2 Cronache 31
1 Quando tutte queste cose furon compiute, tutti gl’Israeliti che si trovavano quivi partirono per le città di Giuda, e frantumarono le statue, abbatterono gl’idoli d’Astarte, demolirono gli alti luoghi e gli altari in tutto Giuda e Beniamino, e in Efraim e in Manasse, in guisa che nulla più ne rimase. Poi tutti i figliuoli d’Israele se ne tornarono nelle loro città, ciascuno nel proprio possesso.
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 Ezechia ristabilì le classi de’ sacerdoti e de’ Leviti nelle loro funzioni, ognuno secondo il genere del suo servizio, sacerdoti e Leviti, per gli olocausti e i sacrifizi di azioni di grazie, per il servizio, per la lode e per il canto, entro le porte del campo dell’Eterno.
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 Stabilì pure la parte che il re preleverebbe dai suoi beni per gli olocausti, per gli olocausti del mattino e della sera, per gli olocausti dei sabati, dei noviluni e delle feste, come sta scritto nella legge dell’Eterno;
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 e ordinò al popolo, agli abitanti di Gerusalemme, di dare ai sacerdoti e ai Leviti la loro parte, affinché potessero darsi all’adempimento della legge dell’Eterno.
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 Non appena quest’ordine fu pubblicato, i figliuoli d’Israele dettero in gran quantità le primizie del grano, del vino, dell’olio, del miele, e di tutti i prodotti dei campi; e portarono la decima d’ogni cosa, in abbondanza.
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 I figliuoli d’Israele e di Giuda che abitavano nelle città di Giuda menarono anch’essi la decima dei buoi e delle pecore, e la decima delle cose sante che erano consacrate all’Eterno, al loro Dio, e delle quali si fecero tanti mucchi.
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 Cominciarono a fare que’ mucchi il terzo mese, e finirono il settimo mese.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 Ezechia e i capi vennero a vedere que’ mucchi, e benedissero l’Eterno e il suo popolo d’Israele.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Ed Ezechia interrogò i sacerdoti e i Leviti, relativamente a que’ mucchi;
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 e il sommo sacerdote Azaria, della casa di Tsadok, gli rispose: “Da che s’è cominciato a portar le offerte nella casa dell’Eterno, noi abbiam mangiato, ci siamo saziati, e v’è rimasta roba in abbondanza, perché l’Eterno ha benedetto il suo popolo; ed ecco qui la gran quantità ch’è rimasta”.
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 Allora Ezechia ordinò che si preparassero delle stanze nella casa dell’Eterno; e furon preparate.
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 E vi riposero fedelmente le offerte, la decima e le cose consacrate; Conania, il Levita, n’ebbe la sovrintendenza, e Scimei, suo fratello, veniva in secondo luogo.
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 Jehiel, Ahazia, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakia, Mahath e Benaia erano impiegati sotto la direzione di Conania e del suo fratello Scimei, per ordine del re Ezechia e d’Azaria, capo della casa di Dio.
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 Il Levita Kore, figliuolo di Imna, guardiano della porta orientale, era preposto ai doni volontari fatti a Dio per distribuire le offerte fatte all’Eterno e le cose santissime.
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 Sotto di lui stavano Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Scemaia, Amaria, Scecania, nelle città dei sacerdoti, come uomini di fiducia, per fare le distribuzioni ai loro fratelli grandi e piccoli, secondo le loro classi,
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 eccettuati i maschi ch’erano registrati nelle loro genealogie dall’età di tre anni in su, cioè tutti quelli che entravano giornalmente nella casa dell’Eterno per fare il loro servizio secondo le loro funzioni e secondo le loro classi.
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 (La registrazione dei sacerdoti si faceva secondo le loro case patriarcali, e quella dei Leviti dall’età di vent’anni in su, secondo le loro funzioni e secondo le loro classi.)
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 Dovean fare le distribuzioni a quelli di tutta la raunanza ch’eran registrati con tutti i loro bambini, con le loro mogli, coi loro figliuoli e con le loro figliuole; poiché nel loro ufficio di fiducia amministravano i doni sacri.
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 E per i sacerdoti, figliuoli d’Aaronne, che dimoravano in campagna, nei contadi delle loro città, v’erano in ogni città degli uomini designati per nome per distribuire le porzioni a tutti i maschi di tra i sacerdoti, e a tutti i Leviti registrati nelle genealogie.
[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 Ezechia fece così per tutto Giuda; fece ciò ch’è buono, retto e vero dinanzi all’Eterno, al suo Dio.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 In tutto quello che prese a fare per il servizio della casa di Dio, per la legge e per i comandamenti, cercando il suo Dio, mise tutto il cuore nell’opera sua, e prosperò.
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.
