< 2 Kings 23 >

1 Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
Yuda hina bagade Yousaia da Yuda soge fi amola Yelusaleme fi ilia ouligisu dunu amo huluane gagadole,
2 They went together to the temple, along with the priests and the prophets, and many other [HYP] people, from the most important people to the least important people. And while they listened, the king read to them all of the laws that Moses had written. He read from the scroll that had been found in the temple.
ili amola gobele salasu dunu huluane, amola balofede dunu huluane amola fi dunu huluanedafa (bagade gagui dunu amola hame gagui dunu) ilia da Debolo Diasuga gilisili asi. Ilia si da: iya, hina bagade Yousaia da Gousa: su Meloa amo ilia da Debolo Diasu ba: i, amo ganodini dedei huluane ilima idili i.
3 Then the king stood next to the pillar [where the kings stood when they made important announcements], and while Yahweh was listening, he repeated his promise to sincerely obey [DOU] all of Yahweh’s commands and regulations [DOU]. He also promised to (fulfill the conditions of/do what was written in) the agreement he made with Yahweh. And all the people also promised to obey the agreement.
E da hina bagade duni bugi amo dafulili lelu, e da Hina Gode Ea sia: nabawane hamomusa: , dafawane ilegele sia: i. E da mae fisili, ea dogo amola asigi dawa: su huluane amoga, e da Hina Gode Ea sema amola hamoma: ne sia: i, amoma fa: no bobogemusa: , dafawane ilegele sia: i. Amo hamoma: ne sia: i amo da Gousa: su Meloa amo ganodini dedei, e da amo huluane nabawane hamomusa: , dafawane ilegele sia: i. Amola dunu huluane da amo defele hamomusa: , dafawane ilegele sia: i.
4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the Supreme Priest and all the other priests who assisted him and the men who guarded the entrance to the temple to bring out from the temple all the items that people had been using to worship Baal, the goddess Asherah, and the stars. [After they carried them out, ] they burned all those things outside the city near the Kidron Valley. Then they took all the ashes to Bethel, [because that city was already considered to be desecrated/unholy].
Amalalu, Yousaia da gobele salasu ouligisudafa Hiligaia amola ea afoha gobele salasu dunu ili, amola Debolo logo holeiga sosodo aligisu dunu ili, ilia da loboga hamoi liligi Debolo ganodini dialu, amoga dunu da Ba: ile amola uda ‘gode’ Asila amola gasumuni ilima nodone sia: ne gadosu, amo liligi huluane gadili gaguli masa: ne sia: i. Yuda hina bagade da amo liligi huluane moilai hamega Gidalone Fago gadenene, amo laluga gobele salalu, nasubu amo Bedele moilaiga gaguli masa: ne sia: i.
5 There were many pagan priests that the previous kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the altars on the tops of hills in Judah. They had been offering sacrifices to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. The king stopped them from doing those things.
E da gobele salasu dunu, amo musa: Yuda hina bagade ilia da Yuda soge ganodini moilale gagai amola Yelusaleme gadenene dialu, amo ganodini ogogosu ‘gode’ oloda da: iya gobele salasu hamoma: ne ilegei, - gobele salasu dunu amo da Ba: ile amola eso amola oubi, amola gasumuni ilima gobele salalusu, amo huluane Yousaia da mugululi fasi.
6 He [commanded that] the statue of the goddess Asherah [be] taken out of the temple. Then they took it outside Jerusalem, down to the Kidron Brook, and burned it. Then they pounded the ashes to powder and scattered that over the graves in the public cemetery.
E da wadela: i uda ‘gode’ Asila agoaila loboga hamoi amo Debolo ganodini dialu, amo gadili gaguli asili, moilai hamega Gidalone Fago gadenene laluga gobele, ea gasa ganumu amo huluane nasubu su agoane hamoma: ne dadabilalu, dunudafa ilia bogoi uli dogosu sogebi amo da: iya dudulisisi.
