२ राजाहरू 23
1 त्यसैले राजाले सन्देशवाहकहरू पठाए जसले यहूदा र यरूशलेमका सबै धर्म-गुरुलाई तिनीकहाँ भेला गराए ।
Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
2 तब राजा परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा गए, अनि यहूदाका सबै मानिस र यरूशलेमका सबै बासिन्दा, पुजारीहरू, अगमवक्ताहरू र सानादेखि ठुलासम्म सबै मानिस पनि तिनीसँगै गए । तब तिनले परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा भेट्टाइएका करारको पुस्तकका सबै वचन तिनीहरूले सुन्ने गरी पढे ।
They went together to the temple, along with the priests and the prophets, and many other [HYP] people, from the most important people to the least important people. And while they listened, the king read to them all of the laws that Moses had written. He read from the scroll that had been found in the temple.
3 राजा खम्बानेर खडा थिए अनि आफ्नो सारा ह्रदय र सारा प्राणले परमप्रभुको पछि लाग्न र उहाँका आज्ञाहरू, उहाँका निर्देशनहरू, उहाँका विधिहरू पालन गर्न र यस पुस्तकमा लेखिएका यस करारका वचनहरू पालन गर्न परमप्रभुको सामु करार बाँधे । यसरी सबै मानिसले यो करार पालन गर्ने सहमति जनाए ।
Then the king stood next to the pillar [where the kings stood when they made important announcements], and while Yahweh was listening, he repeated his promise to sincerely obey [DOU] all of Yahweh’s commands and regulations [DOU]. He also promised to (fulfill the conditions of/do what was written in) the agreement he made with Yahweh. And all the people also promised to obey the agreement.
4 तब प्रधान पुजारी हिल्कियाह, तिनको अधिनका पुजारीहरू र द्वारपालहरूलाई बाल देवता र अश्शेरा देवी अनि आकाशका सबै ताराहरूका निम्ति बनाइएका भाँडाहरू परमप्रभुको मन्दिरबाट बाहिर ल्याउन हुकुम दिए । तिनले किद्रोन उपत्यकामा भएको मैदानहरूमा तिनलाई जलाए र तिनका खरानीलाई बेथेलमा लगे ।
Then the king commanded Hilkiah the Supreme Priest and all the other priests who assisted him and the men who guarded the entrance to the temple to bring out from the temple all the items that people had been using to worship Baal, the goddess Asherah, and the stars. [After they carried them out, ] they burned all those things outside the city near the Kidron Valley. Then they took all the ashes to Bethel, [because that city was already considered to be desecrated/unholy].
5 यहूदाका राजाहरूले यहूदाका सहरहरूका उच्च ठाउँहरू र यरूशलेम वरिपरिका ठाउँहरूमा धूप बाल्नलाई चुनेका मूर्तिपूजक पुजारीहरूलाई तिनले हटाइदिए । तिनीहरूले बाल देवता, सूर्य, चन्द्रमा, ग्रहहरू र आकाशका सबै ताराहरूलाई धूप बाल्थे ।
There were many pagan priests that the previous kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the altars on the tops of hills in Judah. They had been offering sacrifices to Baal, to the sun, the moon, the planets, and the stars. The king stopped them from doing those things.
6 परमप्रभुको मन्दिरबाट अश्शेरा देवीको खम्बालाई तिनले यरूशलेम बाहिर किद्रोन उपत्यकामा बाहिर लगे र त्यसलाई त्यहाँ जलाए । तिनले त्यसलाई पिटेर धूलो र त्यो धूलोलाई साधारण मानिसहरूका चिहानहरूमा फालिदिए ।
He [commanded that] the statue of the goddess Asherah [be] taken out of the temple. Then they took it outside Jerusalem, down to the Kidron Brook, and burned it. Then they pounded the ashes to powder and scattered that over the graves in the public cemetery.
