap rumah Allah, dan untuk pelaksanaan Taurat dan perintah Allah, ia mencari Allahnya. Semuanya dilakukannya dengan segenap hati, sehingga segala usahanya berhasil.
