Luo Chronicle 15

1 Ngun lun God tuku nu facl Azariah wen natul Oded,

Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.

2 ac el som in osun nu sel Tokosra Asa. El pangla nu yorol ac fahk, “Tokosra Asa, ac kowos mwet Judah ac mwet Benjamin nukewa, lohng ma nga ac fahk uh! LEUM GOD El wi kowos ke lusen pacl kowos welul. Kowos fin sokol, El ac lela kowos in konalak. A kowos fin forla lukel, El ac fah ngetla liki kowos.

And he went out to meet Asa, and he said to him: “Listen to me, Asa and all of Judah and Benjamin. The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you abandon him, he will abandon you.

3 In pacl na loeloes se, mwet Israel elos tuh moul sayen God pwaye, ac wangin mwet tol in lotelos, ac wangin pac ma sap yorolos.

Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law.

4 Tusruktu ke pacl oasr mwe lokoalok nu selos, na elos forla nu sin LEUM GOD lun Israel. Elos sokol ac elos konalak.

And when, in their anguish, they will have returned to the Lord, the God of Israel, and will have sought him, they shall find him.

5 In len ingo wangin mwet ku in forot forma ac wangin ma sikyak nu selos, mweyen oasr mwe ongoiya ac lokoalok sikyak in acn nukewa.

In that time, there will be no peace for those who depart and those who enter. Instead, there will be terror on every side, among all the inhabitants of the lands.

6 Kais sie mutunfacl akkeokye mutunfacl saya, ac kais sie siti akkeokye siti saya, mweyen God El sang mwe ongoiya ac mwe asor nu faclos.

For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.

7 Tusruktu kowos in ku na ac tia fuhleak. Ac fah oasr lacnen orekma lowos.”

But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”

8 Ke Asa el lohng kas in palu ma Azariah wen natul Oded el fahk inge, kui nunkal. Na el kunausla ma sruloala nukewa in acn Judah ac Benjamin, oayapa ma sruloala nukewa in siti ma el sruokya infulan eol Ephraim. El oayapa aksasuyela loang lun LEUM GOD ma oan in kalkal in Tempul.

And when Asa had heard these particular words, and the prophecy of the prophet Azariah, the son of Oded, he was strengthened, and he took away the idols from the entire land of Judah, and from Benjamin, and from the cities that he had seized of mount Ephraim, and he dedicated the altar of the Lord, which was before the portico of the Lord.

9 Pukanten mwet welulang Asa su tuku Ephraim, Manasseh, ac Simeon me ac inge elos muta in tokosrai lal, mweyen elos liye lah LEUM GOD El welul. Asa el pangoneni mwet inge nukewa, wi mwet Judah ac mwet Benjamin.

And he gathered together all of Judah and Benjamin, and with them the new arrivals from Ephraim and Manasseh and Simeon. For many had fled to him from Israel, seeing that the Lord his God was with him.

10 Elos tukeni nu Jerusalem in malem se aktolu in yac aksingoul limekosr ma Asa el tokosra.

And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,

11 In len sac elos orek kisa nu sin LEUM GOD ke ma wap ma elos use ke elos foloko liki mweun. Oasr cow itfoko ac tausin itkosr ke sheep.

they immolated to the Lord on that day, from the best of the spoils and from the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand rams.

12 Elos orala sie wulela ac elos insesela kac mu elos ac alu na nu sin LEUM GOD lun papa tumalos ke insialos ac ngunalos kewa.

And he entered, according to custom, in order to confirm the covenant, so that they would seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with their whole heart and with their whole soul.

13 Kutena mwet sin mwet fusr ku mwet matu, mukul ku mutan, su tia alu nu sel, ac fah anwuki.

“But if anyone,” he said, “will not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, let him die, from the least even to the greatest, from man even to woman.”

14 Elos orala fulahk ku lalos ke pusra lulap Inen LEUM GOD lah elos ac karinganang na wulela se inge. Na elos sasa ac ukya mwe ukuk.

And they swore to the Lord, with a great voice, in jubilation, and with the blare of trumpets, and with the sound of horns,

15 Mwet Judah nukewa elos engan ke sripen elos tuh orala wulela se inge ke insialos kewa. Elos insewowo in alu nu sin LEUM GOD, ac El insewowo selos ac sang tuh in oasr misla inmasrlolos ac mwet nukewa su muta raunelosla.

all who were in Judah swore with a curse. For with all their heart they swore, and with all their will they sought and found him. And the Lord granted rest on all sides to them.

16 Tokosra Asa el eisla wal lun kasra lukel Maacah, nina matu kial, mweyen el tuh orala sie ma sruloala fohkfok ke god mutan se pangpang Asherah. Asa el pakiya ma sruloala sac ac pakpukiya ac furreak Infahlfal Kidron.

Then too, Maacah, the mother of king Asa, he deposed from the august authority, because she had made an idol of Priapus within a sacred grove. And he entirely crushed it, breaking it into pieces, and he burned it at the torrent Kidron.

17 Asa el ne tia kunausla nufon nien alu lun mwet pegan in facl sel, tusruktu el oaru na nu sin LEUM GOD in moul lal nufon.

But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.

18 Ma nukewa ma Abijah, papa tumal, el tuh kisakunang nu sin God, Asa el likiya nufon in Tempul, weang pac ma orek ke gold ac silver ma el sifacna kisakunang.

And whatever his father or he himself had vowed, he brought into the house of the Lord: silver and gold, and vessels for various uses.

19 Wanginla mweun nwe ke sun yac aktolngoul limekosr in pacl el tokosra.

Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.