7 तिनले परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा भएका झुटो धर्मका वेश्याहरूका कोठाहरू सफा गरे, जहाँ स्त्रीहरूले अश्शेरा देवीका निम्ति वस्त्रहरू बुन्ने गर्थे ।
He also destroyed the rooms in the temple where the temple male prostitutes lived. That was where women wove robes that were used to worship the goddess Asherah.
8 योशियाहले यहूदाका सहरहरूबाट सबै पुजारीलाई ल्याए, र गेबादेखि बेर्शेबासम्म पुजारीहरूले धूप बाल्ने उच्चा ठाउँहरूलाई तिनले अपवित्र तुल्याइदिए । तिनले सहरको मूल ढोकाको देब्रेपट्टि यहोशूको ढोका (सहरका राज्यपा) को प्रवेशद्वारमा भएका ढोकाहरूमा बनाइएका उच्च ठाउँहरूलाई नष्ट पारिदिए ।
Josiah also brought [to Jerusalem] all the priests who were offering sacrifices in the other cities in Judah. He also desecrated the places on the tops of hills where the priests had burned incense [to honor idols], from Geba [in the north] to Beersheba [in the south]. Those priests were not allowed to offer sacrifices in the temple, but they [were allowed to] eat the unleavened bread that the priests [who worked in the temple] ate. He also [commanded that] the altars that were dedicated to the goat demons near the gate built by Joshua, the mayor of Jerusalem, [be] destroyed. Those altars were at the left of the main gate into the city.
9 ती उच्च ठाउँहरूका पुजारीहरूलाई यरूशलेममा परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा सेवा गर्न नदिए तापनि तिनीहरूले आफ्ना दाजुभाइका बिचमा अखमिरी रोटी खाए ।
10 मोलोखलाई बलिको रूपमा कसैले आफ्ना छोरा वा छोरी आगोमा हिंड्न नलगाओस् भनेर योशियाहले बेन-हिन्नोमको बेँसीमा अवस्थित तोपेतलाई अपवित्र तुल्याए ।
Josiah also desecrated the place named Topheth, in the Hinnom Valley, in order that no one could offer his son or daughter there to be completely burned for a sacrifice to [the god] Molech.
11 यहूदाका राजाहरूले सूर्यको सम्मानमा बनाएका घोडाहरू तिनले हटाए । ती नातान-मेलेक नाउँका अधिकारीको कोठा नजिक परमप्रभुको मन्दिरको प्रवेशद्वारको क्षेत्रमा राखिएका थिए । योशियाहले सूर्यको सम्मानमा बनाइएका रथहरूलाई जलाए ।
He also removed the horses that the [previous] kings of Judah had dedicated to worshiping the sun, and he burned the chariots that were used in that worship. Those horses and chariots were kept in the courtyard outside the temple, near the entrance to the temple, and near the room where [one of Josiah’s] officials, whose name was Nathan-Melech, lived.
12 आहाजको दरवारको कौसीमा यहूदाका राजाहरूले राखेका वेदीहरू र मनश्शेले परमप्रभुको मन्दिरका दुईवटा चोकमा बनाएका वेदीहरू राजा योशियाहले नष्ट पारे । योशियाहले तिनलाई टुक्राटुक्रा पारे र तिनलाई किद्रोनको बेँसीमा फाले ।
Josiah also commanded his servants to tear down the altars that the previous kings of Judah had built on the roof of the palace, above the room where King Ahaz had stayed. They also tore down the altars that had been built by King Manasseh in the two courtyards outside the temple. He commanded that they be smashed to pieces and thrown down into the Kidron Valley.
13 इस्राएलका राजा सोलोमनले यरूशलेमको पूर्वपट्टि, भ्रष्टताको पर्वतको दक्षिणपट्टि बनाएका सीदोनीहरूका देवी अश्तोरेतको घिनलाग्दो मूर्ति, मोआबीहरूको देवता कमोशको घिनलाग्दो मूर्ति र अम्मोनीहरूको देवता मोलोखको घिनलाग्दो मूर्तिलाई राजाले नष्ट पारिदिए ।
He also commanded that the altars that King Solomon had built east of Jerusalem, south of Olive Tree Hill, be desecrated. Solomon had built them for the worship of the disgusting idols—the [statue of the goddess] Astarte [worshiped by the people in] Sidon [city], Chemosh the god of the Moab people-group, and Molech the god of the Ammon people-group.
