2 Chronicles 34
1 Josiah was eight years old when he became the king [of Judah]. He ruled from Jerusalem for 31 years.
| یوشیا هشت ساله بود که پادشاه شد و سی و یک سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. |
2 He did things that were pleasing to Yahweh and conducted his life like his ancestor King David had done. He fully obeyed [IDM] all the laws of God.
| او مانند جدش داوود مطابق میل خداوند عمل می‌کرد و از دستورهای خدا اطاعت کامل می‌نمود. |
3 When he had been ruling for almost eight years, while he was still a young man, he began to worship God like his ancestor [King] David had done. Four years later, he began to get rid of all the pagan shrines on hilltops in Jerusalem and in [other places in] Judah, and the poles to [honor the goddess] Asherah, and the carved idols and statues of gods.
| یوشیا در سال هشتم سلطنت خود، یعنی در سن شانزده سالگی به پیروی از خدای جدش داوود پرداخت و چهار سال بعد شروع کرد به پاک نمودن یهودا و اورشلیم از بت‌پرستی. او بتکده‌های روی تپه‌ها و بتهای شرم‌آور اشیره و سایر بتها را از میان برداشت. |
4 While he directed them, his workers tore down the altars where people worshiped Baal. They smashed the altars that were near those altars, where people burned incense. They smashed the poles [honor the goddess] Asherah and the idols and statues. They smashed them to bits and scattered the bits over the graves of those who had offered sacrifices to them.
| به دستور او مذبحهای بعل را خراب کردند و مذبحهای بخور و بتهای شرم‌آور اشیره و سایر بتها را خرد نموده، گرد آنها را روی قبرهای کسانی که برای آنها قربانی می‌کردند، پاشیدند. |
5 They burned the bones of the priests [who had offered sacrifices]; they burned them on their own altars. In that way Josiah caused Jerusalem and other places in Judah to be acceptable places to worship Yahweh again.
| او استخوانهای کاهنان بت‌پرست را روی مذبحهای خودشان سوزانید و بدین وسیله یهودا و اورشلیم را پاکسازی کرد. |
6 In the towns in [the tribes of] Manasseh, Ephraim, and Simeon, and as far [north] as [the tribe of] Naphtali and in the ruins around all those towns,
| یوشیا به شهرهای قبیلهٔ منسی، افرایم و شمعون و حتی تا سرزمین دور افتادهٔ نفتالی نیز رفت و در آنجا و خرابه‌های اطراف نیز همین کار را کرد. |
7 Josiah’s [workers] tore down the pagan altars and the poles to [honor the goddess] Asherah, and crushed the idols to powder. They also smashed to pieces all the altars for burning incense throughout Israel. Then Josiah returned to Jerusalem.
| او در سراسر اسرائیل مذبحهای بت‌پرستان را منهدم نمود، بتهای شرم‌آور اشیره و سایر بتها را در هم کوبید و مذبحهای بخور را در هم شکست. سپس به اورشلیم بازگشت. |
8 When Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, he [did something else to] cause the land and the temple to be acceptable places to worship Yahweh. He sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah and Maaseiah the governor of the city and Joah the son of Joahaz, who wrote on a scroll what happened in the city, to repair the temple of Yahweh.
| یوشیا در سال هجدهم سلطنت خود، بعد از پاکسازی مملکت و خانهٔ خدا، شافان (پسر اصلیا) و معسیا شهردار اورشلیم و یوآخ (پسر یوآحاز) وقایع‌نگار را مأمور تعمیر خانهٔ خداوند، خدای خود کرد. |
9 They went to Hilkiah the Supreme Priest and gave him the money that had been brought to the temple. That was the money that the descendants of Levi who guarded the doors of the temple had collected from the people of [the tribes of] Manasseh and Ephraim and [other places in northern] Israel, and also from all the people in Jerusalem and other places in the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
| آنها برای انجام این کار به جمع‌آوری هدایا پرداختند. لاویانی که در برابر درهای خانهٔ خدا نگهبانی می‌دادند هدایایی را که مردم قبایل منسی، افرایم و بقیه بنی‌اسرائیل و همچنین ساکنان یهودا و بنیامین و اورشلیم می‌آوردند، تحویل می‌گرفتند و نزد حلقیا، کاهن اعظم می‌بردند. |
10 Then Hilkiah gave some of the money to the men who had been appointed to supervise the work of repairing the temple. The supervisors paid the men who did the repair work.
| سپس آن هدایا به ناظران ساختمانی خانهٔ خداوند سپرده می‌شد تا با آن، اجرت نجارها و بناها را بدهند و مصالح ساختمانی از قبیل سنگهای تراشیده، تیر و الوار بخرند و با آنها خانهٔ خدا را که پادشاهان قبلی یهودا خراب کرده بودند بازسازی کنند. |
11 They also gave some of the money to the carpenters and builders to buy the cut stones and the timber for the joists and the beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to decay.
