2 Kings 23
1 Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
El rey dio orden y se juntaron en torno a él todos los ancianos de Judá y de Jerusalén.
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.
Y subió el rey a la Casa de Yahvé, y con él todos los hombres de Judá y los habitantes de Jerusalén, los sacerdotes y profetas; y el pueblo entero, desde los chicos hasta los grandes; y leyó delante de ellos todas las palabras del Libro de la Alianza, que había sido hallado en la Casa de Yahvé.
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.
Luego poniéndose de pie sobre el estrado renovó el rey la Alianza ante Yahvé, (prometiendo) andar en pos de Yahvé y guardar sus mandamientos, sus testimonios y sus leyes con todo el corazón y con toda el alma, cumpliendo las palabras de esta Alianza escritas en aquel libro; y todo el pueblo asintió a la Alianza.
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].
Después mandó el rey al Sumo Sacerdote Helcías, a los sacerdotes de segundo orden y a los guardianes de la puerta, que sacaran del Templo de Yahvé todos los utensilios que habían sido hechos para Baal, para Aschera y para todo el ejército del cielo; y los quemó fuera de Jerusalén, en los campos del Cedrón; e hizo llevar sus cenizas a Betel.
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.
Expulsó a los sacerdotes que los reyes de Judá habían instituido para quemar incienso en los lugares altos de las ciudades de Judá y en los alrededores de Jerusalén, como también a los que quemaban incienso a Baal, al sol, a la luna, a los signos del zodíaco y a todo el ejército del cielo,
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.
Sacó asimismo de la Casa de Yahvé la aschera, (la llevó) fuera de Jerusalén, al valle del Cedrón y la quemó en el valle del Cedrón, reduciéndola a polvo, y arrojó su polvo sobre los sepulcros de la plebe.
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.
Destruyó las habitaciones de los prostitutos que había en la Casa de Yahvé, donde las mujeres tejían pabellones para Aschera.
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.
Retiró a todos los sacerdotes desde las ciudades de Judá, profanó los lugares altos donde los sacerdotes quemaban incienso, desde Gabaá hasta Bersabee, y derribó los altares de los sátiros: el que estaba a la entrada de la puerta de Josué, gobernador de la ciudad, y el otro que se hallaba a la izquierda de la puerta de la ciudad.
Con todo los sacerdotes de los lugares altos no podían subir al altar de Jerusalén, aunque comían de los panes ázimos en medio de sus hermanos.
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.
Profanó el Tófet, situado en el valle de los hijos de Hinnom, para que nadie hiciera pasar a su hijo o a su hija por el fuego en honor de Moloc.
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.
Quitó los caballos que los reyes de Judá habían dedicado al sol, a la entrada de la Casa de Yahvé, junto a la habitación del eunuco Natanmelec, en el Parvarim, y entregó al fuego los carros del sol.
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.
El rey destruyó también los altares que estaban sobre el terrado del aposento alto de Acaz, erigidos por los reyes de Judá, y los altares que había hecho Manasés en los dos atrios de la Casa de Yahvé, y después de arrojarlos de allí, echó el polvo de ellos en el torrente Cedrón.
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.
Asimismo profanó el rey los santuarios que había al este de Jerusalén, al sur del Monte de la Perdición, que Salomón, rey de Israel, había erigido en honor de Astarté, ídolo de los sidonios, de Camos, ídolo de Moab, y de Melcom, ídolo de los hijos de Ammón,
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].
hizo pedazos las estatuas, cortó las ascheras y llenó el lugar donde estaban, de huesos humanos.
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.
Destruyó, además, el altar de Betel y el lugar alto erigido por Jeroboam, hijo de Nabat, que hizo pecar a Israel. (Destruyó) tanto el altar como el lugar alto; quemó el lugar alto, reduciéndolo a polvo, y quemó también la aschera.
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.
Cuando Josías miraba en torno suyo, vio los sepulcros que había allí en el monte y mandó sacar los huesos de los sepulcros, y los quemó sobre el altar, profanándolo conforme a la palabra de Yahvé pronunciada por aquel varón de Dios que había anunciado estas cosas.