7 He also destroyed the rooms in the temple where the temple male prostitutes lived. That was where women wove robes that were used to worship the goddess Asherah.
E da Debolo ganodini sesei dialu, amogawi hina: da: i bidi lasu uda amola dunu amogai esafulu, amo huluane wadela: lesi. (Amogawi, uda ilia da ogogole ‘gode’ Asilama nodoma: ne sia: ne gadomusa: , abula loboga amunasu.)
8 Josiah also brought [to Jerusalem] all the priests who were offering sacrifices in the other cities in Judah. He also desecrated the places on the tops of hills where the priests had burned incense [to honor idols], from Geba [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south]. Those priests were not allowed to offer sacrifices in the temple, but they [were allowed to] eat the unleavened bread that the priests [who worked in the temple] ate. He also [commanded that] the altars that were dedicated to the goat demons near the gate built by Joshua, the mayor of Jerusalem, [be] destroyed. Those altars were at the left of the main gate into the city.
E da gobele salasu dunu amo da Yuda moilai hisu hisu ganodini esalu, amo huluane Yelusalemega oule misi. Amola Yuda soge huluane ganodini, e da oloda amo da: iya ilia gobele salalusu, amo huluane wadela: lesi. Amola e da oloda huluane amo da goudi wadela: i a: silibu amoma nodone sia: ne gadomusa: gagui, amo huluane Yousaia da gagoudane sasali. Amo oloda ilia da logo holei amo Yosiua (moilai ouligisu dunu) ea gagui, amo gadenene ba: i. Amola amo logo holei da moilai mimogo logo holei amo ea fofadidi dialebe ba: i.
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Gobele salasu dunu moilai hisu hisu amoga esalu, amo e da mugululi fasilalu, amo gobele salasu dunu da Yelusalemega oule misini, ilia da Debolo ganodini mae hawa: hamoma: ne sia: i. Be ilia da yisidi hame sali agi, amo da ilia na: iyado gobele salasu hawa: hamosu dunu, ilima i, amo fawane da ilia moma: ne sia: i.
10 Josiah also desecrated the place named Topheth, in the Hinnom Valley, in order that no one could offer his son or daughter there to be completely burned for a sacrifice to [the god] Molech.
Hina bagade Yousaia amolawane da ogogosu ‘gode’ma nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi Hinome Fago ganodini diala, ea dio amo Doubede Sogebi, amo wadela: lesi. Bai amogawi musa: dunu ilia da ilia dunu mano o uda mano amo ogogosu ‘gode’ Moulegema gobele sasalalusu.
11 He also removed the horses that the [previous] kings of Judah had dedicated to worshiping the sun, and he burned the chariots that were used in that worship. Those horses and chariots were kept in the courtyard outside the temple, near the entrance to the temple, and near the room where [one of Josiah’s] officials, whose name was Nathan-Melech, lived.
Yousaia da hosi amolawane Yuda hina bagade ilia da esoma nodone sia: ne gadomusa: ilegei, amo huluane enodini asunasiagai. Amola esoma nodone sia: ne gadosu ‘sa: liode’, e da amo laluga gobele sali. (Amo ‘sa: liode’ ilia da Debolo gagoi ganodini, logo holei amola Na: ida: ne Milege (eagene ouligisu dunu bagade) ea diasu gadenene ouligi.)
12 Josiah also commanded his servants to tear down the altars that the previous kings of Judah had built on the roof of the palace, above the room where King Ahaz had stayed. They also tore down the altars that had been built by King Manasseh in the two courtyards outside the temple. He commanded that they be smashed to pieces and thrown down into the Kidron Valley.
Hina bagade Yousaia da oloda huluane amo Yuda hina bagade ilia da hina bagade diasu figisu da: iya, hina bagade A: iha: se ea sesei amo gadodili gagui, amola oloda huluane amo hina bagade Ma: na: se da Debolo gagoi aduna ganodini gagui, amo huluane e da gagoudane fasili, amola Gidalone Fagoa galagugudui.