12 The workers did their work faithfully. Their supervisors were Jahath and Obadiah, who were descendants of [Levi’s son] Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, who were descendants of [Levi’s son] Kohath. All the other descendants of Levi, those who played musical instruments well,
| همهٔ افراد با صداقت کار می‌کردند و کسانی که بر کار آنها نظارت می‌نمودند عبارت بودند از: یحت و عوبدیای لاوی از طایفهٔ مراری؛ زکریا و مشلام از طایفهٔ قهات. از لاویان نوازنده برای نظارت بر کار باربران و سایر کارگران استفاده می‌شد. عده‌ای دیگر از لاویان نیز کاتب و نگهبان بودند. |
13 supervised all the workers as they did their various jobs. Some of the descendants of Levi were secretaries and some kept records and some guarded the gates [of the temple].
14 While they were giving to the supervisors the money that had been taken to the temple, Hilkiah the [Supreme] Priest found a scroll on which were written the laws that Yahweh had told Moses to give to the people.
| هنگامی که هدایا را از خانهٔ خداوند بیرون می‌بردند، حلقیا، کاهن اعظم، کتاب تورات موسی را که شریعت خداوند در آن نوشته شده بود پیدا کرد. |
15 So Hilkiah said to Shaphan, “I have found in the temple a scroll on which are written the laws [that God gave to Moses]!” Then Hilkiah gave the scroll to Shaphan.
| حلقیا به شافان، کاتب دربار گفت: «در خانهٔ خداوند کتاب تورات را پیدا کرده‌ام!» و کتاب را به شافان داد. |
16 Shaphan [took the scroll] to the king and said to him, “Your officials are doing everything that you told them to do.
| شافان با آن کتاب نزد پادشاه آمد و چنین گزارش داد: «مأموران تو وظیفهٔ خود را به خوبی انجام می‌دهند. |
17 They have taken the money that was in the temple, and they have given it to the men who will supervise the workers who will repair the temple.”
| آنها صندوقهای هدایا را که در خانۀ خداوند بود گشودند و آنها را شمردند و به دست ناظران و کارگران سپردند.» |
18 Then Shaphan said to the king, “[I have brought to you] a scroll [that] Hilkiah gave to me.” And Shaphan started to read it to the king.
| سپس دربارهٔ کتابی که حلقیا به او داده بود صحبت کرد و آن را برای پادشاه خواند. |
19 When the king heard the laws [that were written in the scroll], he tore his clothes [because he was very dismayed/worried].
| وقتی پادشاه کلمات تورات را شنید، از شدت ناراحتی لباس خود را درید، |
20 Then he gave these instructions to Hilkiah, to Shaphan’s son Ahikam, to Micah’s son Abdon, to Shaphan, and to Asaiah the king’s special advisor:
| و حلقیا، اخیقام (پسر شافان)، عبدون (پسر میکا)، شافان کاتب و عسایا ملتزم خود را به حضور خواست. |
21 “Go and ask Yahweh for me, and for all his people who are still alive in Judah and Israel, about what is written in this scroll that has been found. Because [it is clear that] Yahweh is very angry with us because our ancestors disobeyed what Yahweh said; they did not obey the laws that are written on this scroll.”
| پادشاه به آنها گفت: «از خداوند سؤال کنید که من و بازماندگان اسرائیل و یهودا چه باید بکنیم. بدون شک خداوند از دست ما خشمگین است، چون اجداد ما مطابق دستورهای او که در این کتاب نوشته شده است، رفتار نکرده‌اند.» |
22 So Hilkiah and the others went to talk with a woman whose name was Huldah, who was a prophetess who lived in the newer part of Jerusalem. Her husband Shallum who was the son of Tikvah, took care of the robes that were worn [in the temple].
