2 Chronicles 36
1 Then the people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and appointed him as the king in Jerusalem.
Àwọn ènìyàn ilẹ̀ náà mú Jehoahasi ọmọ Josiah wọn sì fi jẹ ọba ní Jerusalẹmu ni ipò baba rẹ̀.
2 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months.
Jehoahasi sì jẹ́ ẹni ọdún mẹ́tàlélógún nígbà tí ó di ọba, ó sì jẹ ọba ní Jerusalẹmu fún oṣù mẹ́ta.
3 King Neco of Egypt [captured him and] prevented him from ruling any longer. He also forced the people of Judah to pay him a tax of almost four tons of silver and about 75 pounds of gold.
Ọba Ejibiti yọ kúrò lórí ìtẹ́ ní Jerusalẹmu, ó sì bù fún un lórí Juda, ọgọ́rùn-ún tálẹ́ǹtì fàdákà àti tálẹ́ǹtì wúrà kan.
4 The king of Egypt appointed Jehoahaz’s [younger] brother Eliakim to be the king of Judah. He changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. After Neco captured Jehoahaz, he took him to Egypt.
Ọba Ejibiti sì mú Eliakimu, arákùnrin Joahasi, jẹ ọba lórí Juda àti Jerusalẹmu, ó sì yí orúkọ Eliakimu padà sí Jehoiakimu, ṣùgbọ́n Neko mú Joahasi arákùnrin Eliakimu lọ sí Ejibiti.
5 Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 11 years. He did things that Yahweh his God considers to be evil.
Jehoiakimu sì jẹ́ ẹni ọdún mẹ́ẹ̀ẹ́dọ́gbọ̀n nígbà tí ó di ọba, ó sì jẹ ọba ní Jerusalẹmu fún ọdún méjìlá. Ó sì ṣe búburú ní ojú Olúwa Ọlọ́run rẹ̀.
6 Then the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They [captured Jehoiakim and] bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
Nebukadnessari ọba Babeli sì mú un, ó sì dè é pẹ̀lú ẹ̀wọ̀n láti mú un lọ sí Babeli.
7 Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers also took valuable things from the temple; they took them to Babylon and put them in king [Nebuchadnezzar’s] palace there.
Nebukadnessari kó nínú ohun èlò ilé Olúwa lọ si Babeli pẹ̀lú, ó sì fi wọn sí ààfin rẹ̀ ní Babeli.
8 A record of the other things that happened while Jehoiakim was ruling, the detestable things that he did, including the evil things that people said that he did, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’. After [he was taken to Babylon], his son Jehoiachin became the king [of Judah].
Ìyókù iṣẹ́ ìjọba Jehoiakimu, àwọn ohun ìríra tí ó ṣe àti gbogbo ohun tí a rí nípa rẹ̀, ni a kọ sínú ìwé àwọn ọba Israẹli àti Juda. Jehoiakini ọmọ rẹ̀ sì jẹ ọba ní ipò rẹ̀.
9 Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months and ten days. He did things that Yahweh considers to be evil.
Jehoiakini sì jẹ́ ẹni ọdún méjìdínlógún nígbà tí ó di ọba, ó sì jẹ́ ọba ní Jerusalẹmu fún oṣù mẹ́ta àti ọjọ́ mẹ́wàá ó sì ṣe búburú ní ojú Olúwa.
10 During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent [soldiers] to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.
Ní àkókò òjò, ọba Nebukadnessari ránṣẹ́ sí i ó sì mú un wá sí Babeli, pẹ̀lú ohun èlò dáradára láti ilé Olúwa, ó sì mú arákùnrin Jehoiakini, Sedekiah, jẹ ọba lórí Juda àti Jerusalẹmu.
11 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years.
Sedekiah jẹ́ ẹni ọdún mọ́kànlélógún nígbà tí ó di ọba, ó sì jẹ ọba ní Jerusalẹmu fún ọdún mọ́kànlá.
12 He did many things that Yahweh his God considered to be evil. And he did not humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah gave him a message from Yahweh [to warn him].
Ó sì ṣe búburú ní ojú Olúwa Ọlọ́run rẹ̀, kò sì rẹ ara rẹ̀ sílẹ̀ níwájú Jeremiah wòlíì ẹni tí ó sọ̀rọ̀ Olúwa.
13 He would not return to Yahweh, the God that the people of Israel [said that they worshiped]. Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to solemnly promise using God’s name [to be loyal to him]. Zedekiah became very stubborn.
Ó sì tún ṣọ̀tẹ̀ sí ọba Nebukadnessari pẹ̀lú, ẹni tí ó mú kí ó fi orúkọ Ọlọ́run búra. Ó sì di ọlọ́run líle, ó sì mú ọkàn rẹ̀ le láti má lè yípadà sí Olúwa, Ọlọ́run Israẹli.
14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and also the people [of Judah] became more wicked again, doing all the detestable things that the people of the other nations did, and causing the temple in Jerusalem that Yahweh had caused to be holy to become [an] unacceptable [place to worship him].
Síwájú sí i gbogbo àwọn olórí àlùfáà àti àwọn ènìyàn sì di ẹni tí ń dẹ́ṣẹ̀ gidigidi, pẹ̀lú gbogbo ìríra àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè wọ́n sì sọ ilé Olúwa di èérí, tí ó ti yà sí mímọ́ ní Jerusalẹmu.
