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.
Cuando hicieron todas estas cosas, todos los de Israel que estaban presentes salieron por las ciudades de Judá y quebraron las piedras sagradas. Talaron las Aseras y destruyeron los lugares altos y los altares hasta acabarlos en todo Judá y Benjamín, Efraín y Manasés. Después todos los hijos de Israel regresaron a sus ciudades, cada uno a su posesión.
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 instituyó la función de los sacerdotes y levitas según sus divisiones, cada una según el servicio de cada grupo, para los holocaustos y las ofrendas de paz a fin de que ministraran, dieran gracias y alabaran en las puertas del campamento de Yavé.
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].
También señaló la contribución del rey de su propia hacienda para los holocaustos de la mañana y cuando llega la noche, los sábados, las lunas nuevas y los tiempos señalados, según lo escrito en la Ley de Yavé.
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 a la gente de Jerusalén que diera la porción correspondiente a los sacerdotes y levitas a fin de que se dedicaran a la Ley de Yavé.
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 divulgó la orden, los hijos de Israel dieron muchas primicias de grano, mosto, aceite y miel, y de todo fruto del campo. Llevaron el diezmo de todo en abundancia.
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 vivían en las ciudades de Judá llevaron los diezmos de becerros y ovejas. También [llevaron] el diezmo de las cosas santas consagradas a Yavé su ʼElohim y lo apilaron en montones.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
El mes tercero comenzaron a hacer aquellos montones y los terminaron el mes séptimo.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Cuando Ezequías y los jefes fueron a ver los montones bendijeron a Yavé y a su pueblo Israel.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
Entonces 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]!”
El sumo sacerdote Azarías, de la casa de Sadoc, le respondió: Desde cuando comenzaron a traer las ofrendas a la Casa de Yavé, comimos, nos saciamos y sobró mucho, porque Yavé bendijo a su pueblo. Sobró esta gran cantidad.
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Ezequías mandó que prepararan cámaras en la Casa de Yavé, y fueron preparadas.
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.
Llevaban fielmente las ofrendas, los diezmos y las cosas consagradas. Encargaron al levita Conanías como jefe de esto, y como segundo, a su hermano Simei.
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.
Jeiel, Azazías, Nahat, Asael, Jerimot, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismaquías, Mahat, y Benaía eran supervisores bajo la dirección de Conanías y su hermano Simei, por orden del rey Ezequías y Azarías, jefe de la Casa de ʼElohim.
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 Imna, portero de la puerta oriental, tenía a su cargo las ofrendas voluntarias para ʼElohim, y la distribución de las ofrendas dedicadas a Yavé 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.
Edén, Miniamín, Jesúa, Semaías, Amarías y Secanías estaban a su servicio en las ciudades de los sacerdotes para repartir fielmente a sus hermanos, según lo que les correspondía, tanto al grande como al pequeño.
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.
Además estaban los varones anotados por su genealogía masculina, de tres años arriba, y de todo el que entraba a la Casa de Yavé a realizar su tarea diaria en su ministerio según sus oficios y 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.
También estaban los que eran contados entre los sacerdotes según sus casas paternas, y a los levitas de 20 años arriba según su oficio y por 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.
Ellos fueron contados con todos sus pequeños, sus esposas, sus hijos y sus hijas, toda la multitud, porque se consagraban fielmente en santidad.
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.
También para los sacerdotes hijos de Aarón, los cuales vivían en los campos alrededor de sus ciudades, los varones designados tenían el encargo de darles sus porciones a todos los hombres de los sacerdotes, y a todos los que eran de las familias de los levitas.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
Ezequías hizo de esta manera en todo Judá y obró lo bueno, recto y verdadero ante Yavé su ʼElohim.
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.
Buscó a su ʼElohim con todo su corazón en lo que emprendió en el servicio de la Casa de ʼElohim, según la Ley y los Mandamientos. Fue prosperado.