| پس آن مردان نزد زنی به نام حلده رفتند که نبی بود و در محلهٔ دوم اورشلیم زندگی می‌کرد. (شوهر او شلوم، پسر توقهت و نوه حسره، خیاط دربار بود.) وقتی جریان امر را برای حلده تعریف کردند، |
23 [When they told her what the king had said, ] she said to them, “This is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], says: ‘Go back and tell the king who sent you
| حلده به ایشان گفت که نزد پادشاه بازگردند و این پیغام را از جانب خداوند، خدای اسرائیل به او بدهند. |
24 that this is what Yahweh says: “Listen to this carefully. I am going to cause a disaster to strike Jerusalem and all the people who live here. I will cause them to experience the curses that were written in the scroll that was read to the king of Judah.
| «من این شهر و ساکنانش را به تمام لعنتهایی که از این کتاب برای تو خوانده شد، گرفتار خواهم ساخت. |
25 I will do that because they have rejected me, and they burn incense to [honor] other gods. They have caused me to become very angry because of all the idols that they have made (OR, because of all the wicked things that they have done), [and my anger is like] a fire that will not be extinguished.
| زیرا این قوم مرا ترک گفته، بت‌پرست شده‌اند و با کارهایشان خشم مرا برانگیخته‌اند. پس آتش خشم من که بر اورشلیم افروخته شده، خاموش نخواهد شد. |
26 The king of Judah sent you to ask what I, Yahweh, want. Go and tell him that this is what I, Yahweh, the God whom you Israelis worship, say about what you read:
| اما من دعای تو را اجابت خواهم نمود و این بلا را پس از مرگ تو بر این سرزمین و ساکنانش خواهم فرستاد. تو این بلا را نخواهی دید و در آرامش خواهی مرد زیرا هنگامی که کتاب تورات را خواندی و از اخطار من بر ضد این شهر و ساکنانش آگاه شدی، از روی ناراحتی لباس خود را دریدی و در حضور من گریه کردی و فروتن شدی.» فرستادگان پادشاه این پیغام را به او رساندند. |
27 “Because you heeded [what was written in the scroll], and you humbled yourself when you heard what I said to warn [about what would happen to] this city and the people who live here, and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you.
28 So I will allow you to die and be buried peacefully. I will cause a great disaster to strike this place and the people who live here, but you will not [be alive to] see it.”’” So they reported her reply to the king.
29 Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [other places in] Judea.
| پادشاه به دنبال بزرگان یهودا و اورشلیم فرستاد تا نزد او جمع شوند. |
30 They went up together to the temple with the leaders of Judah and many other people of Jerusalem and the priests and other descendants of Levi, from the least important to the most important ones. And while they listened, the king read to them everything that was in the scroll containing God’s laws that had been found in the temple.
| پس تمام کاهنان و لاویان، مردم یهودا و اورشلیم، کوچک و بزرگ جمع شدند و همراه پادشاه به خانهٔ خداوند رفتند. در آنجا پادشاه تمام دستورهای کتاب عهد را که در خانۀ خداوند پیدا شده بود برای آنها خواند. |
31 Then the king stood next to the pillar [at the entrance to the temple, where kings stood when they announced something important], and while Yahweh was listening, he repeated his promise to very sincerely and completely obey Yahweh and all his commands and regulations and decrees that were written on the scroll.
| پادشاه نزد ستونی که در برابر جمعیت قرار داشت ایستاد و با خداوند عهد بست که با دل و جان از دستورها و احکام او پیروی و اطاعت کند و مطابق آنچه که در آن کتاب نوشته شده رفتار نماید. |
32 Then the king said that everyone who lived in Jerusalem and from [the tribe of] Benjamin should promise that they also would obey those laws. And they did that, agreeing that they would keep the agreement that God, whom their ancestors had worshiped, had made with them.
| او همچنین از تمام اهالی اورشلیم و بنیامین خواست تا آنها نیز با خدا عهد ببندند، و ایشان نیز چنین کردند. |
33 Josiah [instructed his workers to] remove all the detestable idols from everywhere in the land of the Israeli people, and he commanded that all the people from Israel who were there should worship [only] Yahweh their God. And as long as Josiah was alive, the people did what was pleasing to Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors [worshiped].
| به این ترتیب، یوشیا سرزمینی را که به مردم اسرائیل تعلق داشت، از بتها پاک نمود و از مردم خواست تا خداوند، خدای خود را عبادت کنند. آنها در طول دوران سلطنت یوشیا از خداوند، خدای اجداد خویش پیروی کردند. |
