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1 Entonces el pueblo del país tomó a Joacaz, hijo de Josías, y le proclamaron rey en Jerusalén, en lugar de su padre.
Then the people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and appointed him as the king in Jerusalem.
2 Joacaz tenía veinte y tres años cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó tres meses en Jerusalén.
Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months.
3 El rey de Egipto le destituyó en Jerusalén, e impuso al país una contribución de cien talentos de plata y un talento de oro.
King Neco of Egypt [captured him and] prevented him from ruling any longer. He also forced the people of Judah to pay him a tax of almost four tons of silver and about 75 pounds of gold.
4 El rey de Egipto puso por rey sobre Judá y Jerusalén a Eliaquim, hermano de (Joacaz), cambiándole el nombre por el de Joakim. Y a Joacaz, su hermano, le tomó Necao y le llevó a Egipto.
The king of Egypt appointed Jehoahaz’s [younger] brother Eliakim to be the king of Judah. He changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. After Neco captured Jehoahaz, he took him to Egypt.
5 Joakim tenía veinte y cinco años cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó once años en Jerusalén. Hizo lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé, su Dios.
Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 11 years. He did things that Yahweh his God considers to be evil.
6 Subió Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, contra él, y le ató con cadenas de bronce para conducirle a Babilonia.
Then the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They [captured Jehoiakim and] bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
7 Nabucodonosor llevó a Babilonia también vasos de la Casa de Yahvé, que depositó en su templo en Babilonia.
Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers also took valuable things from the temple; they took them to Babylon and put them in king [Nebuchadnezzar’s] palace there.
8 Los demás hechos de Joakim, las abominaciones que hizo, y todo lo que le sucedió, he aquí que esto está escrito en el libro de los reyes de Israel y de Judá. En su lugar reinó su hijo Joaquín.
A record of the other things that happened while Jehoiakim was ruling, the detestable things that he did, including the evil things that people said that he did, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’. After [he was taken to Babylon], his son Jehoiachin became the king [of Judah].
9 Joaquín tenía ocho años cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó tres meses y diez días en Jerusalén, haciendo lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé.
Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months and ten days. He did things that Yahweh considers to be evil.
10 A la vuelta del año mandó el rey Nabucodonosor que le llevasen a Babilonia, juntamente con los objetos más preciosos de la Casa de Yahvé; y en su lugar puso a Sedecías, hermano de (Joaquín), por rey sobre Judá y Jerusalén.
During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent [soldiers] to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.
11 Sedecías tenía veinte y un años cuando empezó a reinar, y reinó once años en Jerusalén.
Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years.
12 Hizo lo que era malo a los ojos de Yahvé, su Dios, y no se humilló ante el profeta Jeremías que le hablaba de parte de Yahvé.
He did many things that Yahweh his God considered to be evil. And he did not humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah gave him a message from Yahweh [to warn him].
13 También se rebeló contra el rey Nabucodonosor, el cual le había hecho jurar por Dios; y endureció su cerviz e hizo obstinado su corazón, en vez de convertirse a Yahvé, el Dios de Israel.
He would not return to Yahweh, the God that the people of Israel [said that they worshiped]. Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to solemnly promise using God’s name [to be loyal to him]. Zedekiah became very stubborn.
14 También todos los príncipes de los sacerdotes y el pueblo se portaron muy impíamente, imitando todas las abominaciones de los gentiles y contaminando la Casa de Yahvé, que Él había santificado en Jerusalén.
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and also the people [of Judah] became more wicked again, doing all the detestable things that the people of the other nations did, and causing the temple in Jerusalem that Yahweh had caused to be holy to become [an] unacceptable [place to worship him].
15 Yahvé, el Dios de sus padres, les envió muy pronto reiteradas amonestaciones por medio de sus mensajeros, porque tenía compasión de su pueblo y de su morada.
Yahweh, the God whom the ancestors [of the people of Judah belonged to/worshiped], gave messages to his prophets many times, and the prophets told those messages to the people of Judah. Yahweh did that because he pitied his people and did not want his temple to be destroyed.
16 Pero ellos burlándose de los mensajeros de Dios, despreciaron sus palabras y se mofaron de sus profetas, hasta que subió la ira de Yahvé contra su pueblo a tal punto que no hubo más remedio.
But the people continually made fun of God’s messengers. They despised God’s messages. They ridiculed his prophets, until finally God became extremely angry with his people, with the result that nothing could stop him [from destroying Judah].
17 Por lo cual trajo (Dios) contra ellos al rey de los caldeos, que mató a espada a sus jóvenes en la Casa de su Santuario, sin perdonar a mancebo ni a doncella, a viejo ni a cabeza cana; a todos los entregó (Dios) en su mano.
He incited the king of Babylonia to attack [Judah with his army]. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.
18 Nabucodonosor lo llevó todo a Babilonia: todos los utensilios de la Casa de Dios, grandes y pequeños, los tesoros de la Casa de Yahvé, y los tesoros del rey y de sus príncipes.
His soldiers took to Babylon all the things that were used in God’s temple—big things and little things, all the valuable things, and the valuable things that belonged to the king and his officials.
19 Incendiaron la Casa de Dios y derribaron las murallas de Jerusalén; pegaron fuego a todos sus palacios y destruyeron todo cuanto en ellos había de precioso.
They burned the temple, and they broke down the wall surrounding Jerusalem. They burned all the palaces [in Jerusalem] and destroyed all the remaining valuable things there.
20 Y a los que escaparon de la espada, los llevaron cautivos a Babilonia, donde fueron esclavos de él y de sus hijos hasta la dominación del reino de los persas;
Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers took to Babylon the remaining people who had not been killed with their swords. Then those people became the king’s slaves and his son’s slaves, until the [army of the] king of Persia conquered [the army of Babylonia].
21 para que se cumpliese la palabra de Yahvé pronunciada por boca de Jeremías; hasta que el país hubo gozado de sus sábados; pues descansó todos los días de su desolación, hasta que se cumplieron los setenta años.
[Moses had said that every seventh year the people must not plant their fields; they must allow the soil to rest. But the people had not done that. So after the army of Babylonia destroyed Judah, ] the soil was allowed to rest. That continued for 70 years, fulfilling what Yahweh told Jeremiah and what Jeremiah had predicted/prophesied would happen.
22 El año primero de Ciro, rey de Persia, en cumplimiento de la palabra de Yahvé, pronunciada por boca de Jeremías, Yahvé movió el espíritu de Ciro, rey de Persia, el cual mandó publicar de viva voz, y también por escrito, en todo su reino, el siguiente edicto:
During the first year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, in order that what Yahweh told Jeremiah would happen would occur, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write this and proclaim it throughout his kingdom:
23 Así dice Ciro, rey de Persia: “Yahvé, el Dios del cielo, me ha dado todos los reinos de la tierra; y me ha encargado de edificarle una casa en Jerusalén, que está en Judá. Todos los de entre vosotros que formen parte de su pueblo, sea Yahvé, su Dios, con ellos y suban (a Jerusalén).
“I, Cyrus, the king of Persia, declare that Yahweh, the God [who rules] in heaven, has enabled me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms of this world. And he wants me to [command that my workers] build a temple {a temple be built} for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of his people living among you people of Persia are allowed to go to Jerusalem. And I will pray that Yahweh will be with them.”