2 Crônicas 25
1 Era Amasias da idade de vinte e cinco anos, quando começou a reinar, e reinou vinte e nove anos em Jerusalém: e era o nome de sua mãe Joadan, de Jerusalém.
Amaziah was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
2 E fez o que era reto aos olhos do Senhor, porém não com coração inteiro.
Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not do them enthusiastically.
3 Sucedeu pois que, sendo-lhe o reino já confirmado, matou a seus servos que feriram o rei seu pai;
As soon as he was in complete control of his kingdom, he caused to be executed the officials who had murdered his father.
4 Porém não matou a seus filhos: mas fez como na lei está escrito, no livro de Moisés, como o Senhor ordenou, dizendo: Não morrerão os pais pelos filhos, nem os filhos morrerão pelos pais; mas cada um morrerá pelo seu pecado
But he did not command their sons to be executed; he obeyed what was in the laws that Moses had written. In those laws Yahweh had commanded, “People must not be executed because of [what] their children [have done], and children must not be executed for [what] their parents [have done]. People must be executed only for the sins that they themselves have committed.”
5 E Amasias ajuntou a Judá e os pôs segundo as casas dos pais, por chefes de milhares, e por chefes de centenas, por todo o Judá e Benjamin; e os numerou, de vinte anos e daí para cima, e achou deles trezentos mil escolhidos que saiam ao exército, e levavam lança e escudo.
Amaziah summoned the men of [the tribes of] Judah and Benjamin to come to Jerusalem, and there he put them in groups, each clan in a group by themselves. Then he appointed officers to command each group. Some officers commanded 100 men and some commanded 1,000 men. They counted the men who were at least 20 years old; altogether there were 300,000 men. They were all men who were prepared to be in the army, and able to [fight well, ] using spears and shields.
6 Também de Israel tomou a soldo cem mil varões valentes, por cem talentos de prata.
Amaziah also hired 100,000 capable soldiers from Israel and paid almost four tons of silver for them.
7 Porém um homem de Deus veio a ele, dizendo: Oh rei, não deixes ir contigo o exército de Israel: porque o Senhor não é com Israel, a saber, com os filhos de Ephraim.
But a prophet came to him and said, “Your majesty, you must not allow those soldiers from Israel to march with your soldiers, because Yahweh does not help the people of the tribe of Ephraim or from [anywhere else in] Israel.
8 Se porém fores, faze-o, esforça-te para a peleja; Deus te fará cair diante do inimigo; porque força há em Deus para ajudar e para fazer cair
Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.”
9 E disse Amasias ao homem de Deus: Que se fará pois dos cem talentos de prata que dei às tropas de Israel? E disse o homem de Deus: Mais tem o Senhor que te dar do que isso.
Amaziah asked that prophet, “If I do that, what about the huge amount of silver that I paid to hire those soldiers from Israel?” The prophet replied, “Yahweh is able to pay you back more money than you paid [to hire those soldiers].”
10 Então separou Amasias as tropas que lhe tinham vindo de Ephraim, para que se fossem ao seu lugar; pelo que se acendeu a sua ira contra Judá, e voltaram para o seu lugar em ardor d'ira.
So Amaziah told those soldiers from Israel to return home. They left to go home, but they were very angry with the king of Judah [for not allowing them to stay and fight].
11 Esforçou-se pois Amasias, e conduziu o seu povo, e foi-se ao vale do sal; e feriu dos filhos de Seir dez mil.
Then Amaziah became brave, and he led his army to the Salt Valley. There they killed 10,000 men from the Edom people-group.
12 Também os filhos de Judá prenderam vivos dez mil, e os trouxeram ao cume da rocha; e do mais alto da rocha os lançaram do alto abaixo, e todos arrebentaram.
The army of Judah also captured 10,000 others, and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them all down over the cliff, with the result that their corpses were all smashed to pieces.
13 Porém os homens das tropas que Amasias despedira, para que não fossem com ele à peleja, deram sobre as cidades de Judá desde Samaria, até Beth-horon; e feriram deles três mil, e saquearam grande despojo.
While that was happening, the soldiers from Israel whom Amaziah had sent home after not allowing them to fight along with his soldiers, raided cities and towns in Judea, from Samaria [city] to Beth-Horon [town]. They killed 3,000 people and took away a great amount of valuable things.
14 E sucedeu que, depois que Amasias veio da matança dos idumeus, e trouxe consigo os deuses dos filhos de Seir, tomou-os por seus deuses, e prostrou-se diante deles, e queimou-lhes incenso.
