Fiawo 2 23
1 Ale fia la yɔ Yuda kple Yerusalem ƒe dumegãwo ƒo ƒu.
And they brought the king word again what she had said. And he sent: and all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem were assembled to him.
2 Eyi Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me kple Yuda kple Yerusalem ƒe ameawo, nunɔlawo kple nyagblɔɖilawo, tso ame gblɔetɔwo dzi va se ɖe ame gãtɔwo dzi. Exlẽ Nubabla ƒe Agbalẽ si wofɔ le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la me nyawo na wo.
And the king went up to the temple of the Lord, and all the men of Juda, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, the priests and the prophets, and all the people both little and great: and in the hearing of them all he read all the words of the book of the covenant, which was found in the house of the Lord.
3 Fia la tsi tsitre ɖe sɔti la gbɔ le ameawo ŋkume. Eya kple ameawo ɖe adzɔgbe na Yehowa be yewoadze eyome, alé eƒe sewo, ɖaseɖiɖiwo, kple ɖoɖowo me ɖe asi kple dzi blibo kple luʋɔ blibo, eye yewoawɔ nubabla sia ƒe nya siwo katã woŋlɔ ɖe agbalẽ sia me la dzi; eye dukɔ blibo la bla nu.
And the king stood upon the step: and made a covenant with the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies and his ceremonies, with all their heart, and with all their soul, and to perform the words of this covenant, which were written in that book: and the people agreed to the covenant.
4 Ale Fia la ɖe gbe na nunɔlagã Hilkia kple nunɔla bubuawo kple agbonudzɔlawo be woaɖe nu siwo katã wowɔ na Baal, aƒeli kple dziƒoŋunuwo katã la ɖa le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me. Etɔ dzo wo le Yerusalem dua godo le Kidron balime eye wòlɔ dzofi la yi Betel.
And the king commanded Helcias the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the doorkeepers, to cast out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that had been made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burnt them without Jerusalem in the valley of Cedron, and he carried the ashes of them to Bethel.
5 Eɖe trɔ̃nua siwo Yuda fia xoxowo ɖo be woado dzudzɔ ʋeʋĩ le nuxeƒewo le Yuda duwo kple du siwo ƒo xlã Yerusalem la ɖa, ame siwo do dzudzɔ ʋeʋĩ na Baal, ɣe kple ɣleti, ɣletiviwo kple dziƒoŋunuwo.
And he destroyed the soothsayers, whom the kings of Juda had appointed to sacrifice in the high places in the cities of Juda, and round about Jerusalem: them also that burnt incense to Baal, and to the sun, and to the moon, and to the twelve signs, and to all the host of heaven.
6 Eho aƒeli la ɖa le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la me, tsɔe yi Yerusalem godo yi ɖe Kidron tɔʋu la gbɔ. Etɔ dzoe le afi ma, tui wòzu wɔ eye wòkaka wɔ la ɖe ame gblɔewo ƒe yɔdowo dzi.
And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord without Jerusalem to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people.
7 Egbã ŋutsugbolowo ƒe xɔwo ƒu anyi, xɔ siwo nɔ Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me, afi si nyɔnuwo hã nɔna, nɔa kundruwo lɔ̃m na aƒeli.
He destroyed also the pavilions of the effeminate, which were in the house of the Lord, for which the women wove as it were little dwellings for the grove.
8 Yosia kplɔ nunɔla siwo katã nɔ Yuda duwo me la gbɔe eye wòna wodo gu nuxeƒewo katã tso Geba yi ɖase ɖe Beerseba afi si nunɔlaawo do dzudzɔ ʋeʋĩ le. Egbã legba siwo nɔ dua ƒe mɔmefia, Yosua ƒe agbo nu. Legba la nɔ agbo la ƒe miame.
And he gathered together all the priests out of the cities of Juda: and he defiled the high places, where the priests offered sacrifice, from Gabaa to Bersabee: and he broke down the altars of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Josue governor of tile city, which was on the left hand of the gate of the city.
9 Togbɔ be nunɔla siawo mewɔ subɔsubɔdɔwo le Yehowa ƒe vɔsamlekpui la dzi le Yerusalem o hã la, woɖua abolo maʋamaʋã kple nunɔla bubuawo.
However the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem: but only ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 Le esia megbe la, fia la do gu Tofet si nɔ Ben Hinom ƒe Balime, ale be ame aɖeke magate ŋu atsɔ via ŋutsuvi alo via nyɔnuvi awɔ dzovɔsae na Molek o.
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom: that no man should consecrate there his son or his daughter through fire to Moloch.
11 Eɖe sɔ siwo ŋuti Yuda fiawo kɔ na ɣelegba la ɖa le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ ƒe mɔnu. Wonɔ xɔxɔnu si te ɖe dumegã aɖe si woyɔna be Natan Melek ƒe xɔnu. Ale Yosia tɔ dzo tasiaɖam siwo ŋuti wokɔ na ɣelegba la hã.
