< 2 Tawarikh 36 >

1 Rakyat Yehuda memilih dan mengangkat Yoahas menjadi raja di Yerusalem menggantikan Yosia, ayahnya.
The people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, and made him king in Jerusalem in succession to his father.
2 Yoahas berumur 23 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem 3 bulan lamanya.
Jehoahaz was twenty-three when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months.
3 Nekho raja Mesir menawan dan mengangkut Yoahas ke Mesir, lalu ia menyuruh Yehuda membayar upeti sebesar 3.400 kilogram perak dan 34 kilogram emas. Kemudian ia mengangkat Elyakim saudara Yoahas menjadi raja, dan mengubah nama Elyakim menjadi Yoyakim. Kemudian Yoahas diangkutnya ke Mesir.
Then the king of Egypt removed him from the throne in Jerusalem and imposed a tax on Judah of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
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Neco, king of Egypt, made Eliakim, Jehoahaz's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem, and he changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Eliakim's brother Jehoahaz back with him to Egypt.
5 Yoyakim berumur 25 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem 11 tahun lamanya. Ia berdosa kepada TUHAN Allahnya.
Jehoiakim was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years. He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 Ketika Nebukadnezar raja Babel merebut Yehuda, ia menangkap Yoyakim, dan membawanya terbelenggu ke Babel.
Then Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, attacked Jehoiakim. He captured him and put bronze shackles on him, and brought him to Babylon.
7 Sebagian barang-barang berharga di Rumah TUHAN diangkut oleh Nebukadnezar dan ditaruh di dalam istananya di Babel.
Nebuchadnezzar also took some items from the Lord's Temple, and he put them in his temple in Babylon.
8 Kisah lain mengenai Yoyakim, termasuk perbuatan-perbuatannya yang keji dan kejahatan-kejahatannya, sudah dicatat dalam buku Sejarah Raja-raja Israel dan Yehuda. Yoyakhin putranya menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
The rest of what Jehoiakim, the disgusting sins he committed, and all the evidence against him, are written down in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. His son Jehoiachin took over as king.
9 Yoyakhin berumur 18 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem 3 bulan 10 hari lamanya. Ia juga berdosa kepada TUHAN.
Jehoiachin was eighteen when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for three months and ten days. He did evil in the Lord's sight.
10 Pada pergantian tahun, Raja Nebukadnezar mengangkut Yoyakhin ke Babel sebagai tawanan, dan barang-barang berharga di Rumah TUHAN dibawanya juga. Kemudian Nebukadnezar mengangkat Zedekia, paman Yoyakhin, menjadi raja atas Yehuda dan Yerusalem.
In the spring of the year, King Nebuchadnezzar summoned him and brought him to Babylon, along with valuable items from the Lord's Temple, and he made Jehoiachin's uncle Zedekiah king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekia berumur 21 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda. Ia memerintah di Yerusalem 11 tahun lamanya.
Zedekiah was twenty-one when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eleven years.
12 Ia juga berdosa kepada TUHAN Allahnya. Ia tidak mau merendahkan diri dan tidak menuruti Nabi Yeremia yang menyampaikan pesan dari TUHAN kepadanya.
He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and he refused to admit his pride when the prophet Jeremiah warned him directly from the Lord.
13 Raja Nebukadnezar telah memaksa Zedekia untuk bersumpah demi Allah bahwa ia akan setia kepada Nebukadnezar. Tetapi kemudian Zedekia memberontak terhadap Nebukadnezar. Zedekia berkeras kepala terhadap TUHAN, Allah Israel. Ia tidak mau meninggalkan dosa-dosanya dan tidak mau kembali kepada TUHAN.
He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear an oath of loyalty by God. Zedekiah was arrogant and hard-hearted, and refused to come back to the Lord, the God of Israel.
14 Selain itu, Rumah TUHAN yang telah dikhususkan oleh TUHAN sendiri bagi diri-Nya, dinajiskan oleh pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda, imam-imam, dan rakyat, karena mereka turut menyembah berhala dan mengikuti cara hidup yang berdosa dari bangsa-bangsa di sekitar mereka.
