2 Kings 23
1 Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
Hijou chun lengpan Judah leh Jerusalem a lamkaiho jouse akoukhom’in,
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.
Chuin lengpa chun Judah le Jerusalem a mipiho jouse toh thempu holeh themgao hotoh mipi aneopen leh alenpen geijin Pakai houin’ah akilhon khompi in, hichea chun Pakai houin na kimu Pakai toh kitepna lekhabu chu lengpan mipi holah’a abonchan asimphong in ahi.
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.
Lengpa chu thuneina mun khompi panga chun adingin Pakai ang’ah chun kitepna chu panthah lah na aneipi in ahi. Aman mipi ho jouse koma chun, Pakai dan thupeh jouse, chondan ho jouse chu chu alungthim pumpiuva anitsohkei dingin ngehna aneiyin ahi. Hitihin aman lekha jolla kijih Pakai toh kitepna chu asudet’in ahi, chuleh mipi hojong chu ama cheh Pakai ang’a kitepna aneiyun ahi.
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].
Chuin lengpan Hilkiah thempulen chule amasanga neojo thempuho chutoh chuleh Houin kotngah hochu Baal houna leh Asherah leh vanlaijol thuneiho houna thilho jouse chu Pakai houin akona alahdoh dingun thu apen ahi. Lengpan hicheho jouse chu Jerusalem polanga Kidron phaicham munnah meiyin ana go-lhah sah tan ahi, avam hochu Bethel lang’a apo mangun ahi.
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.
Tumasang’a Judah lenghon ana pansah’u doi houna kimangcha thempu hochu aman ana sumang gamtan ahi. Ajeh chu amahon Judah gamsung jouse ah, pathen neilouho doiphung ang’a kilhaina ana bolji jiu ahi. Amahon Baal, nisa le lha, ahsi hole van thuneina hojouse ang’a kilhaina anabol ji jiu ahi.
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.
Hichun lengpan, Asherah kihouna doikhum jong Pathen Houin’a konin aladoh in Jerusalem pamlam Kidron phaicham’ah ahallha gam in ahi. Aman doikhom hochu agoibong in vut ason mipi kivuina lhan chunga athe thang tan ahi.
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.
Aman pasal kijoh hole numei kijoh ho achennao mun jouse chu aphelhan, Pakai houin sunga akijohnao doiphung jong asuhset pehin. Hichea numei hon Asherah ahounao ponlukhuh ding akhon nao ahi.
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.
Josiah in, Judah khopi dang danga cheng thempu hojouse chu Jerusalem’ah ahin polut’in ahi. Aman Geba le Beershaba kikah a um Pathen neilouho doiphung kilhaina gantha abolnao munchu asuhbohpeh in ahi. Aman Jerusalem a gamvaipo Joshua kelkot’a hunglutna munna kithoina doiphung jong ana sumangin ahi. Hiche kelkot hi khopi igahlutna a kelkot veilanga um’ah ahi.
Hiche Pathen neilouho doiphunga thempu ana pang hochu Jerusalem a Pakai maicham a na atohdiu ana phal pon ahi, amavang thempu dang hotoh cholsolou changlhah anehdiu vang aphal in ahi.
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.
Chujou chun lengpan Ben-hinnom phaicham a um Topheth maicham jong chu ana suboh peh in ahi. Hijehchun hilai munna hin koiman Molech anga katding’a achapa hileh achanu hileh meiya govam dia kilhaina abolsah tapouvin ahi.
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.
Aman sakol lim kisemthu Judah leng masa hon nisa houna a ana tundoh’u jong chu Pakai houin na konin ana ladoh in ahi. Hicheho chu Nathan-melech kiti nukiso thu kitanna a pipui khat in hotoh kinaija uma ahi. Lengpan sakol kangtalai nisa houna a anakatdoh jiu jong chu ana hal-lha tan ahi.
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.
Leng inpia Ahaz indan chungnung chungvuma inchung’a Judahte leng danghon ana sem’u maicham phungho chu, Josiah in ana suchip in ana subeiyin ahi. Chuleh Pakai houin hongcha teni a Manasseh in anasem maicham jong chu lengpan ana sumang in ahi. Aman ahel hellin ana vochip in, ahel hochu Kidron phaicham’a ana the jallin ahi.
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.
Solomon lengpan kidah umtah semthu doiho houna dinga Jerusalem solang chuleh Olive mol lhang langa maicham ana tundoh hochu Josiah in asuhboh peh in ahi. Solomon in ana semdoh doi hochu, Ashtoreth kiti kidah umtah Sidon mite numei pathen, Chemosh kiti kidah umtah Moab te pathen chuleh Molech kiti Ammon mite pathen ahiuve.
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].
Josiah in doikhom jouse ana volhun, chuleh Asherah ahounau doiphung jong ana phuhlhun, hijouchun hiche munho a chun mihem gule chang ho chu ana thekhum’in, asuhboh peh sohkei jin ahi.
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.
Nebat chapa Jeroboam in Israelte ana chonset sahna Bethel’a semthu pathen houna chu ana jep lhun ahi. Aman adoiphung’u chu ana halvam in chuleh Asherah doikhum jong ana hal-lhai.
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.
Hijou chun Josiah ahung kiheiyin ahileh mol lhang lang panga lhanmol tamtah hochu ahin mudoh in ahileh aman aguhou chu ahin chomdoh uva Bethel doiphung ho chu suhbohna dingin achung'uva guho chu ahal lhahsah in ahi. (Hiche thil sohhi Jeroboam chu kut nikhoa maicham panga ana din phat’a hiche thilsoh ding hi Pakai jin Pathen mipa ana phondohsah ahi). Chuin Josiah agah dadohleh Pathen mipa lhan chu agah mun, amachu hiche thilsoh ding ana phongdoh pachu ahi.