13 He also commanded that the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of Olive Tree Hill, be desecrated. Solomon had built them for the worship of the disgusting idols—the [statue of the goddess] Astarte [worshiped by the people in] Sidon [city], Chemosh the god of the Moab people-group, and Molech the god of the Ammon people-group.
Amola oloda huluane amo hina bagade Soloumane da Yelusalemega gusudili amola Olife Goumia gadili (south) amo wadela: idafa ogogosu loboga hamoi ‘gode’ (Saidone fi ilia uda ‘gode’ A: siadalode, Moua: be fi ilia ‘gode’ Gimosie, A:mone fi ilia ‘gode’ Moulege) ilima nodone sia: ne gadomusa: gagui, amo huluane Yousaia da wadela: lesi.
14 They also broke into pieces the stone pillars that the Israeli people worshiped, and cut down the [pillars that honored the goddess] Asherah, and they scattered the ground there with human bones [to desecrate it].
Hina bagade Yousaia da gelega hamoi momogoi huluane gagoudane sali, amola wadela: i uda ‘gode’ Asila ea loboga hamoi agoaila huluane abusa: le fasi. Ilia bugisisi osobo amo Yousaia da dunu gasaga dedebolesi.
15 Furthermore, he commanded them to tear down the place of worship at Bethel which had been built by King Jeroboam, the king who persuaded the people of Israel to sin. They tore down the altar. Then they broke its stones into pieces and pounded them to become powder. They also burned the statue [of the goddess] Asherah.
Yousaia amolawane, e da ogogosu ‘godema’ nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi amo hina bagade Yelouboua: me (Niba: de egefe. E da Isala: ili fi wadela: le hamoma: ne oule asi) ea gagui liligi amo Yousaia da mugululi sali. Yousaia da oloda mugululi salalu, ilia gele gagoudane, su hamosu. Amola e da Asila e agoaila gobele sali.
16 Then Josiah looked around and saw some tombs there on the hill. He commanded his men to take the bones out of those tombs and burn them on the altar. By doing that, he desecrated the altar. That was what a prophet had predicted many years before when Jeroboam was standing close to that altar at a festival. Then Josiah looked up and saw the tomb of the prophet who had predicted that.
Amalu Yousaia da agolo damana lela ba: legagaloba, dunu bogoi amo ilia gasa da gele gelaboga diafulubi ba: i. Ea sia: ga ilia da amo gasa gadili gaguli asili, oloda da: iya gobele sali. Yousaia da amo oloda agoane wadela: lesisi. Musa: , balofede dunu afae da lolo nabe amoga, hina bagade Yelouboua: me da amo oloda bega: dafulili lelebeba: le, amo hou huluane didili doaga: i. Hina bagade Yousaia da ba: le gagale, balofede dunu amo da musa: hou ba: la: lu, amo ea bogoi gele gelabo amo ba: i.
17 Josiah asked, “Whose tomb is that?” The people of Bethel replied, “It is the tomb of the prophet who came from Judah and predicted that these things that you have just now done to this altar would happen.”
E amane adole ba: i, “Amo bogoi gele gelabo da nowa eala: ? Bedele fi dunu da bu adole i, “Amo da balofede dunu, e da Yuda sogega misi amola dia wali olodaga hamobe amo ba: la: lu, amo balofede dunu bogoi amo ea: bogoi gele gelabo.”
18 Josiah replied, “Allow his tomb to remain as it is. Do not remove the prophet’s bones from the tomb.” So the people did not remove those bones, or the bones of the other prophet, the one who had come from Samaria.
Yousaia da amane sia: i, “Amanewane yolesima! Ea gasa mae muguluma!” Amaiba: le, ilia amo balofede ea gasa hame mugululi, amola balofede dunu eno amo da Samelia sogega misi, ea gasa amolawane hame mugului.
19 In every city in Israel, at Josiah’s command, they tore down the shrines that had been built by the previous kings of Israel, which had caused Yahweh to become very angry. He did to all those shrines/altars the same thing that he had done to the altars at Bethel.