And he took away the horses which the kings of Juda had given to the sun, at the entering in of the temple of the Lord, near the chamber of Nathanmelech the eunuch, who was in Pharurim: and he burnt the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 Fia la mu vɔsamlekpui siwo Yuda fiawo tu ɖe gbadzaƒe si le Ahaz ƒe xɔ la tame le fiasã la me kple vɔsamlekpui siwo Fia Manase tu ɖe gbedoxɔ la ƒe xɔxɔnuwo. Egbã wo kakɛkakɛ eye wòkaka kakɛawo ɖe Kidron bali la me.
And the altars that were upon the top of the upper chamber of Achaz, which the kings of Juda had made, and the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the temple of the Lord, the king broke down: and he ran from thence, and cast the ashes of them into the torrent Cedron.
13 Le esia megbe la, eɖe nuxeƒe siwo nɔ toawo dzi le Yerusalem ƒe ɣedzeƒe kple Gbegblẽto la ƒe dziehe la ɖa. Fia Solomo tu nuxeƒe siawo na Astarɔt, Sidontɔwo ƒe nyɔnumawu vɔ̃ɖi la, na Kemos, Moabtɔwo ƒe mawu vɔ̃ɖi la kple na Milkom, Amonitɔwo ƒe mawu nyɔŋu la.
The high places also that were at Jerusalem on the right side of the Mount of Offence, O which Solomon king of Israel had built to Astaroth the idol of the Sidonians, and to Chamos the scandal of Moab, and to Melchom the abomination of the children of Ammon, the king defiled.
14 Yosia gbã legbawo eye wòho aƒeliwo. Ekaka ameƒuwo ɖe teƒe siawo hedo gu teƒeawo.
And he broke in pieces the statues, and cut down the groves: and he filled their places with the bones of dead men.
15 Egbã vɔsamlekpui kple nuxeƒe si Yeroboam Gbãtɔ tu ɖe Betel esime wòhe Israel de nu vɔ̃ me. Egbã kpeawo wozu ʋuʋudedi eye wòtɔ dzo aƒeliwo.
Moreover the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove.
16 Esi Fia Yosia nɔ ŋku tsam gbe ɖeka la, ekpɔ yɔdo aɖewo ɖaa le to la ŋu. Eɖe gbe na eƒe amewo be woaɖe ƒuawo le yɔdoawo me eye woatɔ dzo wo le vɔsamlekpui si le Betel la dzi, ado gui ale be, nya si Yehowa ƒe nyagblɔɖila gblɔ da ɖi be adzɔ ɖe Yeroboam ƒe vɔsamlekpui dzi la nava eme.
And as Josias turned himself, he saw there the sepulchres that were in the mount: and he sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burnt them upon the altar, and defiled it according to the word of the Lord, which the man of God spoke, who had foretold these things.
17 Fia la bia be, “Yɔdokpe kae nye ema le afi ma?” Dua me tɔwo ɖo eŋu nɛ be, “Nyagblɔɖila si tso Yuda va gblɔ nu si nèwɔ fifia da ɖi be adzɔ ɖe vɔsamlekpui sia dzi le Betel la ƒe yɔdoe!”
And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of Bethel.
18 Ale Fia Yosia gblɔ be, “Migaka asi eŋu o. Migaɖe fu na nyagblɔɖila la ƒe ƒuwo o.” Ale wometɔ dzo eƒe ƒuwo kple nyagblɔɖila si tso Samaria la ƒe ƒuwo o.
And he said: Let him alone, let no man move his bones. So his bones were left untouched with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 Yosia gbã nuxeƒe siwo nɔ toawo dzi le Samarianyigba blibo la dzi. Israel fia vovovowoe tu wo eye wodo dɔmedzoe na Yehowa. Ke azɔ la, Yosia gbã wo wozu ʋuʋudedi abe ale si wòwɔ le Betel ene.
Moreover all the temples of the high places, which were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord, Josias took away: and he did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
20 Ewu trɔ̃subɔlawo ƒe nunɔlawo ɖe woawo ŋutɔ ƒe vɔsamlekpuiwo dzi eye wòtɔ dzo ameƒuawo ɖe vɔsamlekpuiawo dzi hedo gu wo. Azɔ la etrɔ va Yerusalem.
And he slew all the priests of the high places, that were there, upon the altars: and he burnt men’s bones upon them: and returned to Jerusalem.
21 Fia Yosia gblɔ na eƒe amewo azɔ be woaɖu Ŋutitotoŋkekenyui la ɖe se siwo Yehowa, woƒe Mawu la na woŋlɔ ɖe Nubabla ƒe Agbalẽ la me la nu.
And he commanded all the people, saying: Keep the phase to the Lord your God, according as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 Womegaɖu Ŋutitotoŋkekenyui la kpɔ nenema tso Israel ƒe ʋɔnudrɔ̃lawo ŋɔli o eye womegaɖui kpɔ nenema le Israel fiawo kple Yuda fiawo ƒe fiaɖuɣiwo katã me o.
Now there was no such a phase kept from the days of the judges, who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, and of the kings of Juda,
23 Woɖu Ŋutitotoŋkekenyui sia na Yehowa le Yerusalem le Fia Yosia ƒe fiaɖuɖu ƒe ƒe wuienyilia me.
As was this phase that was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem, in the eighteenth year of king Josias.