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.”
“Hiche lhankhu koija ham?” tia Josiah in adohleh, mipihochun, “Hiche lhan hi Judah a kona hung Pathen mipa tunia Bethel’a nahintoh dingho ana seidohpa lhan chu ahi,” atiuve.
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.
Hichun Josiah in adonbut in, “Hichu limsah hih un, agu jong suboi hih un,” ati. Hijehchun amahon ama guchu ahal tapouve, hitobang machun Samaria kon themgaopa a jong asuloh pouvin ahi.
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.
Hiche jouchun Joshia in Bethel’a abol bang bangin Samaria’a jong ana bollin, khopiho sunga pathen neilouho doiphung hole ainhou aban vohset peh in ahi. Hiche hochu Israel leng tamtah'in ana tundoh uva Pakai ana lunghan sah’u anahi.
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.
Hichun Josiah lengpa, pathen neilouho doi houna a thempu a pangho jouse chu amaicham chung tah uva athat’in mihem guhochu amaicham chunguva ahallin hiti chun ana suhboh peh in jouvin Jerusalemma ahung kile tai.
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].
Chuin Josiah lengpan mijouse het dingin thupeh khat aphongdoh in, “Pakai toh kitepna lekhabu dung juiyin nanghon Pakai na Pathen’u kom’a kalchuh kut namantei teidiu ahi,” ati.
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.
Israelten thutan vaihom ho khanglai apat’a Israel lengte khanglai le Judah lengte khanglai geija jong hitobang kalchuh kut hi ana kimang kha talou ahitai.
23 But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
Josiah leng chan kal kum somle kumget alhin kum a bou hiche kalchuh kut hi Jerusalem khopia hung kimang pan kit bep ahi.
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.
Josiah in gaochang miho jong asumang in, mitpheldoi them ho jong asubeijin, indoile milim doi kisem tapou chu Judah gamsung le Jerusalem’a amudoh thet umtah thil tapou chu asubei jingin, Pakai houin sunga Hilkiah thempupan ahin mudoh lekhajol sunga kisun Pakai thusei jouse chu atohdoh thei tei nadin aboltan ahi.
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.
Josiah masang in ama tobang leng alungthim pumpi le ahinkholhum keija chule athanei na jousea Pakai jinga kingaija Mose danthua kisei ho aboncha jui sohkei koima ana umpon, ama nungin jong koima dang ahung umkit tapon ahi.
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.
Ahijingvangin Pakai chu Judah chungah ana lunghang lheh jengin ahi. Ajeh chu Manasseh in thilphalou tamtah ana tohdoh a Pathen ana choudoh ahi.
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.”
Ajeh chu Pakaiyin hitin anaseije, “Keiman Israel katolmang banga Judah jong katolmang soh ding ahitai. Chule Keiman kalhendoh Jerusalem khopi leh ahouin a kamin kija dinga kana lhendoh jonghi kapaidoh ding ahitai.,” ati.
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’.
Josiah vaihom sunga thilsoh dangho jouse le anatoh jouse hi Judah lengte thusimbu kijihlutna lekhabua aumsoh keijin ahi.
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.
Josiah leng chanlaijin Egypt lengpa Neco chun Assyria lengpa kithopi dingin Euphrates vadung lang ana jontan ahi. Josiah in asepai ho akipuijin aga kisatpin ahi. Ahinla Neco in Megiddo muna akimaitopin ahileh Josiah lengpa chu amahon athattan ahi.
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.
Josiah noija sepai lamkai hon atahsa chu sakol kangtalai’ah Megiddo a konin Jerusalem’ah ahin polut’un ama lhankhuh achun anavui tauvin ahi. Hijouchun agamsung mipiten Josiah chapa Jehoahaz chu amakhel in leng achansah tauvin ahi.
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].
Jehoahaz chu leng ahung chan chun ama kum somni thum ana lhingtan ahi. Chuleh aman Jerusalem’ah lha thum leng ana changing ahi. Anuchu Libnah khopi akona Jeremiah chanu Hamutal ahi.
32 Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
Amahin apu apateu chonna bang bangin Pathen deilou jeng ana bollin ahi.
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.
Pharaoh Neco in Johoahaz chu Jerusalem’a avaihoplou nading in Hamath gam’ah Riblah mun’ah songkulla aheng in ahi. Chule aman Judah ten dangka pound sang sagi le ja nga chuleh sana pound som sagi le nga kai apeh dingin ana ngeh in ahi.
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.
Hichun Pharaoh Neco in Josiah chate lah’a khat Eliakim kitipa chu apa khellin leng chang ding in atung in a, amin jong akhel peh in, Jehoiakim asah tan ahi. Ahin Jehoahaz vang chu Egypt gam'a soh chang dingin apuijin hikom’a chun ahung thiden tan ahi.
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.
Pharaoh Neco kom’a kai apeh jouna dingun Jehoiakm in Judah mipite lah’a konin sana le dangka ama ama neile neilou dungjuijin adongin ahi.
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].
Jehoiakim chu leng ahung chan kum chun ama kum somni le nga ana lhingtan ahi. Jerusalema chun kum som le khat sung vai anahom in ahi. Anu chu Rumah khopi akon Pedaiah chanu Zebidah ahi.
37 He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
Ama jong hin apu apate bang bangin Pakai mitmu’n thilse jeng ana bollin ahi.