E da Samelia soge moilai huluane amo ganodini, ogogosu ‘gode’ma nodone sia: ne gadosu sogebi amo Isala: ili hina bagade ilia da hamobeba: le, Hina Gode da ougi bagade ba: i, Yousaia da Bedele moilaiga oloda hamoi mugululi fasi amo defele, amo oloda mugululi fasi.
20 He ordered that all the priests who offered sacrifices on the altars on the tops of hills must be killed on those altars. Then he burned human bones on every one of those altars [to desecrate them]. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Wadela: i gobele salasu dunu huluane, e da ilila: hawa: hamosu oloda da: iya medole legei. Amola oloda huluane amo wadela: ma: ne, e da amo da: iya dunu gasa udigili gobele sali. Amalu, e da Yelusalemega buhagi.
21 Then the king commanded all the people to celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh their God, which was written in the law of Moses that they should do [every year].
Hina bagade Yousaia da Yuda fima, ilia da Hina Godema nodoma: ne, Baligisu Lolo Nasu amo Gousa: su Meloa ganodini dedei defele, amo hamoma: ne sia: i.
22 During all the years that leaders ruled Israel and during all the years that kings had ruled Israel and Judah, they had not celebrated that festival.
Musa: bisisu dunu da Isala: ili ouligilalu amoganini amo esoha, amoga Isala: ili amola Yuda hina bagade ilia da Baligisu Lolo Nasu hamosu amo defele hame hamosu.
23 But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
Be wali, Yousaia ea ouligibi ode18 amoga, ilia da Yelusalemega Baligisu Lolo Nasu hamoi.
24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of all the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah who practiced sorcery and those who requested the spirits of dead people [to tell them what they should do]. He also removed from Jerusalem and from the other places in Judah all the household idols and all the other idols and abominable things. He did those things in order to obey what had been written in the scroll that Hilkiah had found in the temple.
Hina bagade Yousaia da Meloa amo da gobele salasu Ouligisudafa Hiligaia Debolo Diasu ganodini ba: i, amo sema huluane meloa ganodini dedei, amoga molole fa: no bobogemusa: dawa: i. Amaiba: le, e da gesami dasu dunu amola wadela: i ba: la: lusu dunu amola diasua ogogosu ‘gode’ liligi, amola loboga hamoi ‘gode’, amola ogogosu ‘gode’ma nodone sia: ne gadosu liligi huluanedafa mugululi fasi.
25 Josiah was totally devoted to Yahweh. There had never been [in Judah or Israel] a king like him. He obeyed all the laws of Moses. And there has never since then been a king like Josiah.
Hina bagade e agoai da musa: hame ba: i. E da ea dogoga amola ea asigi dawa: suga amola ea gasa huluanedafa, amoga e da Hina Gode Ea hawa: hamosu hamonanu. E da Mousese ea sema huluane nabawane hamosu. Amola e fa: no, hina bagade, e agoai hame ba: i.
26 But Yahweh had become extremely angry with the people of Judah because of all the things that [King] Manasseh had done to infuriate him, and he continued to be very angry.
Be hina bagade Ma: na: se da musa: wadela: i hou bagade hamobeba: le, Hina Gode da Yuda fima ougi bagade heda: i, amola waha amolawane Ea ougi da hame gumi.
27 He said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel. I will banish the people of Judah, with the result that they will never enter my presence again. And I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose [to belong to me], and I will abandon the temple, the place where I said that I [MTY] should be worshiped.”
Hina Gode da amane sia: i, “Na da Isala: ili fima hamoi amo defele Na da Yuda fima hamomu. Na da Yuda dunu bu mae ba: ma: ne, mugululi fasimu. Amola Na da Yelusaleme amola Debolo Diasu, Na fi dunu da amogawi Nama nodone sia: ne gadomusa: ilegei dagoi. Be wali Na da Yelusaleme amola Debolo diasu amo higale, fisiagamu.”