15 Yahweh, the God whom the ancestors [of the people of Judah belonged to/worshiped], gave messages to his prophets many times, and the prophets told those messages to the people of Judah. Yahweh did that because he pitied his people and did not want his temple to be destroyed.
Olúwa, Ọlọ́run àwọn baba wọn ránṣẹ́ sí wọn láti ọwọ́ àwọn ìránṣẹ́ rẹ̀ síwájú àti síwájú sí i, nítorí tí ó ní ìyọ́nú sí àwọn ènìyàn rẹ̀ àti sí ibùgbé rẹ̀.
16 But the people continually made fun of God’s messengers. They despised God’s messages. They ridiculed his prophets, until finally God became extremely angry with his people, with the result that nothing could stop him [from destroying Judah].
Ṣùgbọ́n wọ́n ń kùn sí àwọn ìránṣẹ́ Ọlọ́run, wọ́n kẹ́gàn ọ̀rọ̀ rẹ̀, wọ́n fi àwọn wòlíì rẹ̀ ṣẹ̀sín títí tí ìbínú Olúwa fi ru sórí wọn, sí àwọn ènìyàn rẹ̀ kò sì ṣí àtúnṣe.
17 He incited the king of Babylonia to attack [Judah with his army]. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.
Ó sì mú wá sórí wọn ọba àwọn ará Babeli tí wọ́n bá àwọn ọ̀dọ́mọkùnrin wọn jà pẹ̀lú idà ní ilẹ̀ ibi mímọ́, kò sì ní ìyọ́nú sí àgbà ọkùnrin tàbí ọ̀dọ́mọdébìnrin, wúńdíá, tàbí arúgbó. Ọlọ́run sì fi gbogbo wọn lé Nebukadnessari lọ́wọ́.
18 His soldiers took to Babylon all the things that were used in God’s temple—big things and little things, all the valuable things, and the valuable things that belonged to the king and his officials.
Ó sì mú gbogbo ohun èlò láti ilé Ọlọ́run lọ sí Babeli, ńlá àti kékeré àti ìṣúra ilé Olúwa àti ìṣúra ọba àti ìjòyè rẹ̀.
19 They burned the temple, and they broke down the wall surrounding Jerusalem. They burned all the palaces [in Jerusalem] and destroyed all the remaining valuable things there.
Wọ́n sì fi iná sun ilé Ọlọ́run, wọ́n sì wó gbogbo ògiri ilé Jerusalẹmu, wọ́n sì jó gbogbo ààfin wọn, wọ́n sì ba gbogbo ohun èlò ibẹ̀ jẹ́.
20 Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers took to Babylon the remaining people who had not been killed with their swords. Then those people became the king’s slaves and his son’s slaves, until the [army of the] king of Persia conquered [the army of Babylonia].
Ó sì kó èyí tí ó kù lọ sí Babeli àwọn tí ó rí ibi sá kúrò lẹ́nu idà wọ́n sì di ìránṣẹ́ fún un àti àwọn ọmọ rẹ̀ títí tí ìjọba Persia fi gba agbára.
21 [Moses had said that every seventh year the people must not plant their fields; they must allow the soil to rest. But the people had not done that. So after the army of Babylonia destroyed Judah, ] the soil was allowed to rest. That continued for 70 years, fulfilling what Yahweh told Jeremiah and what Jeremiah had predicted/prophesied would happen.
Ilẹ̀ náà sì gbádùn ìsinmi rẹ̀, ní gbogbo ìgbà ìdahoro, òun sì ń sinmi títí àádọ́rin ọdún fi pé ní ìmúṣẹ ọ̀rọ̀ Olúwa tí a sọ láti ẹnu Jeremiah.
22 During the first year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, in order that what Yahweh told Jeremiah would happen would occur, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write this and proclaim it throughout his kingdom:
Ní ọdún kìn-ín-ní Kirusi ọba Persia, kí ọ̀rọ̀ Olúwa tí a tẹnu Jeremiah sọ bá à le ṣẹ pé, Olúwa run ẹ̀mí Kirusi ọba Persia láti ṣe ìkéde ní gbogbo ìjọba rẹ̀, ó sì kọ ọ́ sínú ìwé pẹ̀lú.
23 “I, Cyrus, the king of Persia, declare that Yahweh, the God [who rules] in heaven, has enabled me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms of this world. And he wants me to [command that my workers] build a temple {a temple be built} for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of his people living among you people of Persia are allowed to go to Jerusalem. And I will pray that Yahweh will be with them.”
“Èyí ni ohun tí Kirusi ọba Persia sọ wí pé: “‘Olúwa, Ọlọ́run ọ̀run, ti fún mí ní gbogbo ìjọba ayé yìí, ó sì ti yàn mí láti kọ́ ilé Olúwa fún òun ní Jerusalẹmu ti Juda. Ẹnikẹ́ni nínú àwọn ènìyàn rẹ̀ láàrín yín le gòkè lọ pẹ̀lú rẹ̀; kí Olúwa Ọlọ́run rẹ̀ kí ó wà pẹ̀lú rẹ̀.’”
