2 Crónicas 36
1 El pueblo de la tierra tomó a Joacaz, hijo de Josías, y lo proclamó 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 23 años cuando comenzó 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 lo destituyó en Jerusalén, e impuso al país un tributo de 3,3 toneladas de plata y 33 kilogramos 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 Después el rey de Egipto proclamó a Eliaquim, hermano de Joacaz, como rey de Judá y Jerusalén, y cambió su nombre por Joacim. Y [el rey] Necao tomó a su hermano Joacaz y lo 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 Joacim tenía 25 años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó 11 años en Jerusalén. Hizo lo malo ante Yavé su ʼElohim.
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 Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, subió contra él. Lo ató con grillos de bronce y lo llevó 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 Además, Nabucodonosor llevó a Babilonia parte de los utensilios de la Casa de Yavé y los 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 Joacim, las repugnancias que cometió y lo que fue hallado contra él, ciertamente están escritos en el rollo de los reyes de Israel y de Judá. Su hijo Joaquín reinó en su lugar.
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 comenzó a reinar, y reinó tres meses y diez días en Jerusalén. Hizo lo malo ante Yavé.
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 Después del año el rey Nabucodonosor lo detuvo y lo llevó a Babilonia juntamente con los utensilios preciosos de la Casa de Yavé. Proclamó a su hermano Sedequías como rey de 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 Sedequías tenía 21 años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó 11 años en Jerusalén.
Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years.
12 Hizo lo malo ante Yavé su ʼElohim, y no se humilló delante del profeta Jeremías, quien le hablaba de parte de Yavé. También se rebeló contra el rey Nabucodonosor, ante el cual juró por ʼElohim.
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 Se volvió indómito y obstinó su corazón para no regresar a Yavé, el ʼElohim 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 jefes de los sacerdotes y el pueblo aumentaron la infidelidad al actuar según las repugnancias de las naciones y profanar la Casa de Yavé que Él santificó 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 Yavé, el ʼElohim de sus antepasados, les envió sus mensajeros, porque Él se compadecía de su pueblo y de su vivienda.
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 se burlaron de los mensajeros de ʼElohim y despreciaron la Palabra de Él. Se burlaban de sus profetas hasta que la ira de Yavé se encendió contra su pueblo y no hubo 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 Entonces el rey de los caldeos subió contra ellos y mató a espada a sus jóvenes en la Casa de su Santuario. No tuvo compasión del joven, la doncella, el anciano ni el débil. A todos los entregó 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 Llevó a Babilonia todos los utensilios de la Casa de ʼElohim, grandes y pequeños, y los tesoros de la Casa de Yavé y los del rey y de sus jefes.
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 Quemaron la Casa de ʼElohim y destruyeron el muro de Jerusalén. Incendiaron todos los edificios fortificados y destruyeron todos los objetos valiosos que había en ella.
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 A los que escaparon de la espada los llevó cautivos a Babilonia, y fueron esclavos de él y sus hijos hasta cuando se impuso el reino de Persia,
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 cumpliera la Palabra de Yavé por boca de Jeremías, hasta cuando la tierra disfrutó sus sábados. Guardó sábado todo el tiempo de la desolación hasta cumplirse 70 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 En el primer año de Ciro, rey de Persia, para que se cumpliera la Palabra de Yavé pronunciada por boca de Jeremías, Yavé despertó el espíritu de Ciro, rey de Persia, quien hizo pregonar por escrito en todo su reino:
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 Ciro, rey de Persia, dice: Yavé, el ʼElohim del cielo, me dio todos los reinos de la tierra y me designó para que le construya una Casa en Jerusalén, que está en Judá. El que de ustedes sea de su pueblo, que Yavé su ʼElohim sea con él, y suba.
“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.”
