2 Crónicas 29
1 Ezequías tenía 25 años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó 29 años en Jerusalén. El nombre de su madre fue Abías, hija de Zacarías.
Hezekiah became king when he was twenty-five years old; and he was king in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; and his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 Hizo lo recto ante Yavé, según todo lo que hizo su antepasado David.
He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.
3 El primer año de su reinado, el mes primero, él abrió las puertas de la Casa de Yavé y las reparó.
In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.
4 Acercó a los sacerdotes y levitas, los reunió en la plaza oriental
And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,
5 y les dijo: Escúchenme, levitas. Santifíquense, santifiquen la Casa de Yavé el ʼElohim de sus antepasados y quiten la impureza del Santuario.
And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.
6 Porque nuestros antepasados fueron infieles e hicieron lo malo ante Yavé nuestro ʼElohim. Lo abandonaron, voltearon sus caras del Tabernáculo de Yavé y le dieron la espalda.
For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.
7 También cerraron las puertas del patio, apagaron las lámparas y no quemaron incienso ni ofrecieron holocaustos en el Santuario al ʼElohim de Israel.
The doors of his house have been shut and the lights put out; no perfumes have been burned or offerings made to the God of Israel in his holy place.
8 Por eso la ira de Yavé cayó sobre Judá y Jerusalén. Él los convirtió en un objeto de terror, horror y escarnio como lo ven sus propios ojos.
And so the wrath of the Lord has come on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has given them up to be a cause of fear and wonder and shame, as your eyes have seen.
9 Ciertamente por esto nuestros antepasados cayeron a espada, y nuestros hijos, hijas y mujeres están cautivos.
For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.
10 Ahora pues, decidí hacer un pacto con Yavé ʼElohim de Israel, para que el ardor de su ira se aparte de nosotros.
Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.
11 Por tanto, hijos míos, no sean negligentes, porque Yavé los escogió para que estén ante Él y le sirvan, a fin de que le ministren y le quemen incienso.
My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.
12 Entonces se levantaron los levitas: Mahat, hijo de Amasai, y Joel, hijo de Azarías, de los hijos de Coat; y de los hijos de Merari, Cis, hijo de Abdi, y Azarías, hijo de Jehalelel; y de los gersonitas, Joa, hijo de Zima, y Edén, hijo de Joa;
Then the Levites took their places; Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel, the son of Azariah, among the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish, the son of Abdi, and Azariah, the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah, the son of Zimmah, and Eden, the son of Joah;
13 y de los hijos de Elizafán, Simri y Jeiel; y de los hijos de Asaf, Zacarías y Matanías;
And of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeuel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 y de los hijos de Hemán, Jehiel y Simei; y de los hijos de Jedutún, Semaías y Uziel.
And of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 Éstos reunieron a sus hermanos. Se santificaron y entraron para limpiar la Casa de Yavé, según el mandamiento del rey y según las Palabras de Yavé.
And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.
16 Entraron los sacerdotes en la Casa de Yavé para limpiarla. Sacaron al patio de la Casa toda la impureza que hallaron en el Santuario de Yavé, y los levitas la tomaron para sacarla al torrente Cedrón.
And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to make it clean, and everything unclean which was to be seen in the Temple of the Lord they took out into the outer square of the Lord's house, and the Levites got it together and took it away to the stream Kidron.
17 Comenzaron la limpieza el primero día del mes primero, y el octavo día llegaron al patio de [la Casa de] Yavé. Continuaron limpiando otros ocho días. Terminaron el día 16 del mes primero.
On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.
18 Entonces fueron al rey Ezequías y le dijeron: Limpiamos toda la Casa de Yavé, el altar del holocausto, todos sus utensilios, la mesa de la Presentación y todos sus utensilios.
Then they went in to King Hezekiah and said, We have made all the house of the Lord clean, as well as the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the table for the holy bread, with all its vessels.
19 También preparamos y consagramos todos los utensilios que el rey Acaz desechó durante su reinado a causa de su infidelidad. Ahí están delante del altar de Yavé.
And all the vessels which were turned out by King Ahaz in his sin while he was king, we have put in order and made holy, and now they are in their places before the altar of the Lord.
20 El rey Ezequías madrugó, reunió a los jefes de la ciudad y subió a la Casa de Yavé.
Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord.
21 Llevaron siete becerros, siete carneros, siete corderos y siete machos cabríos como ofrenda por el pecado, a favor del reino, del Santuario y a favor de todo Judá. Mandó a los sacerdotes descendientes de Aarón ofrecerlos sobre el altar de Yavé.
