2 Reis 23

1 O rei enviou, e eles reuniram a ele todos os anciãos de Judá e de Jerusalém.

Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.

2 O rei subiu à casa de Javé, e com ele todos os homens de Judá e todos os habitantes de Jerusalém - com os sacerdotes, os profetas e todo o povo, tanto pequeno como grande; e leu em suas audiências todas as palavras do livro do pacto que foi encontrado na casa de Javé.

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 O rei ficou ao lado da coluna e fez um pacto perante Iavé para caminhar depois de Iavé e guardar seus mandamentos, seus testemunhos e seus estatutos com todo o seu coração e toda a sua alma, para confirmar as palavras deste pacto que foram escritas neste livro; e todo o povo concordou com o pacto.

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 O rei ordenou a Hilquias, o sumo sacerdote, e aos sacerdotes da segunda ordem, e aos guardas do umbral, que tirassem do templo de Javé todos os vasos que foram feitos para Baal, para o Asherah, e para todo o exército do céu; e ele os queimou fora de Jerusalém nos campos do Cedron, e levou suas cinzas para Betel.

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 Ele se livrou dos sacerdotes idólatras que os reis de Judá tinham ordenado para queimar incenso nos lugares altos das cidades de Judá e nos lugares ao redor de Jerusalém; aqueles que também queimavam incenso para Baal, para o sol, para a lua, para os planetas, e para todo o exército do céu.

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 Ele trouxe o Asherah da casa de Iavé, fora de Jerusalém, para o riacho Kidron, e o queimou no riacho Kidron, e o espancou até o pó, e lançou seu pó sobre os túmulos do povo comum.

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 Ele quebrou as casas das prostitutas do santuário masculino que estavam na casa de Yahweh, onde as mulheres teceram enforcamentos para o Asherah.

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 Ele trouxe todos os sacerdotes para fora das cidades de Judá, e sujou os altos lugares onde os sacerdotes tinham queimado incenso, de Geba a Beersheba; e derrubou os altos lugares dos portões que estavam na entrada do portão de Josué, o governador da cidade, que estavam à esquerda de um homem no portão da cidade.

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 No entanto, os sacerdotes dos altos não subiram ao altar de Javé em Jerusalém, mas comeram pães ázimos entre seus irmãos.

10 Ele contaminou Topheth, que fica no vale dos filhos de Hinnom, para que nenhum homem pudesse fazer seu filho ou sua filha passar pelo fogo para Molech.

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 Ele tirou os cavalos que os reis de Judá tinham dedicado ao sol, na entrada da casa de Yahweh, pelo quarto de Nathan Melech, o oficial que estava na corte; e ele queimou as carruagens do sol com fogo.

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 O rei quebrou os altares que estavam no telhado da sala superior de Ahaz, que os reis de Judá tinham feito, e os altares que Manassés tinha feito nas duas cortes da casa de Yahweh, e os derrubou dali, e jogou seu pó no riacho Kidron.

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 O rei profanou os lugares altos que estavam diante de Jerusalém, que estavam à direita da montanha da corrupção, que Salomão, rei de Israel, tinha construído para Astoreth a abominação dos sidônios, e para Chemosh a abominação dos moabitas, e para Milcom a abominação dos filhos de Amon.

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 Ele quebrou em pedaços os pilares, cortou os postes de Asherah e encheu seus lugares com ossos de homens.

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 Além disso, o altar que estava em Betel e o lugar alto que Jeroboão, filho de Nebat, que fez Israel pecar, tinha feito, mesmo aquele altar e o lugar alto que ele quebrou; e ele queimou o lugar alto e bateu nele até o pó, e queimou o Asherah.

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 Enquanto Josias se transformava, ele espiou os túmulos que estavam lá na montanha; e enviou, e tirou os ossos dos túmulos, e os queimou sobre o altar, e o contaminou, segundo a palavra de Javé que o homem de Deus proclamou, que proclamou estas coisas.

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 Então ele disse: “Que monumento é esse que eu vejo?”. Os homens da cidade lhe disseram: “É o túmulo do homem de Deus que veio de Judá e proclamou estas coisas que você fez contra o altar de Betel”.

