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1 Αφού δε συνετελέσθησαν πάντα ταύτα, πας ο Ισραήλ οι ευρεθέντες εξήλθον εις τας πόλεις του Ιούδα και συνέτριψαν τα αγάλματα και κατέκοψαν τα άλση και εκρήμνισαν τους υψηλούς τόπους και τα θυσιαστήρια από παντός του Ιούδα και Βενιαμίν· το αυτό έκαμον και εις τον Εφραΐμ και Μανασσή, εωσού συνετέλεσαν. Τότε επέστρεψαν πάντες οι υιοί Ισραήλ, έκαστος εις την ιδιοκτησίαν αυτού, εις τας εαυτών πόλεις.
After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.
2 Και διέταξεν ο Εζεκίας τας διαιρέσεις των ιερέων και των Λευϊτών, κατά τας διαιρέσεις αυτών, έκαστον κατά την υπηρεσίαν αυτού, τους ιερείς και τους Λευΐτας, διά τα ολοκαυτώματα και τας ειρηνικάς προσφοράς, διά να λειτουργώσι και να δοξολογώσι και να υμνώσιν εν ταις πύλαις των σκηνωμάτων του Κυρίου.
Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.
3 Διέταξε και το μερίδιον του βασιλέως εκ των υπαρχόντων αυτού, διά τας ολοκαυτώσεις, διά τας πρωϊνάς και εσπερινάς ολοκαυτώσεις και διά τας ολοκαυτώσεις των σαββάτων και των νεομηνιών και των επισήμων εορτών, κατά το γεγραμμένον εν τω νόμω του Κυρίου.
The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].
4 Είπεν έτι προς τον λαόν τον κατοικούντα εν Ιερουσαλήμ, να δίδη την μερίδα των ιερέων και Λευϊτών, διά να ενισχύωνται εν τω νόμω του Κυρίου.
Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.
5 Και καθώς εξεδόθη ο λόγος, οι υιοί Ισραήλ έφεραν εν αφθονία απαρχάς σίτου, οίνου και ελαίου και μέλιτος και πάντων των γεννημάτων του αγρού· έφεραν έτι εν αφθονία τα δέκατα παντός πράγματος.
As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.
6 Και οι υιοί Ισραήλ και Ιούδα, οι κατοικούντες εν τους πόλεσιν Ιούδα, και αυτοί έφεραν τα δέκατα βοών και προβάτων και τα δέκατα των αγίων πραγμάτων των αφιερουμένων εις Κύριον τον Θεόν αυτών, και έθεσαν κατά σωρούς.
The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.
7 Εν τω τρίτω μηνί ήρχισαν να κάμνωσι τους σωρούς και εν τω εβδόμω μηνί ετελείωσαν.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 και ότε ήλθον ο Εζεκίας και οι άρχοντες και είδον τους σωρούς, ηυλόγησαν τον Κύριον και τον λαόν αυτού τον Ισραήλ.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Έπειτα ηρώτησεν ο Εζεκίας τους ιερείς και τους Λευΐτας περί των σωρών.
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 Και απεκρίθη προς αυτόν Αζαρίας, ο πρώτος ιερεύς, εκ του οίκου Σαδώκ, και είπεν, Αφού ήρχισαν να φέρωσι τας προσφοράς εις τον οίκον του Κυρίου, εφάγομεν εις χορτασμόν, και επερίσσευσε πλήθος· διότι ο Κύριος ηυλόγησε τον λαόν αυτού· και το εναπολειφθέν είναι η μεγάλη αύτη αφθονία.
Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”
11 Τότε είπεν ο Εζεκίας να ετοιμάσωσι ταμεία εκ τω οίκω του Κυρίου· και ητοίμασαν,
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 και εισέφεραν εν πίστει τας προσφοράς και τα δέκατα και τα αφιερώματα· επ' αυτών δε ήτο επιστάτης Χωνανίας ο Λευΐτης και μετ' αυτόν Σιμεΐ ο αδελφός αυτού.
Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.
13 Ο δε Ιεχιήλ και Αζαζίας και Ναχάθ και Ασαήλ και Ιεριμώθ και Ιωζαβάδ και Ελιήλ και Ισμαχίας και Μαάθ και Βεναΐας ήσαν επιτηρηταί, υπό την οδηγίαν του Χωνανίου και Σιμεΐ του αδελφού αυτού, διά προσταγής Εζεκίου του βασιλέως και Αζαρίου του επιστάτου του οίκου του Θεού.
Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.
14 Και Κωρή ο υιός του Ιεμνά του Λευΐτου, ο πυλωρός κατά ανατολάς, ήτο επί των προαιρετικών προσφορών του Θεού, διά να διανέμη τας προσφοράς του Κυρίου και τα αγιώτατα πράγματα.
Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.
15 Και μετ' αυτόν Εδέν και Μινιαμείν και Ιησούς και Σεμαΐας, Αμαρίας και Σεχανίας, εν ταις πόλεσι των ιερέων εμπεπιστευμένοι να διανέμωσιν εις τους αδελφούς αυτών κατά τας διαιρέσεις αυτών, εξ ίσου εις τον μεγάλον και εις τον μικρόν,
Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
16 εις πάντα τον εισερχόμενον εις τον οίκον του Κυρίου, το καθημερινόν αυτού μερίδιον, διά την εις τα υπουργήματα αυτών υπηρεσίαν αυτών, κατά τας διαιρέσεις αυτών, εκτός των αρσενικών αυτών, τα οποία απηριθμήθησαν κατά γενεαλογίαν, από τριών ετών ηλικίας και επάνω·
They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.
17 η απαρίθμησις δε των ιερέων και των Λευϊτών έγεινε κατά τον οίκον των πατριών αυτών, από είκοσι ετών ηλικίας και επάνω, κατά τα υπουργήματα αυτών, κατά τας διαιρέσεις αυτών·
The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.
18 και εις πάντα τα τέκνα αυτών, τας γυναίκας αυτών και τους υιούς αυτών και τας θυγατέρας αυτών, εις πάσαν την σύναξιν, οίτινες απηριθμήθησαν κατά γενεαλογίαν· διότι εν πίστει ηγιάσθησαν εις τα άγια.
They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.
19 Περί δε των υιών Ααρών των ιερέων εν τοις αγροίς των προαστείων των πόλεων αυτών, ήσαν εν εκάστη πόλει άνθρωποι διωρισμένοι κατ' όνομα διά να δίδωσι μερίδια εις πάντα τα αρσενικά μεταξύ των ιερέων και εις πάντα τα απαριθμηθέντα μεταξύ των Λευϊτών.
[Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.
20 Και ούτως έκαμεν ο Εζεκίας καθ' όλον τον Ιούδαν· και έπραξε το καλόν και ευθές και αληθινόν ενώπιον Κυρίου του Θεού αυτού.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 Και εις παν έργον, το οποίον ήρχισεν εις την υπηρεσίαν του οίκου του Θεού, και εις τον νόμον και εις τα προστάγματα, εκζητών τον Θεόν αυτού, έκαμνεν αυτό εξ όλης της καρδίας αυτού και ευωδούτο.
In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.

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