When Amaziah returned [to Jerusalem] after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to [worship] them and offered sacrifices to them.
15 Então a ira do Senhor se acendeu contra Amasias; e mandou-lhe um profeta que lhe disse: Porque buscaste deuses do povo, que a seu povo não livraram da tua mão?
Because of that, Yahweh was very angry with Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you worship these foreign gods that were not even able to save their own people when your army attacked them?”
16 E sucedeu que, falando-lhe ele, lhe respondeu: puseram-te por conselheiro do rei? cala-te, porque te feririam? então o profeta parou, e disse: Bem vejo eu que já o Senhor deliberou destruir-te; porquanto fizeste isto, e não deste ouvidos a meu conselho.
While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop [talking]! If you say anything more, [I will tell my soldiers to] kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have [begun to] worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.
17 E, tendo tomado conselho, Amasias, rei de Judá, enviou a Joás, filho de Joachaz, filho de Jehu, rei de Israel, a dizer: Vem, vejamo-nos cara a cara.
Some time later Amaziah, the king of Judah, consulted his advisors. Then he sent a message to Jehoash, the king of Israel. He wrote, “Come here and let’s talk together.”
18 Porém Joás, rei de Israel, mandou dizer a Amasias, rei de Judá: O cardo que estava no líbano mandou dizer ao cedro que estava no líbano: Dá tua filha a meu filho por mulher; porém os animais do campo que estão no líbano passaram e pizaram o cardo.
But Jehoash replied to King Amaziah, “One time a thistle growing [in the mountains] in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar tree saying, ‘Let your daughter marry my son.’ But a wild animal in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle under its feet.
19 Tu dizes: Eis que tenho ferido os idumeus; e elevou-se o teu coração, para te glóriares: agora pois fica em tua casa; porque te entremeterias no mal, para caires tu e Judá contigo?
[The meaning of what I am saying is that] you are saying to yourself that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so you have become very proud. But you should stay at your home. It would not be good for you to cause trouble, which would result in you and your kingdom of Judah being destroyed.”
20 Porém Amasias não lhe deu ouvidos, porque isto vinha de Deus, para entrega-los na mão dos seus inimigos; porquanto buscaram os deuses dos idumeus.
But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash’s message. That happened because God wanted Jehoash’s army to defeat them, because they were worshiping the gods of Edom.
21 E Joás, rei de Israel, subiu; e ele e Amasias, rei de Judá, se viram cara a cara em Beth-semes, que está em Judá.
So Jehoash’s army attacked. Their two armies faced each other at Beth-Shemesh [city] in Judah.
22 E Judá foi ferido diante de Israel: e foram-se cada um para as suas tendas.
The army of Judah was badly defeated by the army of Israel, and all the soldiers of Judah fled to their homes.
23 E Joás, rei de Israel, prendeu a Amasias, rei de Judá, filho de Joás, o filho de Joachaz em Beth-semes, e o trouxe a Jerusalém; e derribou o muro de Jerusalém, desde a porta de Ephraim até à porta da esquina, quatrocentos côvados.
King Jehoash’s army also captured King Amaziah there. Then he brought Amaziah to Jerusalem, and his soldiers tore down the wall [that was around the city], from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about 600 feet long.
24 Também tomou todo o ouro, e a prata, e todos os vasos que se acharam na casa de Deus com Obed-edom, e os tesouros da casa do rei, e os reféns; e voltou para Samaria.
His soldiers also carried away the gold and silver and other valuable furnishings from the temple which the descendants of Obed-Edom had previously been guarding. They also took away the valuable things in the palace, and they took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.
25 E viveu Amasias, filho de Joás, rei de Judá, depois da morte de Joás, filho de Joachaz, rei de Israel, quinze anos.
King Jehoash of Israel died, and King Amaziah of Judah lived for 15 years after that.
26 Quanto ao mais dos sucessos d'Amasias, tanto os primeiros como os últimos, eis que porventura não estão escritos no livro dos reis de Judá e de Israel?
An account of all the other things that Amaziah did while he was the king [of Judah] is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.
27 E desde o tempo que Amasias se desviou de após o Senhor, conspiraram contra ele em Jerusalém, porém ele fugiu para Lachis, mas enviaram após ele a Lachis, e o mataram ali.
From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to Lachish [city], but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.
28 E o trouxeram sobre cavalos e o sepultaram com seus pais na cidade de Judá.
They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors [had been buried] in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’.