And they took with them seven oxen and seven male sheep and seven lambs and seven he-goats as a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the holy house and for Judah. And he gave orders to the sons of Aaron, the priests, that these were to be offered on the altar of the Lord.
22 Degollaron los becerros. Los sacerdotes recogieron la sangre y la rociaron hacia el altar. Hicieron lo mismo con los carneros y los corderos.
So they put the oxen to death and their blood was given to the priests to be drained out against the altar; then they put the male sheep to death, draining out their blood against the altar, and they put the lambs to death, draining out their blood against the altar.
23 Después acercaron los machos cabríos ante el rey y la congregación para la ofrenda que apacigua. Colocaron sus manos sobre ellos.
Then they took the he-goats for the sin-offering, placing them before the king and the meeting of the people, and they put their hands on them:
24 Los sacerdotes los degollaron e hicieron una ofrenda que apacigua con su sangre sobre el altar, para hacer ofrenda que apacigua por todo Israel, porque el rey ordenó que el holocausto y la ofrenda se hicieran a favor de todo Israel.
And the priests put them to death, and made a sin-offering with their blood on the altar, to take away the sin of all Israel: for the king gave orders that the burned offering and the sin-offering were for all Israel.
25 Colocó a los levitas en la Casa de Yavé con címbalos, salterios y arpas, según el mandamiento de David, de Gad, vidente del rey, y del profeta Natán, pues ese mandamiento llegó de Yavé por medio de sus profetas.
Then he put the Levites in their places in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments of music as ordered by David and Gad, the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for the order was the Lord's, given by his prophets.
26 Se pusieron en pie los levitas con los instrumentos de David y los sacerdotes con las trompetas.
So the Levites took their places with David's instruments, and the priests with their horns.
27 Entonces Ezequías ordenó que se ofreciera el holocausto sobre el altar. Cuando comenzó el holocausto, también comenzó el cántico de Yavé, el sonido de las trompetas y los instrumentos de David, rey de Israel.
And Hezekiah gave the word for the burned offering to be offered on the altar. And when the burned offering was started, then the song of the Lord was started, with the blowing of horns and with all the instruments of David, king of Israel.
28 Toda la congregación se postró mientras elevaban cánticos y tocaban las trompetas, todo hasta cuando el holocausto fue consumido.
And all the people gave worship, to the sound of songs and the blowing of horns; and this went on till the burned offering was ended.
29 Cuando se consumió el holocausto, el rey y todos los que estaban con él se inclinaron y se postraron.
And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads.
30 Entonces el rey Ezequías y los jefes ordenaron a los levitas que alabaran a Yavé con las palabras de David y del vidente Asaf. Ellos elevaron alabanzas con gran júbilo, se inclinaron y se postraron.
Then King Hezekiah and the captains gave orders to the Levites to give praise to God in the words of David and Asaph the seer. And they made songs of praise with joy, and with bent heads gave worship.
31 Ezequías tomó la palabra: Ahora ustedes se consagraron a Yavé. Acérquense y ofrezcan sacrificios y ofrendas de acción de gracias en la Casa de Yavé. Y la congregación ofreció sacrificios y ofrendas de acción de gracias. Todos los generosos de corazón ofrecieron holocaustos.
Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings.
32 La congregación llevó 70 becerros, 100 carneros y 200 corderos como holocausto a Yavé.
The number of burned offerings which the people took in was seventy oxen, a hundred male sheep, and two hundred lambs: all these were for burned offerings to the Lord.
33 Las ofrendas consagradas fueron 600 becerros y 3.000 ovejas.
And the holy things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
34 Pero los sacerdotes eran muy pocos y no bastaban para desollar los holocaustos. Sus hermanos levitas les ayudaron hasta terminar la labor, y hasta cuando los demás sacerdotes se santificaron, porque los levitas fueron más rectos de corazón para santificarse que los sacerdotes.
There were not enough priests for the work of cutting up all the burned offerings; so their brothers the Levites gave them help till the work was done and the priests had made themselves holy: for the Levites were more upright in heart to make themselves holy than the priests.
35 Hubo holocaustos en abundancia, grasa de las ofrendas de paz y las libaciones para cada holocausto. De esta manera el servicio en la Casa de Yavé quedó restablecido.
And there was a great amount of burned offerings, with the fat of the peace-offerings and the drink offerings for every burned offering. So the work of the Lord's house was put in order.
36 Ezequías se regocijó con todo el pueblo porque ʼElohim lo preparó, pues la celebración ocurrió de manera tan repentina.
And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.