24 Yosia tsi ŋɔliyɔyɔ, adzewɔwɔ kple legbasubɔsubɔ ƒomevi ɖe sia ɖe nu le Yerusalem kple anyigba blibo la dzi. Ewɔ alea elabena edi be yeawɔ se siwo katã woŋlɔ ɖe agbalẽ si Nunɔla Hilkia fɔ le gbedoxɔ la me la dzi pɛpɛpɛ.
Moreover the diviners by spirits, and soothsayers, and the figures of idols, and the uncleannesses, and the abominations, that had been in the land of Juda, and Jerusalem, Josias took away: that he might perform the words of the law, that were written in the book which Helcias the priest had found in the temple of the Lord.
25 Fia bubu aɖeke meganɔ anyi si trɔ ɖe Yehowa gbɔ eye wòwɔ Mose ƒe sewo katã dzi o eye fia siwo kplɔ Yosia ɖo hã dometɔ aɖeke mete ɖe ale si Yosia ɖo to Yehowa la ŋu o.
There was no king before him like unto him, that returned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with ail his strength, according to all the law of Moses: neither after him did there arise any like him.
26 Ke Yehowa ƒe dziku sesẽ si wòdo ɖe Yuda ŋu le Manase ƒe nu vɔ̃wo ta la dzi meɖe o
But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him.
27 elabena Yehowa gblɔ be, “Matsrɔ̃ Yuda abe ale si metsrɔ̃ Israel ene eye maɖe asi le Yerusalem, du si metia kple gbedoxɔ si megblɔ be enye tɔnye la ŋu.”
And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.
28 Woŋlɔ Fia Yosia ƒe ŋutinya mamlɛa ɖe Yuda fiawo ƒe ŋutinyagbalẽ me.
Now the rest of the acts of Josias, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda?
29 Le ŋkeke mawo me la, Egipte fia Farao Neko ho yi Frat tɔsisi la to be yeakpe ɖe Asiria fia ŋu. Fia Yosia ho yi be yeawɔ aʋa kplii, ke Fia Farao Neko wu Fia Yosia esi wòkpɔe le Megido.
In his days Pharao Nechao king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josias went to meet him: and was slain at Mageddo, when he had seen him.
30 Fia Yosia ŋumewo kɔ eƒe kukua ɖe tasiaɖam me tso Megido va Yerusalem eye woɖii ɖe yɔdo si eya ŋutɔ tia da ɖi la me. Dukɔa tia Fia Yosia ƒe vi, Yehoahaz si ami nɛ heɖoe fia ɖe fofoa teƒe.
And his servants carried him dead from Mageddo: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in Iris own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Joachaz the son of Josias: and they anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
31 Yehoahaz xɔ ƒe blaeve-vɔ-etɔ̃ esi wòzu fia; eɖu fia le Yerusalem ɣleti etɔ̃. Dadaa ŋkɔe nye Hamutal, Yeremia ƒe vinyɔnu. Etso Libna.
Joachaz was three and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Amital, the daughter of Jeremias of Lobna.
32 Ewɔ nu vɔ̃ le Yehowa ŋkume abe ale si fofoawo hã wɔ ene.
And he did evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 Egipte fia, Farao Neko lée de gaxɔ me le Ribla le Hamat ale be magaɖu fia le Yerusalem o. Hekpe ɖe esia ŋu la, ebla fe si ƒe home nye klosalo kilo akpe etɔ̃ alafa ene kple sika kilo blaetɔ̃-vɔ-ene la na Yuda.
And Pharao Nechao bound him at Rebla, which is in the land of Emath, that he should not reign in Jerusalem: and he set a fine upon the land, of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 Egipte fia la tia Eliakim, Fia Yosia ƒe viŋutsu bubu be wòaɖu fia le Yerusalem eye wòtrɔ ŋkɔ nɛ wòzu Yehoyakim. Ekplɔ Fia Yehoahaz yi Egipte, afi si wòku ɖo.
And Pharao Nechao made Eliacim the son of Josias king in the room of Josias his father: and turned his name to Joakim. And he took Joachaz away and carried him into Egypt, and he died there.
35 Fia Yehoyakim ma ga home si Egipte fia bla na dukɔa la na eteviwo, ame sia ame ɖe eƒe ŋutete nu be wòate ŋu akpɔ ga la axe na Egipte fia.
And Joakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharao, after he had taxed the land for every man, to contribute according to the commandment of Pharao: and he exacted both the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every man according to his ability: to give to Pharao Nechao.
36 Yehoyakim xɔ ƒe blaeve vɔ atɔ̃ esi wòzu fia; eɖu fia le Yerusalem ƒe wuiɖekɛ. Dadae nye Zebida, Pedaya vinyɔnu. Etso Ruma.
Joakim was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Zebida the daughter of Phadaia of Ruma.
37 Ewɔ nu vɔ̃ le Yehowa ŋkume, abe ale si fofoawo wɔ ene.
And he did evil before the Lord according to all that his fathers had done.
