2 Књига о царевима 23
1 Тада посла цар, те се скупише к њему све старешине Јудине и јерусалимске.
Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
2 И отиде цар у дом Господњи и с њим сви људи из земљи Јудине и сви Јерусалимљани и свештеници и пророци и сав народ, мало и велико, и прочита им све речи књиге заветне, која се нађе у дому Господњем.
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 И цар стојећи код ступа учини завет пред Господом да ће они ићи за Господом и држати заповести Његове и сведочанства Његова и уредбе Његове свим срцем и свом душом, вршећи речи тог завета написане у тој књизи. И сав народ приста на завет.
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 Тада заповеди цар Хелкији, поглавару свештеничком и свештеницима другог реда и онима који чуваху врата, да изнесу из цркве Господње све ствари које беху начињене Валу и гају и свој војсци небеској; и спали их иза Јерусалима у пољу кедронском, и однесе пепео од њих у Ветиљ.
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 И сврже свештенике идолске које беху поставили цареви Јудини да каде по висинама у градовима Јудиним и око Јерусалима тако и оне који кађаху Валу, сунцу и месецу и звездама и свој војсци небеској.
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 И изнесе гај из дома Господњег иза Јерусалима на поток Кедрон, и спали га на потоку Кедрону и сатре у прах, и просу прах на гробове синова народних.
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 И поквари куће курварске које беху у дому Господњем, у којима жене ткаху застираче за гај.
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 И доведавши све свештенике из градова Јудиних оскврни висине где кађаху свештеници од Геве до Вирсавеје, и поквари висине на вратима, и која беше на уласку на вратима Исуса заповедника градског налево од врата градских.
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 Али свештеници оних висина не приступаху к олтару Господњем у Јерусалиму, него јеђаху пресне хлебове међу браћом својом.
10 Оскврни и Тофет, који беше у долини синова Еномових, да не би нико више водио сина свог ни кћери своје кроз огањ Молоху.
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 И уклони коње које беху поставили цареви Јудини сунцу од уласка у дом Господњи до куће Натан-Мелеха дворанина, која беше у Фаруриму; а кола сунчана сажеже огњем.
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 И олтаре на крову собе Ахазове, које беху начинили цареви Јудини, и олтаре које беше начинио Манасија у оба трема дома Господњег, поквари цар, и узевши их оданде баци прах од њих у поток Кедрон.
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 И висине према Јерусалиму с десне стране на гори Маслинској, које беше начинио Соломун, цар Израиљев Астароти гаду сидонском и Хемосу гаду моавском и Мелхому гаду синова Амонових, оскврни цар.
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 И изломи ликове и исече гајеве, и места њихова напуни костију људских.
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 И олтар, који беше у Ветиљу, висину, коју беше начинио Јеровоам, син Наватов, који наведе на грех Израиља, и олтар и висину поквари, и спаливши висину сатре је у прах, и спали гај.
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 И обазревши се Јосија виде гробове који беху онде на гори, и посла те извадише кости из гробова, и сажеже их на олтару и оскврни га, по речи Господњој, коју рече човек Божји, који напред каза те ствари.
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 И рече: Какав је оно споменик што видим? Рекоше му грађани: Оно је гроб човека Божијег који дође из Јуде и напред каза то што си учинио на олтару у Ветиљу.
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 А он рече: Оставите га, нико да му не креће кости. Тако се сачуваше кости његове с костима оног пророка који дође из Самарије.
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 И све домове висина по градовима самаријским које начинише цареви Израиљеви гневећи Господа, поквари Јосија; и учини с њима све онако како учини у Ветиљу.
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 И покла све свештенике висина, који беху онуда, на олтарима, и сажеже кости људске на њима; потом се врати у Јерусалим.
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 Тада заповеди цар свему народу говорећи: Празнујте пасху Господу Богу свом, као што пише у књизи заветној.
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 Јер не би празнована овако пасха од времена судија које судише Израиљу и за све време царева Израиљевих и царева Јудиних.
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 Као што би осамнаесте године цара Јосије празнована пасха Господу у Јерусалиму.
But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
24 И оне што се договарају с духовима и врачаре, и ликове и гадне богове и све гадове који се виђаху у земљи Јудиној и у Јерусалиму истреби Јосија да изврши речи закона написане у књизи коју нађе Хелкија свештеник у дому Господњем.
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 Ни пре њега не беше таквог цара, који би се обратио ка Господу свим срцем својим и свом душом својом и свом снагом својом, сасвим по закону Мојсијевом, нити после њега наста такав као он.
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 Али се Господ не поврати од жестине великог гнева свог, којом се беше распалио гнев Његов на Јуду за све дражење којим Га беше дражио Манасија.
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 И рече Господ: и Јуду ћу одбацити од себе као што сам одбацио Израиља, и град ћу овај одбацити, који сам изабрао, Јерусалим, и дом, за који рекох: Ту ће бити име моје.
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 А остала дела Јосијина и све што је чинио, није ли записано у дневнику царева Јудиних?
[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 У његово време изађе Фараон Нехаон, цар мисирски на цара асирског к реци Ефрату, и цар Јосија изађе преда њ, а он како га виде уби га у Мегидону.
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 И мртвог метнуше га слуге његове на кола, и одвезоше га из Мегидона у Јерусалим, и погребоше га у гробу његовом; и народ земаљски узе Јоахаза, сина Јосијиног, и помазаше га и зацарише га на место оца његовог.
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 Двадесет и три године беше Јоахазу кад поче царовати, и царова три месеца у Јерусалиму. Матери му беше име Амутала, кћи Јеремијина, из Ливне.
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 Он чињаше што је зло пред Господом сасвим како су чинили оци његови.
Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
33 И свеза га Фараон Нехаон у Ривли, у земљи ематској да више не царује у Јерусалиму, и оглоби земљу сто таланата сребра и таланат злата.
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 А царем постави Фараон Нехаон Елијакима, сина Јосијиног на место Јосије оца његовог, и преде му име Јоаким; а Јоахаза узе и отиде у Мисир, а он умре онде.
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 А оно сребро и злато даде Јоаким Фараону разрезавши на земљу да би дао новце по заповести Фараоновој, од сваког узимајући како беше цењен, сребро и злато по народу у земљи, да да Фараону Нехаону.
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 Двадесет и пет година беше Јоакиму кад поче царовати, и царова једанаест година у Јерусалиму. Матери му беше име Зевуда, кћи Федајева, из Руме.
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 А он чињаше што је зло пред Господом сасвим како су чинили оци његови.
He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
