2 Reyes 23
1 Entonces el rey convocó a todos los ancianos de Judá y Jerusalén para que se reunieran con él.
Then the king summoned all the elders of Jerusalem and [of the other places in] Judah.
2 El rey subió a la Casa de Yavé, y todo hombre de Judá y todos los habitantes de Jerusalén iban con él, así como los sacerdotes, los profetas y todo el pueblo, desde el menor hasta el mayor. Entonces él leyó a oídos de ellos todas las Palabras del rollo del Pacto que fue hallado en el Templo de Yavé.
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 El rey se colocó en pie junto a la columna. Hizo pacto delante de Yavé de seguirlo, guardar sus Mandamientos, Testimonios y Preceptos con todo el corazón y toda el alma, y cumplir las Palabras del Pacto escritas en ese rollo. Y todo el pueblo confirmó el Pacto.
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 El rey ordenó al sumo sacerdote Hilcías, a los sacerdotes de segundo orden y a los guardianes de la entrada, que sacaran del Santuario de Yavé todos los utensilios hechos para baal, Asera y todo el ejército del cielo. Los quemó fuera de Jerusalén, en los campos del Cedrón, y llevó sus cenizas a Bet-ʼEl.
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 Destituyó a los sacerdotes idólatras que los reyes de Judá designaron para quemar incienso en los lugares altos, las ciudades de Judá y los alrededores de Jerusalén. También destituyó a los que quemaban incienso a baal, al sol y a la luna, a Mazzalot y a todo el ejército del cielo.
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 Sacó la Asera de la Casa de Yavé, y la llevó fuera de Jerusalén, al torrente de Cedrón. Allí la quemó hasta reducirla a cenizas y echó sus cenizas sobre las tumbas del pueblo común.
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 Derribó además las viviendas de los sodomitas dedicados a la prostitución las cuales estaban en la Casa de Yavé, donde las mujeres tejían tiendas para la Asera.
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 Llamó a todos los sacerdotes de las ciudades de Judá, declaró impuros los lugares altos donde los sacerdotes quemaban incienso, desde Geba hasta Beerseba, y destruyó los lugares altos de las puertas que estaban en la entrada del portón de Josué, gobernador de la ciudad, a la izquierda de la entrada a la ciudad.
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 Pero a los sacerdotes de los lugares altos no se les permitió subir al altar de Yavé en Jerusalén, aunque sí comían panes sin levadura entre sus hermanos.
10 También declaró impuro a Tofet, que está en el valle del hijo de Hinom, para que nadie hiciera pasar por fuego a su hijo o a su hija en honor a Moloc.
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 Quitó también los caballos que los reyes de Judá dedicaron al sol en la entrada a la Casa de Yavé, junto a la cámara de Natán-melec, el funcionario que tenía a su cargo las dependencias, y quemó los carruajes del sol en el fuego.
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 Asimismo, el rey demolió los altares que los reyes de Judá hicieron en la azotea del aposento superior de Acaz, y los altares que Manasés erigió en los dos patios de la Casa de Yavé. Los destrozó allí y echó sus cenizas en el torrente de Cedrón.
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 Del mismo modo el rey declaró impuros los lugares altos que estaban al este de Jerusalén, a la mano derecha de la Montaña de la Destrucción, que Salomón, rey de Israel, dedicó a Astarot, repugnancia de los sidonios, a Quemos, repugnancia de Moab, y a Milcom, repugnancia de los hijos de Amón.
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 También destrozó las estatuas, taló las Aseras y llenó aquellos sitios con huesos de hombres.
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 Además destrozó el altar que estaba en Bet-ʼEl y el lugar alto que hizo Jeroboam, hijo de Nabat, por medio del cual indujo a pecar a Israel. Destrozó tanto ese altar como el lugar alto. Quemó el lugar alto, lo redujo a cenizas y quemó la Asera.
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 Al regresar, Josías vio los sepulcros que estaban allí en la montaña y envió a recoger los huesos de los sepulcros. Los quemó sobre el altar y los declaró impuros, según la Palabra de Yavé que habló el varón de ʼElohim que anunció estas cosas.