14 तिनले ढुङ्गाका खम्बाहरूलाई टुक्राटुक्रा पारे, र अश्शेरा देवीका खम्बाहरूलाई काटे र ती ठाउँ मानिसका हड्डीहरूले भरे ।
They also broke into pieces the stone pillars that the Israeli people worshiped, and cut down the [pillars that honored the goddess] Asherah, and they scattered the ground there with human bones [to desecrate it].
15 बेथेलमा भएको वेदी र नबातका छोरा यारोबाम (इस्राएललाई पाप गर्न लगाउने) ले बनाएका उच्च ठाउँहरूलाई पनि योशियाहले पूर्ण रूपमा नाश पारे । तिनले त्यो वेदी र उच्च ठाउँहरूलाई जलाए र धूलोपिठो पारे । तिनले अश्शेरा देवीको खम्बालाई पनि जलाए ।
Furthermore, he commanded them to tear down the place of worship at Bethel which had been built by King Jeroboam, the king who persuaded the people of Israel to sin. They tore down the altar. Then they broke its stones into pieces and pounded them to become powder. They also burned the statue [of the goddess] Asherah.
16 योशियाहले त्यस क्षेत्रमा नजर लगाए र पहाडी क्षेत्रमा तिनले चिहानहरू देखे । ती चिहानहरूबाट हड्डीहरू ल्याउन तिनले मानिसहरू पठाए । त्यसपछि तिनले ती हड्डीहरूलाई वेदीमाथि राखेर जलाए जसले त्यो अपवित्र पार्यो । परमेश्वरका मानिसले बोलेका परमप्रभुको वचनअनुसार यसो हुन आएको थियो, ती मानिसले यी कुराहरूका बारेमा पहिले नै बोलेका थिए ।
Then Josiah looked around and saw some tombs there on the hill. He commanded his men to take the bones out of those tombs and burn them on the altar. By doing that, he desecrated the altar. That was what a prophet had predicted many years before when Jeroboam was standing close to that altar at a festival. Then Josiah looked up and saw the tomb of the prophet who had predicted that.
17 तब तिनले सोधे, “मैले देखेको त्यो स्मारकचाहिं केको हो?” सहरका मानिसहरूले तिनलाई जवाफ दिए, “त्यो यहूदाबाट आएका परमेश्वरका मानिसको चिहान हो जसले तपाईंले भर्खरै बेथेलको वेदीको विरुद्धमा गर्नुभएको कुराको बारेमा बोलेका थिए ।”
Josiah asked, “Whose tomb is that?” The people of Bethel replied, “It is the tomb of the prophet who came from Judah and predicted that these things that you have just now done to this altar would happen.”
18 त्यसैले योशियाहले भने, “त्यसलाई छोड । तिनका हड्डीहरूलाई कसैले पनि नसारोस् । त्यसैले सामरियाबाट आएका अगमवक्ताका हड्डीहरूसँगै तिनका हड्डीहरूलाई तिनीहरूले त्यहाँ छाडे ।
Josiah replied, “Allow his tomb to remain as it is. Do not remove the prophet’s bones from the tomb.” So the people did not remove those bones, or the bones of the other prophet, the one who had come from Samaria.
19 त्यसपछि सामरियाका सहरहरूमा भएका उच्च ठाउँहरू जसलाई इस्राएलका राजाहरूले बनाएका र परमप्रभुलाई क्रुद्ध तुल्याएका थिए, ती सबैलाई योशियाहले हटाए । तिनले बेथेलमा जे गरेका थिए, तिनलाई पनि ठिक त्यही गरे ।
In every city in Israel, at Josiah’s command, they tore down the shrines that had been built by the previous kings of Israel, which had caused Yahweh to become very angry. He did to all those shrines/altars the same thing that he had done to the altars at Bethel.
