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.
Ahora que todo esto había terminado, todos los hombres de Israel que estaban presentes salieron a las ciudades de Judá, causando que los pilares de piedra se rompieran y los pilares de madera representaciones de Asera, derribando los lugares altos y los altares en todo Judá y Benjamín, así como en Efraín y Manasés, hasta que todos se fueron. Entonces todos los hijos de Israel volvieron a sus ciudades, cada uno a su propiedad.
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.
Entonces Ezequías puso en orden los turnos de los sacerdotes y levitas, cada uno en su división, en relación con su servicio, por las ofrendas quemadas y las ofrendas de paz, y por la ordenación de la adoración y por alabar a Dios; y sirvieran en las puertas de la casa del Señor.
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].
Y le dio al rey parte de su propiedad privada por las ofrendas quemadas, es decir, por las ofrendas de la mañana y de la tarde, y las ofrendas para el sábado y las lunas nuevas y las fiestas regulares, como se registra en la ley del Señor.
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.
Además, dio órdenes a la gente de Jerusalén para que les dieran a los sacerdotes y levitas la parte que les pertenecía por derecho, para que pudieran ser fuertes en el cumplimiento de la ley del Señor.
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.
Y cuando se hizo pública la orden, los hijos de Israel dieron de inmediato, en grandes cantidades, los primeros frutos de su grano y vino y aceite y miel, y del producto de sus campos; y tomaron en una décima parte de todo, una gran cantidad.
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.
Y los hijos de Israel y Judá, que vivían en las ciudades de Judá, vinieron con la décima parte de sus bueyes y ovejas, y una décima parte de todas las cosas consagradas que debían ser dadas al Señor su Dios, y los pusieron por montones.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
La primera reserva de cosas se dejó en el tercer mes, y en el séptimo mes terminaron.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
Y cuando Ezequías y los gobernantes vinieron y vieron toda la reserva de bienes, alabaron al Señor 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 hizo preguntas a los sacerdotes y levitas sobre el almacén de bienes.
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]!”
Y Azarías, el principal sacerdote de la familia de Sadoc, dijo en respuesta: Desde el momento en que las personas llegaron por primera vez con sus ofrendas a la casa del Señor, hemos comido lo suficiente, y más que suficiente, porque la bendición del Señor está sobre su pueblo; Y toda esta cantidad a sobrado.
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Entonces Ezequías dijo que los almacenes debían estar listos en la casa del Señor; y esto fue hecho.
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 en ellos pusieron todas las ofrendas, las décimas y las porciones consagradas, sin guardar nada, y sobre ellos estaba Conanias el levita, y a Simei, su hermano, le siguió.
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.
Y Jehiel, Azazias, Nahat, Asael y Jerimot y Jozabad y Eliel e Ismaquias, Mahat y Benaía eran supervisores, bajo la dirección de Conanias y Simei su hermano, por orden de Ezequías el rey y Azarías, el gobernante 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.
Y Core, el hijo de Imna el levita, el guardián de la puerta del este, tenía el control de las ofrendas dadas gratuitamente a Dios, y la distribución de las ofrendas del Señor y las porciones consagradas.
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.
Y debajo de él estaban Edén y Miniamin y Jesua y Semaías, Amarías y Secanias, en los pueblos de los sacerdotes, quienes se hicieron responsables de dar el reparto de las porciones, por turnos, a pequeños y 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.
Así como a todos los varones, de tres años y más, enumerados por sus familias, que entraron en la casa del Señor para hacer lo que se necesitaba día a día, para su trabajo especial con sus turnos.
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.
Las familias de los sacerdotes fueron nombradas por los nombres de sus padres, pero los levitas, de veinte años en adelante, fueron listados en relación a su servicio en sus turnos;
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.
Y en las listas estaban todos sus pequeños y sus esposas y sus hijos e hijas, todo la familia, porque se consagraban fielmente a la 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.
Y en cuanto a los hijos de Aarón, los sacerdotes, que viven en el campo en las afueras de sus pueblos, en cada pueblo diferente había hombres, inscritos por su nombre, para dar su parte de los bienes a todos los hombres, entre los sacerdotes, y a todos los que estaban incluidos entre 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.
Esto hizo Ezequías a través de todo Judá; hizo lo que era bueno, correcto y verdadero delante del Señor 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.
Y por todo lo que hizo, en relación con el servicio del templo de Dios y su ley y sus órdenes, recibió instrucciones de Dios y lo hizo con un propósito serio; Y por eso fue prosperado.
