2 Krønikebok 31
1 Då dei no alt dette var slutt, drog alle dei israelitarne som var til stades ut til byarne i Juda og braut sund minnesteinarne, hogg ned Astarte-bilæti og reiv ned offerhaugarne og altari i heile Juda og Benjamin, og i Efraim og Manasse, til dei reint hadde gjort ende på deim. Og so snudde alle Israels-sønerne heim att, kvar til sin eigedom i byarne sine.
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 So skipa Hizkia preste- og levitskifti, etter som dei høyrde til i det eine eller det andre skiftet, so at kvar og ein av prestarne og levitarne fekk si tenesta med brennofferi og takkoffer, å gjera tenesta med pris og lov i portarne til Herrens læger.
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 Det som kongen gav av eiga si, vart bruka til å greida brennofferi, morgon- og kvelds-brennofferi og brennofferi på kviledagarne, nymånedagarne og høgtiderne, soleis som skrive stend i Herrens lov.
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 Og han baud deim av folket som budde i Jerusalem at dei skulde gjeva det som prestarne og levitarne skulde hava, so dei kunde halda fast ved Herrens lov.
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 So snart dette vart kjent, kom Israels-sønerne med rikleg mengd av fyrstegrøda av korn, druvesaft, olje og honning og alt det andre avgrødet på marki, og sameleis tiend av alt i rikeleg mengd.
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 Og dei israelitarne og Juda-mennerne som budde i Juda-byarne, kom og med tiend utav storfe og småfe, og dei kom med tiend av dei heilage gåvorne som var vigde til Herren, deira Gud, og lagde deim haug ved haug.
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 I den tridje månaden tok dei til å hauga i hop, og i den sjuande månaden var dei ferdige med det.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 Hizkia og hovdingarne kom då og såg på haugarne, og dei prisa Herren og Israel, folket hans.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Då so Hizkia spurde prestarne og levitarne um haugarne,
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 svara øvstepresten Azarja av Sadoks hus honom: «Sidan dei tok til å føra offergåva til Herrens hus, hev me ete oss mette og leivt mykje att, for Herren hev velsigna folket sitt, so me hev fenge leivt all denne rikdomen.»
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 Hizkia gav då det bodet at dei skulde laga til buder i Herrens hus; og då dei hadde laga slike,
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 førde dei inn der avgrødet, tiendi og heilaggåvorne, alt på tru og æra. Tilsynet med dette vart gjeve til leviten Konanja og næmast under honom Sime’i, bror hans.
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 Og Jehiel, Azazja, Nahat, Asael, Jerimot, Jozabad, Eliel, Jismakja, Mahat og Benaja var tilsynsmenner jamsides med Konanja og Sime’i, bror hans, etter påbodet kong Hizkia og Azazja, den øvste i Guds hus.
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 Leviten Kore Jimnason, som var dørvaktar på øystre sida, hadde tilsyn med dei friviljuge gåvorne til Gud, og skulde skifta ut Herrens offergåvor og dei høgheilage gåvorne.
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 Under honmom vart sett Eden, Minjamin, Jesua, Semaja, Amarja og Sekanja; dei skulde vera i prestebyarne og skifta ut på tru og æra til brørne sine, både til store og små, etter dei skifti dei høyrde til,
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 Her var frårekna dei av mannkyn som var ifrå tri år og uppetter, og som kom til Herrens hus etter som torvi var frå dag til dag og gjorde arbeidet sitt etter som tenesta deira var etter dei skifti dei høyrde til.
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 Prestarne vart upptekne i lista etter ættgreinene sine, levitarne ifrå tjugeårsalderen og uppetter etter tenestskyldnaden sin, etter dei skifti dei høyrde til.
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 Det vart gjort soleis at dei vart upptekne med alle småborni sine, konorne, sønerne og døtterne sine, so mange dei var; for på tru og æra skulde dei styra med dei heilage tingi.
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 For bymarkarne åt Arons-sønerne, prestarne, var det nokre namngjevne menner i kvar by som skifte til kvar karmann millom prestarne og deim utav levitarne som var upptekne i listorne, det som dei hadde rett til.
[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 Soleis gjorde Hizkia i heile Juda, og han gjorde det som godt og rett og sant var for Herren, sin Guds åsyn.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 Alle dei verki som han tok seg fyre i tenesta for Guds hus, i lovi og i bodet med det fyremål å søkja sin Gud, alle dei gjorde han av heile sitt hjarta, og han hadde lukka med seg.
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.
