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.
Terminado todo esto, salió Israel entero, todos los que allí se hallaban, a recorrer las ciudades de Judá; y quebraron las piedras de culto, cortaron las ascheras y derribaron los lugares altos y los altares en todo Judá y Benjamín, y también en Efraím y Manasés, hasta acabar con ellos. Después volvieron todos los hijos de Israel cada cual a su posesión en sus ciudades.
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.
Ezequías restableció las clases de los sacerdotes y de los levitas según sus divisiones, (designando) a cada uno de los sacerdotes y de los levitas, su función en los holocaustos y sacrificios pacíficos, y en lo tocante al ministerio, las alabanzas y cantos dentro de las puertas del Campamento de Yahvé.
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].
Una porción de la propiedad del rey estaba (destinada) para los holocaustos de la mañana y de la tarde; y para los holocaustos de los sábados, de los novilunios y de las fiestas según lo prescrito en la Ley de Yahvé.
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.
Mandó también al pueblo que habitaba en Jerusalén, que diesen a los sacerdotes y a los levitas las porciones correspondientes, a fin de que pudiesen dedicarse exclusivamente a la Ley de Yahvé.
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.
Cuando se promulgó esta disposición, los hijos de Israel, trajeron en abundancia las primicias del trigo, del vino, del aceite y de la miel y de todos los productos del campo; trajeron también en abundancia el diezmo de todo.
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.
Los hijos de Israel y de Judá, que habitaban en las ciudades de Judá, presentaron igualmente el diezmo del ganado mayor y menor, y el diezmo de las cosas santas que eran consagradas a Yahvé su Dios, e hicieron de ello grandes montones.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
En el mes tercero comenzaron a formar aquellos montones y terminaron en el mes séptimo.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Vinieron Ezequías y los príncipes a ver los montones y bendijeron a Yahvé y a Israel, su pueblo.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
Cuando Ezequías preguntó a los sacerdotes y a los levitas acerca de los montones,
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]!”
respondió el Sumo Sacerdote Azarías, de la casa de Sadoc, y dijo: “Desde que se ha comenzado a traer las ofrendas a la Casa de Yahvé, hemos comido y nos hemos saciado, y aún sobra muchísimo; porque Yahvé ha bendecido a su pueblo; y esta gran cantidad es lo que sobra.”
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Entonces mandó Ezequías que se hiciesen depósitos en la Casa de Yahvé. Los hicieron,
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.
y metieron allí fielmente las ofrendas, los diezmos y las cosas consagradas. El levita Conenías fue constituido intendente de ellos, y Semeí, su hermano, era su sustituto.
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.
Jehiel, Azarías, Nahat, Asael, Jerimot, Josabad, Eliel, Ismaquías, Mahat y Banaías eran inspectores, a las órdenes de Conenías y de Semeí, su hermano, según las disposiciones del rey Ezequías y de Azarías, príncipe de la Casa de Dios.
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.
El levita Coré, hijo de Imná, portero de la puerta oriental, estaba encargado de las ofrendas voluntarias hechas a Dios, para repartir las porciones consagradas a Yahvé y las cosas santísimas.
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.
En las ciudades sacerdotales estaban bajo sus órdenes Edén, Minyamín, Jesúa, Semeías, Amarías y Secanías, para repartir fielmente (las porciones) a sus hermanos, así grandes como chicos,
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.
exceptuando a los varones de tres años para arriba inscritos en las genealogías, y a todos los que entraban en la Casa de Yahvé, como lo exigía cada día, para cumplir los oficios de su ministerio, según sus clases.
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.
Los sacerdotes estaban inscritos en las genealogías, conforme a sus casas paternas, y los levitas de veinte años para arriba, según su ministerio y sus clases.
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.
Estaban inscritos en las genealogías también todos sus niños, sus mujeres, sus hijos, y sus hijas, de entre toda la asamblea, porque se consagraban exclusivamente al servicio sagrado.
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.
Para los sacerdotes, hijos de Aarón, que vivían en el campo, en los ejidos de sus ciudades, había en cada ciudad hombres designados nominalmente, para dar las porciones a todos los varones de entre los sacerdotes, y a todos los levitas inscritos en las genealogías.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
Así hizo Ezequías en todo Judá, y obró lo que era bueno y recto y verdadero ante Yahvé, su Dios.
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.
En todo aquello que emprendió respecto del ministerio de la Casa de Dios, la Ley y los mandamientos, obró con todo su corazón y tuvo éxito.
