2 Crónicas 15
1 Entonces el Espíritu de ʼElohim vino sobre Azarías, hijo de Oded,
The Spirit of God came on Azariah son of Oded.
2 quien salió al encuentro de Asa y le dijo: Escúchenme, Asa y todo Judá y Benjamín: Yavé está con ustedes, si ustedes están con Él. Si lo buscan, será hallado por ustedes, pero si lo abandonan, Él los abandonará.
He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Yahweh is with you, while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
3 Mucho tiempo estuvo Israel sin el ʼElohim verdadero, sin sacerdote que enseñara y sin Ley.
Now for a long period, Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without the law.
4 Pero cuando se volvieron a Yavé, el ʼElohim de Israel, en su aflicción y lo buscaron, Él les permitió encontrarlo.
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
5 En aquellos tiempos no había paz para el que salía ni para el que entraba, sino muchas aflicciones para todos los habitantes de las tierras.
In those times there was no peace for him who traveled away, nor for him who traveled to here; instead, great troubles were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
6 Así que una nación era destruida por otra nación y una ciudad por otra ciudad, porque ʼElohim las turbaba con toda clase de adversidades.
They were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city, for God troubled them with all kinds of suffering.
7 Pero esfuércense ustedes y no desmayen sus manos, porque hay recompensa para su labor.
But be strong, and do not let your hands be weak, for your work will be rewarded.”
8 Cuando Asa oyó estas palabras y la profecía de Azarías, hijo de Oded, se animó y quitó los ídolos repugnantes de toda la tierra de Judá, Benjamín y las ciudades que tomó en la región montañosa de Efraín. Reconstruyó el altar de Yavé que estaba delante del patio de Yavé.
When Asa heard these words, the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage and drove away the disgusting things from all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured from the hill country of Ephraim, and he rebuilt Yahweh's altar, which was in front of the portico of Yahweh's house.
9 Después los de Efraín, Manasés y Simeón, quienes vivían con Judá y Benjamín, se reunieron con ellos. Muchos de Israel se pasaron al [rey Asa] porque veían que Yavé su ʼElohim estaba con él.
He gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those who stayed with them—people from of Ephraim and Manasseh, and from Simeon. For they came from Israel to him in great numbers, when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.
10 Se reunieron en Jerusalén el mes tercero del año 15 del reinado de Asa.
So they gathered together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of Asa's reign.
11 Aquel día sacrificaron a Yavé 700 becerros y 7.000 ovejas del botín que llevaron.
They sacrificed to Yahweh in that day some of the plunder that they had brought: seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep and goats.
12 Hicieron un pacto solemne para buscar a Yavé ʼElohim de sus antepasados, con todo su corazón y su alma,
They entered into a covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their ancestors, with all their heart and with all their soul.
13 y que todo el que no buscara a Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, muriera, fuera grande o pequeño, hombre o mujer.
They agreed that whoever refused to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether the person was small or great, whether man or woman.
14 Juraron delante de Yavé con gran voz, gritos de júbilo, trompetas y cornetas.
They swore to Yahweh with a loud voice, with shouting, and with trumpets and horns.
15 Toda Judá se regocijó a causa del juramento, pues juraron con todo su corazón que lo buscarían con toda su voluntad. Y fue hallado por ellos, y Yavé les dio paz por todas partes.
All Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and they sought God with their whole desire, and he was found by them. Yahweh gave them peace all around them.
16 El rey Asa aun despojó a su propia madre Maaca de su dignidad real, porque hizo una imagen repugnante de Asera. Asa taló el ídolo repugnante, lo desmenuzó y lo quemó junto al torrente Cedrón.
He also removed Maacah, his grandmother, from being queen, because she had made a disgusting figure out of an Asherah pole. Asa cut down the disgusting figure, ground it to dust and burned it at the brook Kidron.
17 Sin embargo, los lugares altos no fueron quitados de Israel, aunque el corazón de Asa se mantuvo íntegro todo su tiempo.
But the high places were not taken out of Israel. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was completely devoted all his days.
18 Llevó plata, oro y utensilios a la Casa de ʼElohim, lo que su padre y él mismo consagraron.
He brought into the house of God the silver and gold and the utensils that he and his father had dedicated for that purpose.
19 No hubo guerra hasta el año 35 del reinado de Asa.
There was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa's reign.
