2 Raja-raja 24
1 Semasa pemerintahan Raja Yoyakim, Nebukadnezar raja Babel menyerang dan menaklukkan Yehuda. Tiga tahun lamanya Yoyakim tunduk kepada Nebukadnezar, tetapi kemudian ia memberontak.
In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
2 TUHAN mengirim gerombolan-gerombolan bersenjata dari bangsa Babel, Siria, Moab dan Amon untuk melawan Yoyakim dan membinasakan Yehuda, sesuai dengan apa yang telah dikatakan-Nya melalui para nabi hamba-hamba-Nya.
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
3 Memang hal itu harus terjadi, karena TUHAN sudah mengatakan bahwa bangsa Yehuda akan dibuang dari negeri yang diberikan TUHAN kepada mereka. Mereka dibuang karena segala dosa yang dilakukan oleh Raja Manasye;
Surely at the commandment of the LORD came [this] upon Judah, to remove [them] out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
4 terutama karena semua pembunuhan yang dilakukannya terhadap orang-orang yang tidak bersalah. TUHAN tidak mau mengampuni Manasye karena perbuatan-perbuatannya itu.
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
5 Seluruh daerah, dari Sungai Efrat sampai perbatasan Mesir sebelah utara yang termasuk wilayah pemerintahan raja Mesir, dikuasai oleh raja Babel. Karena itu raja Mesir tidak pernah lagi keluar dari negerinya untuk pergi berperang. Kisah lainnya mengenai Raja Yoyakim dicatat dalam buku Sejarah Raja-raja Yehuda. Setelah Yoyakim meninggal, putranya yang bernama Yoyakhin menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
8 Yoyakhin berumur 18 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem tiga bulan lamanya. Ibunya bernama Nehusta anak Elnatan, dari Yerusalem.
Jehoiachin [was] eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother’s name [was] Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
9 Seperti ayahnya, Yoyakhin pun berdosa kepada TUHAN.
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
10 Dalam masa pemerintahan Yoyakhin, pasukan Babel yang dipimpin oleh perwira-perwira Nebukadnezar, maju menyerang Yerusalem, dan mengepung kota itu.
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
11 Sementara kota itu dikepung, Nebukadnezar sendiri datang ke Yerusalem,
And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
12 lalu Raja Yoyakhin bersama ibunya, anak-anaknya, perwira-perwiranya serta pegawai-pegawai istananya menyerah kepada Nebukadnezar. Lalu Yoyakhin ditawan. Hal itu terjadi pada tahun kedelapan pemerintahan Nebukadnezar.
And Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
13 Semua perkakas emas yang dibuat oleh Raja Salomo untuk Rumah TUHAN, dirusak oleh Nebukadnezar. Lalu semua benda berharga yang terdapat di Rumah TUHAN itu dan di istana diangkutnya ke Babel. Semua itu terjadi sesuai dengan apa yang telah dikatakan TUHAN sebelumnya.
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.
14 Raja Yoyakhin, ibunya, istri-istrinya, pegawai-pegawainya, dan pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda--seluruhnya 7.000 orang terkemuka--ditawan dan diangkut ke Babel. Juga para pekerja ahli dan pandai besi sebanyak 1.000 orang, semuanya orang kuat-kuat dan berani-berani untuk berperang. Orang-orang keturunan raja, dan orang-orang terkemuka pun diangkut juga ke pembuangan--semuanya ada 10.000 orang. Hampir seluruh penduduk Yerusalem diangkut; yang tertinggal hanyalah rakyat yang paling miskin.
And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, [even] ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, [those] carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.
And all the men of might, [even] seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all [that were] strong [and] apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.
17 Kemudian Nebukadnezar mengangkat Matanya, paman Yoyakhin, menjadi raja Yehuda, dan mengubah namanya menjadi Zedekia.
And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.
18 Zedekia berumur 21 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda. Ia memerintah di Yerusalem 11 tahun lamanya. Ibunya bernama Hamutal, anak Yeremia dari kota Libna.
Zedekiah [was] twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name [was] Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
19 Seperti Raja Yoyakim, Raja Zedekia juga berdosa kepada TUHAN.
And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
20 TUHAN marah sekali kepada penduduk Yerusalem dan orang Yehuda sehingga Ia tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka.
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