20 उच्च ठाउँहरूका सबै पुजारीलाई तिनले वेदीहरूमा मारे, र तिनले मानिसका हड्डीहरू तिनमा जलाए । तब तिनी यरूशलेममा फर्के ।
He ordered that all the priests who offered sacrifices on the altars on the tops of hills must be killed on those altars. Then he burned human bones on every one of those altars [to desecrate them]. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
21 तब राजाले सबै मानिसलाई यसो भनरे आज्ञा दिए, “करारको पुस्तकमा लेखिएबमोजिम परमप्रभु आफ्ना परमेश्वरको निम्ति निस्तार-चाड मनाओ ।”
Then the king commanded all the people to celebrate the Passover Festival to honor Yahweh their God, which was written in the law of Moses that they should do [every year].
22 इस्राएलमा शासन गर्ने न्यायकर्ताहरूका समयदेखि नै यसरी निस्तार-चाडको उत्सव मनाउने काम कहिलै थिएन, न त इस्राएल र यहूदाका राजाहरूको समयमा भएको थियो ।
During all the years that leaders ruled Israel and during all the years that kings had ruled Israel and Judah, they had not celebrated that festival.
23 तर राजा योशियाहको अठारौँ वर्षमा यरूशलेममा परमप्रभुको निस्तार-चाड मनाइयो ।
But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
24 मृतहरू र भुत आत्माहरूसित बात गर्नेहरूलाई पनि योशियाहले निश्कासन गरे । तिनले यहूदा र यरूशलेममा देखिने सबै प्रेतपुजा, मूर्तिहरू र घिनलाग्दा थोकहरूलाई पनि हटाए । यसरी हिल्कियाह पुजारीले परमप्रभुको मन्दिरमा भेट्टाएका व्यवस्थाका पुस्तकमा लिखिएका वचनहरू पालन गर्ने काम भयो ।
Furthermore, Josiah got rid of all the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah who practiced sorcery and those who requested the spirits of dead people [to tell them what they should do]. He also removed from Jerusalem and from the other places in Judah all the household idols and all the other idols and abominable things. He did those things in order to obey what had been written in the scroll that Hilkiah had found in the temple.
25 आफ्नो सारा ह्रदय, सारा प्राण, र सारा शक्तिले परमप्रभुतर्फ फर्केर सबै मोशाको व्यवस्थालाई पालन गर्ने योशियाहभन्दा पहिले त्यहाँ कुनै अर्को राजा थिएन । न त योशियाहले झैं तिनी पछि आएका अरू कुनै राजाले नै गर्यो ।
Josiah was totally devoted to Yahweh. There had never been [in Judah or Israel] a king like him. He obeyed all the laws of Moses. And there has never since then been a king like Josiah.
26 तापनि परमप्रभु आफ्नो दन्किरहेको क्रोधको आगोबाट फकर्नुभएन किनकि मनश्शेले गरेका सबै कामको कारणले यहूदाको विरुद्धमा उहाँलाई भयङ्कर रिस उठेको थियो ।
But Yahweh had become extremely angry with the people of Judah because of all the things that [King] Manasseh had done to infuriate him, and he continued to be very angry.
27 त्यसैले परमप्रभुले भन्नुभयो, “जसरी मैले इस्राएललाई हटाएको छु त्यसरी नै मैले चुनेको यो यरूशलेम सहर र 'मेरो नाउँ त्यहाँ हुनेछ' भनी मैले भनेको त्यो मेरो मन्दिर समेत म यहूदालाई पनि मेरो दृष्टिबाट हटाउनेछु ।”
He said, “I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel. I will banish the people of Judah, with the result that they will never enter my presence again. And I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose [to belong to me], and I will abandon the temple, the place where I said that I [MTY] should be worshiped.”
28 योशियाह सम्बन्धमा भएका अरू कुराहरू, तिनले गरेका हरेक काम, के ती यहूदाका राजाहरूको इतिहासको पुस्तकमा लेखिएका छैनन् र?
