2 Crônicas 15
1 O Espírito de Deus veio sobre Azariah, o filho de Oded.
Now Azariah, the son of Oded, had the Spirit of God within him.
2 Ele saiu ao encontro de Asa, e lhe disse: “Ouça-me, Asa, e todo Judá e Benjamim! Javé está com você enquanto você está com ele; e se você o procurar, ele será encontrado por você; mas se você o abandonar, ele o abandonará.
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 Agora por muito tempo Israel esteve sem o verdadeiro Deus, sem um padre educador 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 angústia deles se voltaram para Javé, o Deus de Israel, e o procuraram, ele foi encontrado por eles.
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 Naqueles tempos não havia paz para aquele que saía, nem para aquele que entrava; mas grandes problemas estavam em todos os habitantes das 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 Eles estavam em pedaços, nação contra nação, e cidade contra cidade; pois Deus os perturbava com toda adversidade.
For nation will fight against nation, and city against city. For the Lord will disturb them with every anguish.
7 Mas seja forte! Não deixeis que vossas mãos sejam frouxas, pois vosso trabalho será recompensado”.
But as for you, be strengthened, and do not let your hands be weakened. For there will be a reward for your work.”
8 Quando Asa ouviu estas palavras e a profecia de Oded, o profeta, tomou coragem e afastou as abominações de toda a terra de Judá e Benjamim, e das cidades que havia tirado da região montanhosa de Efraim; e renovou o altar de Yahweh que estava diante do alpendre de Yahweh.
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 Ele reuniu todo Judá e Benjamim, e aqueles que viviam com eles de Efraim, Manassés e Simeão; pois eles vieram a ele de Israel em abundância quando viram que Javé era seu Deus 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 So eles se reuniram em Jerusalém no terceiro mês, no décimo quinto ano do reinado de Asa.
And when they had arrived in Jerusalem, in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa,
11 Sacrificaram-se a Javé naquele dia, do saque que haviam trazido, setecentas cabeças de gado e sete 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 Entraram no pacto de buscar a Javé, o Deus de seus pais, com todo o coração e com toda a 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 que quem não buscasse a Javé, o Deus de Israel, fosse morto, pequeno ou grande, seja homem ou 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 Eles juraram a Javé com voz alta, com gritos, com trombetas e com cornetas.
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 Todo Judá se regozijou com o juramento, pois tinham jurado de todo o coração e o buscaram com todo seu desejo; e ele foi encontrado por eles. Então Yahweh lhes deu descanso a todos.
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 Também Maacah, a mãe de Asa, o rei, tirou de ser rainha mãe, porque ela tinha feito uma imagem abominável para uma Asherah; então Asa cortou sua imagem, moeu-a em pó e queimou-a no riacho 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 Mas os lugares altos não foram tirados de Israel; no entanto, o coração de Asa foi perfeito durante 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 Ele trouxe as coisas que seu pai havia dedicado e que ele mesmo havia dedicado, prata, ouro e vasos para a casa de Deus.
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 Não houve mais guerra ao trigésimo quinto ano do reinado de Asa.
Truly, there was no war, until the thirty-fifth year of the kingdom of Asa.
