2 Raja-raja 16
1 Pada tahun ketujuh belas pemerintahan Raja Pekah anak Remalya atas Israel, Ahas anak Yotam menjadi raja Yehuda.
When Pekah had been ruling Israel for almost 17 years, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became the king of Judah.
2 Pada waktu itu ia berusia 20 tahun dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem 16 tahun lamanya. Ia tidak mengikuti teladan yang baik dari Raja Daud, leluhurnya, melainkan melakukan yang tidak menyenangkan hati TUHAN, Allahnya.
He was 20 years old when he became the king [of Judah]. He ruled from Jerusalem for 16 years. He did not do things that pleased Yahweh his God, good things like his ancestor King David had done.
3 Ia hidup seperti raja-raja Israel, bahkan mempersembahkan putranya sendiri sebagai kurban kepada dewa, menurut kebiasaan buruk orang-orang yang telah diusir TUHAN dari negeri Kanaan ketika orang Israel memasuki negeri itu.
Instead, he was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He even sacrificed his son as an offering to idols. That was worse than the disgusting things that the people who previously lived there had done, people whom Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis were advancing through the land.
4 Ahas mempersembahkan kurban dan membakar dupa di tempat-tempat penyembahan dewa di gunung-gunung dan di bawah pohon-pohon yang rindang.
Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense [to honor Yahweh] on the tops of many hills and under many [HYP] big trees, [instead of in Jerusalem as Yahweh had commanded].
5 Pada masa itu raja Edom menguasai kembali kota Elat dan mengusir orang-orang Yehuda yang tinggal di situ. Orang Edom kemudian datang dan menetap di kota itu sampai hari ini. Pada masa itu juga Rezin raja Siria dan Pekah raja Israel menyerang dan mengepung Yerusalem, tetapi tidak dapat mengalahkan Ahas.
While he was the king of Judah, King Rezin of Assyria and King Pekah of Israel [came with their armies] and attacked Jerusalem. They surrounded the city, but they could not conquer it.
At that time the [army of the] king of Edom expelled the people of Judah who were living in Elath [city]. Some of the people of Edom started to live there, and they are still living there.
7 Ahas mengirim utusan kepada Tiglat-Pileser raja Asyur dengan pesan ini, "Aku hambamu yang setia; karena itu, aku mohon, datanglah dan selamatkanlah aku dari raja Siria dan raja Israel yang sedang menyerang aku."
King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria, to tell this message to him: “I promise that I will completely do what you tell me to do, [as though] I [was] your son. Please come and rescue us from the armies of Syria and Israel who are attacking my country.”
8 Ahas juga mengambil emas dan perak dari Rumah TUHAN, serta harta benda istana, lalu mengirimnya sebagai hadiah kepada raja Asyur itu.
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was in the palace and in the temple and sent it to Assyria to be a present/gift for the king of Assyria.
9 Raja Tiglat-Pileser mengabulkan permohonan Ahas, lalu menyerbu dan merebut Damsyik. Penduduknya diangkutnya sebagai tawanan ke Kir, dan rajanya, yaitu Raja Rezin, dibunuhnya.
So Tiglath-Pileser did what Ahaz requested. His army marched to Damascus and captured it, and they took the people of Damascus as prisoners to live in the capital city of Assyria, and executed [King] Rezin.
10 Ketika Raja Ahas pergi ke Damsyik untuk menemui Raja Tiglat-Pileser, ia melihat mezbah di kota itu. Lalu ia mengirim kepada Imam Uria di Yerusalem contoh mezbah itu dengan ukurannya yang tepat secara terperinci.
When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-Pileser, he saw the altar that was there. So he sent to Uriah, the Supreme Priest [in Jerusalem], a drawing of the altar and a model that was exactly like the altar in Damascus.
11 Maka Uria mendirikan sebuah mezbah sesuai dengan contoh dan ukuran yang diterimanya itu, dan menyelesaikannya sebelum Ahas kembali.
So Uriah built an altar [in Jerusalem], following the drawing that King Ahaz had sent. Uriah finished the altar before Ahaz returned [to Jerusalem] from Damascus.
12 Setibanya dari Damsyik, Ahas melihat bahwa mezbah itu sudah selesai.
When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar. He went to it
13 Lalu di atas mezbah itu ia mempersembahkan kurban binatang serta kurban gandum. Ia juga menuang kurban anggur dan darah dari kurban perdamaian ke atas mezbah itu.
and burned animal sacrifices and a grain offering on it. He also poured a wine offering on it and threw on it the blood of the offerings to maintain fellowship with God.
14 Ahas melihat bahwa mezbah perunggu yang dikhususkan untuk TUHAN terletak antara Rumah TUHAN dan mezbahnya yang baru. Karena itu mezbah perunggu itu dipindahkannya dari depan Rumah TUHAN ke sebelah utara mezbahnya yang baru itu.
The old bronze altar which had been dedicated long ago to Yahweh was between the new altar and the temple, so Ahaz moved it to the north side of his new altar, [which was bigger than the old altar].
15 Setelah itu ia berkata kepada Uria, "Pakailah mezbahku yang besar ini untuk membakar kurban pagi dan kurban malam yang dipersembahkan raja dan rakyat, dan tuangkanlah di situ kurban anggur dari rakyat. Tuangkan juga ke atas mezbah itu darah semua binatang yang dipersembahkan. Dan mezbah perunggu yang lama itu biarlah aku yang memakainya untuk minta petunjuk dari roh-roh."
Then King Ahaz ordered Uriah: “Each morning put on this new altar the sacrifices that will be completely burned, and in the evening put on it the grain offering, along with my offering and the offerings that the people bring, ones that will be completely burned, and my grain offering and the people’s grain and wine offerings. Pour against the sides of the altar the blood of all the animals that are sacrificed. But the old bronze altar will be only for me to use to find out what Yahweh wants me to do.”
16 Uria melaksanakan perintah raja.
So Uriah did what the king commanded him to do.
17 Kemudian Ahas membongkar kereta-kereta perunggu yang dipakai di Rumah TUHAN, dan mencopoti tempayan-tempayan dari kereta-kereta itu. Bejana perunggu yang besar yang ada pada punggung dua belas sapi perunggu itu diambilnya juga dan diletakkannya di atas alas dari batu.
King Ahaz told his workers to take off the frames of the carts [that were outside the temple] and to take down the basins that were on them. They also took down the bronze tank from the backs of the bronze [statues of the] oxen and put it on a stone foundation.
18 Lalu untuk mengambil hati raja Asyur, Ahas membongkar balairung raja di Rumah TUHAN, dan menutup pintu masuk yang khusus untuk raja.
Then to please the king of Assyria, Ahaz had them remove from the temple the roof under which the people walked into the temple on the Sabbath Day, and closed up the private entrance into the temple for the kings of Judah.
19 Kisah lainnya mengenai Raja Ahas dicatat dalam buku Sejarah Raja-raja Yehuda.
[If you want to know about] the other things that Ahaz did, they are written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
20 Ahas meninggal dan dikubur di pekuburan raja-raja di Kota Daud. Hizkia anaknya menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
Ahaz died [EUP], and he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, where his ancestors had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.
