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.
E acabando tudo isto, todos os israelitas que ali se acharam sairam às cidades de Judá e quebraram as estátuas cortaram os bosques, e derribaram os altos e altares por toda Judá e Benjamin, como também em Ephraim e Manasseh, até que tudo destruiram: então tornaram todos os filhos de Israel, cada um para sua possessão, para as cidades deles.
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.
E estabeleceu Ezequias as turmas dos sacerdotes e levitas, segundo as suas turmas, a cada um segundo o seu ministério; aos sacerdotes e levitas para o holocausto e para as ofertas pacíficas; para ministrarem, e louvarem, e cantarem, às portas dos arraiais do Senhor.
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].
Também estabeleceu a parte da fazenda do rei para os holocaustos; para os holocaustos da manhã e da tarde, e para os holocaustos dos sábados, e das luas novas, e das solenidades: como está escrito na lei do Senhor.
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.
E ordenou ao povo, aos moradores de Jerusalém, que dessem a parte dos sacerdotes e levitas; para que se pudessem esforçar na lei do Senhor.
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.
E, depois que este dito se divulgou, os filhos de Israel trouxeram muitas primícias de trigo, mosto, e azeite, e mel, e de toda a novidade do campo: também os dízimos de tudo trouxeram em abundância.
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.
E aos filhos de Israel e de Judá, que habitavam na cidade de Judá também trouxeram dízimos das vacas e das ovelhas, e dízimos das coisas sagradas que foram consagradas ao Senhor seu Deus: e fizeram muitos montões.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
No terceiro mês começaram a fazer os primeiros montões: e no sétimo mês acabaram.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Vindo pois Ezequias e os príncipes, e vendo aqueles montões, bendisseram ao Senhor e ao seu povo Israel.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
E perguntou Ezequias aos sacerdotes e aos levitas acerca daqueles montões.
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]!”
E Azarias, o sumo sacerdote da casa de Zadok, lhe falou, dizendo: Desde que esta oferta se começou a trazer à casa do Senhor, houve que comer e de que se fartar, e ainda sobejo em abundância; porque o Senhor bendisse ao seu povo, e sobejou esta abastança.
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Então disse Ezequias que se preparassem câmaras na casa do Senhor, e as prepararam.
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.
Ali meteram fielmente as ofertas, e os dízimos, e as coisas consagradas: e tinha cargo disto Conanias, o levita maioral, e Simei, seu irmão, o segundo.
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.
E Jehiel, e Azarias, e Nahath, e Asahel, e Jerimoth, e Jozabad, e Eliel, e Ismachias, e Mahath, e Benaias, eram superintendentes debaixo da mão de Conanias e Simei seu irmão, por mandado do rei Ezequias, e de Azarias, maioral da casa de Deus.
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.
E Kore filho de Jimna, o levita, porteiro da banda do oriente, tinha cargo das ofertas voluntárias de Deus, para distribuir as ofertas alçadas do Senhor e as coisas santíssimas.
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.
E debaixo das suas ordens estavam Éden, e Miniamin, e Jesua, e Semaias, Amorias, e Sechanias nas cidades dos sacerdotes, para distribuirem com fidelidade a seus irmãos, segundo as suas turmas, tanto aos pequenos como aos grandes;
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.
Além dos que estavam contados pelas genealogias dos machos, da idade de três anos e daí para cima; a todos os que entravam na casa do Senhor, para a obra de cada dia no seu dia, pelo seu ministério nas suas guardas, segundo as suas turmas.
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.
E os que estavam contados pelas genealogias dos sacerdotes, segundo a casa de seus pais; como também os levitas, da idade de vinte anos e daí para cima, nas suas guardas, segundo as suas turmas:
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.
Como também conforme às genealogias, com todas as suas crianças, suas mulheres, e seus filhos, e suas filhas, por toda a congregação: porque com fidelidade estes se santificavam nas coisas consagradas.
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.
Também dentre os filhos de Aarão havia sacerdotes nos campos dos arrabaldes das suas cidades, em cada cidade, homens que foram contados pelos seus nomes para distribuirem as porções a todo o macho entre os sacerdotes e a todos os que estavam contados pelas genealogias entre os levitas.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
E assim fez Ezequias em todo o Judá: e fez o que era bom, e reto, e verdadeiro, perante o Senhor seu Deus.
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.
E em toda a obra que começou no serviço da casa de Deus, e na lei, e nos mandamentos, para buscar a seu Deus, com todo o seu coração o fez, e prosperou.
