2 Crônicas 15
1 Então veio o espírito de Deus sobre Azarias, filho d'Obed.
Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.
2 E saiu ao encontro d'Asa, e disse-lhe: Ouvi-me, Asa, e todo o Judá e Benjamin: O Senhor está convosco, enquanto vós estais com ele, e, se o buscardes, o achareis; porém, se o deixardes, vos deixará.
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 E Israel esteve por muitos dias sem o verdadeiro Deus, e sem sacerdote que o ensinasse, e sem lei.
Then many days will pass in Israel, apart from the true God, and apart from a learned priest, and apart from the law.
4 Mas quando na sua angústia se convertiam ao Senhor, Deus de Israel, e o buscavam, o achavam.
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 E naqueles tempos não havia paz, nem para o que saía, nem para o que entrava, mas muitas perturbações sobre todos os habitantes daquelas terras.
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 Porque gente contra gente, e cidade contra cidade se despedaçavam; porque Deus os perturbara com toda a angústia.
For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.
7 Mas esforçai-vos, e não desfaleçam as vossas mãos; porque a vossa obra tem uma recompensa.
But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
8 Ouvindo pois Asa estas palavras, e a profecia do profeta, filho d'Obed, esforçou-se, e tirou as abominações de toda a terra de Judá e de Benjamin, como também das cidades que tomára nas montanhas de Ephraim: e renovou o altar do Senhor, que estava diante do pórtico do Senhor.
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 E ajuntou a todo o Judá, e Benjamin, e com eles os estrangeiros de Ephraim e Manasseh, e de Simeão; porque de Israel descaiam a ele em grande número, vendo que o Senhor seu Deus era com ele.
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 E ajuntaram-se em Jerusalém no terceiro mes; no ano décimo do reinado d'Asa.
And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
11 E no mesmo dia ofereceram em sacrifício ao Senhor, do despojo que trouxeram, seiscentos bois e seis mil ovelhas.
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 E entraram no concerto de buscarem o Senhor, Deus de seus pais, com todo o seu coração, e com toda a sua alma;
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 E de que todo aquele que não buscasse ao Senhor, Deus de Israel, morresse; desde o menor até ao maior, e desde o homem até à mulher.
“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 E juraram ao Senhor, em alta voz, com júbilo e com trombetas e buzinas.
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 E todo o Judá se alegrou deste juramento; porque com todo o seu coração juraram, e com toda a sua vontade o buscaram, e o acharam: e o Senhor lhes deu repouso em redor.
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 E também a Maaca, mãe do rei Asa, ele a depôs, para que não fosse mais rainha; porquanto fizera a Aserá um horrível ídolo; e Asa destruiu o seu horrível ídolo, e o despedaçou, e o queimou junto ao ribeiro de Cedron.
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 Os altos porém não se tiraram de Israel; contudo o coração d'Asa foi perfeito todos os seus dias.
But some high places were left in Israel. Even so, the heart of Asa was perfect during all his days.
18 E trouxe as coisas que tinha consagrado seu pai, e as coisas que mesmo tinha consagrado à casa de Deus: prata, e ouro, e vasos.
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 E não houve guerra até ao ano trigésimo quinto do reino d'Asa.
Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.