[If you want to know more about] [RHQ] all the other things that Josiah did, they are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
29 ती दिनमा मिश्रदेशका राजा फारो नेकोले आफ्ना सेना लिएर उत्तरमा यूफ्रेटिस नदी पारि अश्शूरका राजालाई युद्धमा मदत गर्न गए । राजा योशियाह नेकोलाई मगिद्दोमा रोक्ने उदेश्यले गए तर त्यहाँ युद्धमा तिनी मारिए ।
While Josiah was the king of Judah, King Neco of Egypt led his army north to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the army of Egypt at Megiddo [city], but Josiah was killed in a battle there.
30 योशियाहका सेवकहरूले तिनको लाशलाई रथमा राखेर मगिद्दोबाट यरूशलेममा ल्याए, र तिनको आफ्नै चिहानमा तिनलाई गाडे । तब देशका मानिसहरूले योशियाहका छोरा यहोआहाजलाई लिई तिनलाई अभिषेक गरे, र तिनका पिताको ठाउँमा तिनलाई राजा बनाए ।
His officials placed his corpse in a chariot and took it back to Jerusalem, where it was buried in his own tomb, a tomb where the other previous kings had not been buried. Then the people of Judah poured [olive] oil on [the head of] Josiah’s son Joahaz, to appoint him to be the new king.
31 यहोआहाजले राज्य गर्न सुरु गर्दा तिनी तेइस वर्षका थिए, र तिनले यरूशलेममा तिन महिना राज्य गरे । तिनकी आमाको नाउँ हमुतल थियो । उनी लिब्नाकी यर्मियाकी छोरी थिइन् ।
Joahaz was 23 years old when he became the king [of Judah], but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months. His mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah [city].
32 यहोआहाजले हरेक कुरामा आफ्ना पुर्खाहरूले गरेझैँ परमप्रभुको दृष्टिमा जे खराब थियो, त्यही गरे ।
Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
33 तिनले यरूशलेममा राज्य नगरून् भनेर फारो नेकोले तिनलाई हमात देशको रिब्लामा साङ्लाले बाँधेर राखे । तब नेकोले यहूदालाई एक सय तोडा चाँदी र एक तोडा सुन कर तिर्न लगाए ।
King Neco’s [army came from Egypt and captured him and] tied him up with chains and took him as a prisoner to Riblah [town] in Hamath [district], to prevent him from continuing to rule in Jerusalem. Neco forced the people of Judah to pay to him (7,500 pounds/3,400 kg.) of silver and (75 pounds/34 kg.) of gold.
34 फारो नेकोले योशियाहका छोरा एल्याकीमलाई तिनका पिताको ठाउँमा राजा बनाए, र तिनको नाउँ बद्ली यहोयाकीम राखे । तर तिनले यहोआहाजलाई चाहिँ मिश्रदेशमा लगे, जहाँ तिनको मृत्यु भयो ।
King Neco appointed another son of Josiah, Eliakim, to be the new king, and he changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. Then he took Joahaz to Egypt, and later Joahaz died there in Egypt.
35 यहोयाकीमले फारोलाई चाँदी र सुन कर तिरे । फारोको माग पुरा गर्न यहोयाकीमले देशमा कर लगाए, र देशका प्रत्येक मानिसले आफ्नो क्षमताअनुसार तिनलाई करको रूपमा चाँदी र सुन जबरदस्ती तिर्नुपर्ने भयो ।
King Jehoiakim collected a tax from the people [of Judah]. He collected more from the rich people and less from the poor people. He collected silver and gold from them, in order to pay to the king of Egypt what he commanded them to give.
36 यहोयाकीमले राज्य सुरु गर्दा तिनी पच्चिस वर्षका थिए, र तिनले यरूशलेममा एघार वर्ष राज्य गरे । तिनकी आमाको नाउँ जबीदा थियो । उनी रूमाकी पदायाहकी छोरी थिइन् ।
Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah [town].
37 आफ्ना पिता-पुर्खाहरूले गरेझैँ यहोयाकीमले परमप्रभुको दृष्टिमा जे खराब थियो, त्यही गरे ।
He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