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 Y preguntó: ¿Qué monumento es éste que veo? Y los hombres de la ciudad le respondieron: Es el sepulcro del varón de ʼElohim que vino de Judá y proclamó estas cosas que hiciste contra el altar de Bet-ʼEl.
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 Y él dijo: Déjenlo, que nadie mueva sus huesos.
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 Josías también quitó todos los santuarios de los lugares altos que había en las ciudades de Samaria, que los reyes de Israel hicieron para provocar a ira a Yavé. Hizo con ellos como hizo en Bet-ʼEl.
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 Además mató sobre los altares a todos los sacerdotes de los lugares altos que estaban allí, quemó sobre ellos huesos humanos y regresó a Jerusalén.
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 Luego el rey ordenó a todo el pueblo: Celebren la Pascua para Yavé su ʼElohim, según lo escrito en este rollo del Pacto.
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 En verdad no fue celebrada una Pascua como ésta desde los días de los jueces que juzgaron a Israel, ni en todos los días de los reyes de Israel y los reyes de Judá.
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 El año 18 del rey Josías fue celebrada esta Pascua para Yavé en Jerusalén.
But now, after Josiah had been ruling for almost 18 years, to [honor] Yahweh they celebrated the Passover Festival in Jerusalem.
24 Josías también eliminó a los médium y los espiritistas, los ídolos domésticos y todos los ídolos repugnantes, y todos los ídolos detestables que se veían en la tierra de Judá y en Jerusalén, para cumplir las Palabras de la Ley escritas en el rollo que el sacerdote Hilcías halló en la Casa de Yavé.
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 Ningún rey hubo como él antes de él, que se convirtiera a Yavé con todo su corazón, toda su alma y toda su fuerza, según toda la Ley de Moisés, ni tampoco se levantó otro igual después de él.
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 Sin embargo, Yavé no desistió del ardor de su gran ira, pues su ira se encendió contra Judá a causa de todas las provocaciones con las cuales lo provocó Manasés.
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 Y Yavé dijo: Como aparté a Israel de mi Presencia, también apartaré a Judá, y desecharé a esta ciudad que escogí, a Jerusalén, y la Casa de la cual dije: Allí estará mi Nombre.
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 Todo lo que hizo Josías, ¿no está escrito en el rollo de las Crónicas de los reyes de Judá?
[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 En aquellos días, Faraón Necao, rey de Egipto, subió hacia el río Éufrates a enfrentarse al rey de Asiria, y el rey Josías salió contra él. Pero cuando [Faraón Necao] lo vio, lo mató en Meguido.
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 Sus esclavos lo colocaron en un carruaje, lo llevaron muerto desde Meguido a Jerusalén y lo sepultaron en su sepulcro. Después el pueblo de la tierra tomó a Joacaz, hijo de Josías, lo ungieron y lo proclamaron rey en lugar de su padre.
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 Cuando Joacaz comenzó a reinar tenía 23 años, y reinó tres meses en Jerusalén. El nombre de su madre fue Hamutal, hija de Jeremías de Libna.
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 Hizo lo malo ante los ojos de Yavé, según todo lo que hicieron sus antepasados.
Joahaz did many things that Yahweh said were evil, just like many of his ancestors had done.
33 Faraón Necao lo encarceló en Ribla, en la tierra de Hamat, para que no reinara en Jerusalén, e impuso sobre la tierra un tributo de 3,3 toneladas de plata y 33 kilogramos de oro.
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 Entonces Faraón Necao proclamó rey a Eliaquim, hijo de Josías, en lugar de Josías su padre, y le cambió el nombre por Joacim. Tomó a Joacaz y lo llevó a Egipto, y murió allí.
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 Joacim pagó la plata y el oro a Faraón, pero tuvo que establecer un impuesto a la tierra, para entregar el dinero según la orden de Faraón. Exigió a la gente del pueblo que cada uno pagara, según su evaluación, la plata y el oro para entregarlo a Faraón Necao.
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 Cuando Joacim comenzó a reinar tenía 25 años, y reinó 11 años en Jerusalén. El nombre de su madre fue Zebuda, hija de Pedaías de Ruma.
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 Hizo lo malo ante Yavé, conforme a todo lo que hicieron sus antepasados.
He did many things that Yahweh says are evil, like his ancestors had done.