All the leaders of the priests and the people were also totally faithless and sinful, following all the disgusting practices of the heathen nations. They defiled the Lord's Temple that he had set apart as holy in Jerusalem.
15 TUHAN, Allah leluhur mereka, telah berulang-ulang mengirim utusan-utusan-Nya untuk memperingatkan umat-Nya, karena Ia sayang kepada mereka dan kepada rumah-Nya.
Again and again the Lord, the God of their fathers, warned his people through his prophets, because he wanted to show mercy to them and to his Temple.
16 Tetapi mereka mempermainkan utusan-utusan Allah itu, dan menertawakan nabi-nabi-Nya serta tidak menghiraukan kata-kata-Nya. Akhirnya TUHAN begitu marah kepada mereka sehingga tidak ada lagi jalan keluar bagi mereka untuk luput dari hukuman-Nya.
But they ridiculed God's messengers, they despised his warnings and mocked his prophets, until the Lord's anger against his people was provoked to such an extent it couldn't be stopped.
17 TUHAN menggerakkan hati raja Babel supaya menyerang mereka. Raja itu membunuh orang Yehuda yang muda-muda, termasuk mereka yang berada di dalam Rumah TUHAN. Ia tidak mengasihani seorang pun, tua atau muda, laki-laki atau perempuan, sakit atau sehat. Mereka semua diserahkan Allah kepada raja Babel.
So the Lord brought the king of Babylon to attack them. His army killed by the sword their best young men even in the sanctuary. The Babylonians did not spare young men or young women, the sick or the elderly. God handed them all over to Nebuchadnezzar.
18 Perkakas-perkakas Rumah TUHAN, dan barang-barangnya yang berharga, juga harta benda raja dan para pegawainya, semuanya dirampas oleh raja Babel itu lalu dibawa ke Babel.
He took back to Babylon all the articles, large and small, from God's Temple, and from the Temple treasury, and from the king and from his officials.
19 Ia meruntuhkan tembok kota Yerusalem, dan membakar kota itu, termasuk Rumah TUHAN dan semua istana bersama barang-barang berharga yang masih ada di dalam istana-istana itu.
Then the Babylonians burned down God's Temple and demolished Jerusalem's walls. They set fire to all the palaces and destroyed everything that had any value.
20 Rakyat yang luput diangkutnya ke Babel. Di sana mereka menjadi hambanya dan hamba keturunannya sampai pada masa kerajaan Persia berkuasa.
Nebuchadnezzar took into exile in Babylon those who had not been killed. They were slaves for himself and his sons, until the kingdom of Persia took over.
21 Demikianlah terjadi apa yang dikatakan TUHAN melalui Yeremia bahwa negeri itu akan tandus 70 tahun lamanya sebagai ganti tahun-tahun Sabat yang tidak diindahkan.
So to fulfill the Lord's prophecy given through Jeremiah, the land enjoyed its Sabbaths as rest all the time it was left desolate, keeping the Sabbath until seventy years were completed.
22 Pada tahun pertama pemerintahan Kores, raja Persia, TUHAN melaksanakan apa yang telah diucapkan-Nya melalui Nabi Yeremia. TUHAN menggerakkan hati Kores untuk mengeluarkan sebuah perintah yang dibacakan di seluruh kerajaannya. Bunyinya demikian:
In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, to fulfill the Lord's prophecy given through Jeremiah, the Lord encouraged Cyrus, king of Persia, to issue a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also to put it in writing, saying,
23 "Inilah perintah Kores, raja Persia! TUHAN, Allah penguasa di surga telah menjadikan aku raja atas seluruh dunia, dan menugaskan aku untuk membangun rumah bagi-Nya di Yerusalem di daerah Yehuda. Jadi, kamu semua yang menjadi umat Allah harus kembali ke sana! Semoga TUHAN Allahmu melindungi kamu."
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, who has given to me all the kingdoms of the earth, has given me the responsibility to build a Temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone among you who belongs to his people can go there. May the Lord your God be with you.’”

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