28 [If you want to know more about] [RHQ] all the other things that Josiah did, they are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
Yuda hina bagade Yousaia ea hawa: hamonanu eno huluane da “Yuda hina bagade Ilia Hamonanu Meloa” amo ganodini dedene legei.
29 While Josiah was the king of Judah, King Neco of Egypt led his army north to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the army of Egypt at Megiddo [city], but Josiah was killed in a battle there.
Yousaia da Yuda fi ouligilaloba, Idibidi hina bagade Nigou da Asilia hina bagade fidima: ne, ea dadi gagui wa: i amo Iufala: idisi Hanoga oule asi. Hina bagade Yousaia da Migidou moilai bai bagadega Idibidi dadi gagui wa: i ilia gusuba: i ahoasu amo hedofamusa: dawa: i, be amo gegesuga, e da medole legei dagoi ba: i.
30 His officials placed his corpse in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where it was buried in his own tomb, a tomb where the other previous kings had not been buried. Then the people of Judah poured [olive] oil on [the head of] Josiah’s son Joahaz, to appoint him to be the new king.
Ea dadi gagui wa: i ouligisu dunu ilia da ea bogoi da: i hodo amo ‘sa: liode’ da: iya ligisili, Yelusalemega bu gaguli misi. Amogawi, ilia da ea da: i hodo amo hina bagade bogoi uli dogosu sogebi amo ganodini uli dogone sali. Yuda fi dunu da Yousaia egefe Youaha: se amo hina bagade hamoma: ne, susuligi sogala: le ilegei dagoi.
31 Joahaz was 23 years old when he became the king [of Judah], but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah [city].
Youaha: se da lalelegele, ode 23 esalu, e da muni Yuda hina bagade hamoi. E da Yelusalemega esala, oubi osodayale agoane Yuda fi ouligilalu. Ea ame da Hamiudale (Yelemaia ea idiwi. E da Libina moilai bai bagadega misi.)
32 Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
E da ea aowalali ilia hou defele, Hina Godema wadela: le hamoi.
33 King Neco’s [army came from Egypt and captured him and] tied him up with chains and took him as a prisoner to Riblah [town] in Hamath [district], to prevent him from continuing to rule in Jerusalem. Neco forced the people of Judah to pay to him (7,500 pounds/3,400 kg.) of silver and (75 pounds/34 kg.) of gold.
Idibidi hina bagade Nigou da Libila moilai bai bagadega (Ha: ima: de soge ganodini) amogawi Youaha: se gagulaligili, e da Yuda dunu ema silifa defei 3,000 gilo amola gouli 30 gilo dabe ema ima: ne sia: i.
34 King Neco appointed another son of Josiah, Eliakim, to be the new king, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Joahaz to Egypt, and later Joahaz died there in Egypt.
Hina bagade Nigou da Yousaia egefe eno Ilaiagime, amo Yousaia bagia Yuda hina bagade hamoi. E da Ilaiagime ea dio afadenene, bu Yihoiagimi dio ema asuli. Hina bagade Nigou da Youaha: se amo Idibidi sogega oule asili, e da amogawi bogoi.
35 King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people [of Judah]. He collected more from the rich people and less from the poor people. He collected silver and gold from them, in order to pay to the king of Egypt what he commanded them to give.
Idibidi hina bagade da Yuda fi ilia ema su dabe ima: ne sia: i. Amo dabe hamomusa: , Yuda hina bagade Yihoiagimi da Yuda fi dunuma, liligi ilia gagui amo defele su dabe ima: ne sia: i.
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah [town].
Yihoiagimi da lalelegele, ode 25 esalu, e da muni Yuda hina bagade hamoi. E da Yelusalemega esala, ode gidayale agoane Yuda fi ouligilalu. Ea ame da Sibiuda (Bida: ia ea idiwi. E da Luma moilaiga misi.)
37 He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
Yihoiagimi da ea aowalali fi defele, Hina Godema wadela: le hamoi.

< 2 Kings 23 >