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.”
Y preguntó: “¿Qué monumento es este que veo?” Los hombres de la ciudad le contestaron: “Es el sepulcro del varón de Dios que vino de Judá, y anunció estas cosas que tú acabas de hacer contra el altar de Betel.”
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.
Entonces dijo: “¡Dejadle; que nadie mueva sus huesos!” Así dejaron en paz sus huesos, con los huesos del profeta que había venido de Samaria.
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.
Josías quitó también los santuarios de los lugares altos de las ciudades de Samaria, erigidos por los reyes de Israel para irritar (a Yahvé); e hizo con ellas lo mismo que había hecho en Betel.
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.
Mató sobre sus altares a todos los sacerdotes de los lugares altos que había allí, y quemó sobre ellos huesos humanos. Después se volvió a Jerusalén.
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].
Entonces dio el rey a todo el pueblo esta orden: “Celebrad la Pascua en honor de Yahvé, vuestro Dios, conforme a lo que está escrito en este Libro de la Alianza.”
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.
Y nunca se celebró Pascua como esta desde los días de los Jueces que gobernaron a Israel, ni en todos los días de los reyes de Israel y de los reyes de Judá.
23 But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
Corría el año decimoctavo del rey Josías cuando se celebró esta Pascua en honor de Yahvé en Jerusalén.
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.
Josías extirpó igualmente a los nigromantes y a los que practicaban la magia; también los terafim, los ídolos, y todas las abominaciones que se veían en tierra de Judá y Jerusalén. Así cumplió las palabras de la Ley, escritas en el libro que el sacerdote Helcías había hallado en la Casa de Yahvé.
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.
Antes de (Josías) no hubo rey que como él con todo su corazón y con toda su alma y con todas sus fuerzas, se convirtiese a Yahvé, siguiendo en todo la Ley de Moisés; y después de él tampoco surgió otro igual.
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.
A pesar de esto Yahvé no desistió del ardor, de su gran cólera que tenía encendida contra Judá, a causa de todas las provocaciones con que Manasés le había irritado.
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.”
Por lo cual dijo Yahvé: “Voy a quitar de mi presencia también a Judá, como he quitado a Israel; y rechazaré a Jerusalén, esa ciudad que Yo había escogido, y la Casa de la que Yo dije: Allí estará mi Nombre.”
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’.
Las demás cosas de Josías, y todo lo que hizo, ¿no está esto escrito en el libro de los anales de los reyes de Judá?
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.
En sus días subió el Faraón Necao, rey de Egipto, contra el rey de Asiria, hacia el río Éufrates. El rey Josías le salió al paso, y (el Faraón) le mató en Megiddó, en el primer encuentro.
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.
Sus siervos lo llevaron muerto desde Megiddó y lo transportaron a Jerusalén, donde le sepultaron en su sepulcro. Entonces el pueblo de la tierra tomó a Joacaz, hijo de Josías, al cual ungieron y proclamaron rey en lugar de su padre.
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].
Joacaz tenía veintitrés años cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó tres meses en Jerusalén. Su madre se llamaba Hamital, hija de Jeremías, de Lobná.
32 Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
Hizo lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé, imitando todo lo que habían hecho sus padres.
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.
El Faraón Necao lo encadenó en Rebla, en el país de Hamat, para que no reinase en Jerusalén. E impuso al país una contribución de cien talentos de plata y un talento de oro.
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.
El Faraón Necao puso por rey a Eliaquim, hijo de Josías, en lugar de Josías, su padre, mudándole el nombre en el de Joakim. Y llevó consigo a Joacaz, el cual fue a Egipto y murió allí.
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.
Joakim dio la plata y el oro al Faraón, pero para pagar el dinero, según la orden del Faraón, tuvo que imponer al país una contribución, por lo cual exigió de cada uno del pueblo del país, según su valuación, oro y plata, para entregarlo al Faraón Necao.
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].
Veinticinco años tenía Joakim cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó once años en Jerusalén. Su madre se llamaba Cebidá, hija de Fadaías, de Ruma.
37 He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
Hizo lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé, imitando todo lo que habían hecho sus padres.