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 Ele disse: “Deixe-o estar! Que ninguém lhe mexa os ossos”. Então eles deixaram seus ossos em paz, com os ossos do profeta que saiu de Samaria.

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 Todas as casas também dos lugares altos que estavam nas cidades de Samaria, que os reis de Israel tinham feito para provocar a ira de Iavé, Josias tirou, e fez a eles de acordo com todos os atos que ele tinha feito em Betel.

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 Ele matou todos os sacerdotes dos altos que estavam ali, nos altares, e queimou ossos de homens sobre eles; e retornou a Jerusalém.

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 O rei ordenou a todo o povo, dizendo: “Guardai a Páscoa para Javé vosso Deus, como está escrito neste livro do convênio”.

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 Certamente não foi celebrada tal Páscoa desde os dias dos juízes que julgavam Israel, nem em todos os dias dos reis de Israel, nem dos reis de Judá;

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 mas no décimo oitavo ano do rei Josias, esta Páscoa foi celebrada a Iavé em Jerusalém.

But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.

24 Além disso, Josias removeu aqueles que tinham espíritos familiares, os feiticeiros e os terafins, e os ídolos, e todas as abominações que foram vistas na terra de Judá e em Jerusalém, para confirmar as palavras da lei que estavam escritas no livro que Hilquias, o sacerdote, encontrou na casa de Yahweh.

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 Não houve rei como ele antes dele, que se voltou para Javé com todo o seu coração, com toda a sua alma e com todo o seu poder, de acordo com toda a lei de Moisés; e não houve rei como ele que se levantou depois dele.

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 Notwithstanding, Javé não se voltou da ferocidade de sua grande ira, com a qual sua ira ardia contra Judá, por causa de toda a provocação com que Manassés o havia provocado.

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 Javé disse: “Eu também tirarei Judá da minha vista, como tirei Israel; e rejeitarei esta cidade que escolhi, até Jerusalém, e a casa da qual eu disse: 'Meu nome estará lá'”.

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 Agora o resto dos atos de Josias, e tudo o que ele fez, não estão escritos no livro das crônicas dos reis de Judá?

[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 Em seus dias, o Faraó Neco, rei do Egito, subiu contra o rei da Assíria até o rio Eufrates; e o rei Josias foi contra ele, mas o Faraó Neco o matou em Megido quando o viu.

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 Seus servos o levaram morto em uma carruagem de Megido, o levaram para Jerusalém e o sepultaram em sua própria tumba. O povo da terra tomou Jeoacaz, filho de Josias, e o ungiram, e o fizeram rei no lugar de seu pai.

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 Jehoahaz tinha vinte e três anos de idade quando começou a reinar; e reinou três meses em Jerusalém. O nome de sua mãe era Hamutal, filha de Jeremias de Libnah.

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 Ele fez o que era mau aos olhos de Iavé, de acordo com tudo o que seus pais tinham feito.

Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.

33 O Faraó Neco o pôs em prisão em Ribla, na terra de Hamath, para que ele não reinasse em Jerusalém; e colocou a terra a um tributo de cem talentos de prata e um talento de ouro.

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 O Faraó Neco fez de Eliaquim o filho de Josias rei no lugar de seu pai, e mudou seu nome para Jeoiaquim; mas ele levou Jeoiaquim embora, e veio para o Egito e morreu lá.

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 Jehoiaquim deu a prata e o ouro ao Faraó; mas ele tributou a terra para dar o dinheiro de acordo com o mandamento do Faraó. Ele exigiu a prata e o ouro do povo da terra, de todos de acordo com sua avaliação, para dá-la ao Faraó Necoh.

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 Jehoiakim tinha vinte e cinco anos de idade quando começou a reinar, e reinou onze anos em Jerusalém. O nome de sua mãe era Zebidah, filha de Pedaías de Rumah.

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 Ele fez o que era mau aos olhos de Iavé, de acordo com tudo o que seus pais haviam feito.

He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.