2 Crónicas 31
1 Hechas todas estas cosas, salió todo Israel, los que se habían hallado por las ciudades de Judá, y quebraron las estatuas, y destruyeron los bosques, y derribaron los altos y los altares por todo Judá y Ben-jamín: y también en Efraím y Manasés hasta acabarlo todo: y volviéronse todos los hijos de Israel cada uno a su posesión, y a sus ciudades.
After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.
2 Y constituyó Ezequías los repartimientos de los sacerdotes y de los Levitas conforme a sus repartimientos, cada uno según su oficio: los sacerdotes y los Levitas para el holocausto y pacíficos, para que ministrasen, para que glorificasen y alabasen a las puertas de las tiendas de Jehová.
Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.
3 La contribución del rey de su hacienda, era holocaustos a mañana y tarde, ítem, holocaustos para los sábados, nuevas lunas, y solemnidades, como está escrito en la ley de Jehová.
The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].
4 Mandó también al pueblo, que habitaba en Jerusalem, que diesen la parte a los sacerdotes y Levitas, para que se esforzasen en la ley de Jehová.
Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.
5 Y como este edicto fue divulgado, los hijos de Israel dieron muchas primicias de grano, vino, aceite, miel, y de todos los frutos de la tierra: y trajeron asimismo los diezmos de todas las cosas en abundancia.
As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.
6 También los hijos de Israel y de Judá, que habitaban en las ciudades de Judá, dieron asimismo los diezmos de las vacas y de las ovejas: y trajeron los diezmos de lo santificado, de las cosas que habían prometido a Jehová su Dios, y lo pusieron por montones.
The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.
7 En el mes tercero comenzaron a fundar aquellos montones, y en el mes séptimo acabaron.
They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
8 Y Ezequías y los príncipes vinieron a ver los montones, y bendijeron a Jehová, y a su pueblo Israel.
When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
9 Y preguntó Ezequías a los sacerdotes y a los Levitas acerca de los montones:
But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
10 Y respondióle Azarías sumo sacerdote, de la casa de Sadoc, y dijo: Desde que comenzaron a traer la ofrenda a la casa de Jehová, hemos comido, y hartádonos, y nos ha sobrado mucho: porque Jehová ha bendecido su pueblo, y ha quedado esta multitud.
Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”
11 Entonces mandó Ezequías que aparejasen cámaras en la casa de Jehová: y las aparejaron.
Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
12 Y metieron las primicias y diezmos, y las cosas consagradas fielmente, y dieron cargo de ello a Conenías Levita el principal, y a Semeí su hermano el segundo.
Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.
13 Y Jehiel, Azarías, Nahat, Azael, Jerimot, Josabad, Eliel, Jesmaquías, Mahat, y Banaías, fueron los prepósitos debajo de la mano de Conenías, y de Semeí su hermano, por mandamiento del rey Ezequías, y de Azarías príncipe de la casa de Dios.
Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.
14 Y Coré, hijo de Jemna, Levita, portero al oriente tenía cargo de las limosnas de Dios, y de las ofrendas de Jehová que se daban, y de todo lo que se santificaba.
Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.
15 Y a su mano estaban Edén, Ben-jamín, Jesué, Semeías, Amarías, y Sequenías, en las ciudades de los sacerdotes, para dar con fidelidad a sus hermanos sus partes conforme a sus ordenes, así al mayor como al menor;
Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.
16 Sin lo que se contaba para los varones de edad de tres años y arriba, a todos los que entraban en la casa de Jehová, cada cosa en su día por su ministerio, por sus estancias, y por sus ordenes:
They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.
17 Y a los que eran contados entre los sacerdotes por las familias de sus padres, y a los Levitas de edad de veinte años y arriba por sus estancias y ordenes.
The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.
18 Asimismo a los de su generación con todos sus niños, y sus mujeres, y sus hijos, e hijas, para toda la congregación: porque por la fe de estos se repartían las ofrendas.
They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.
19 Asimismo a los hijos de Aarón los sacerdotes, que estaban en los ejidos de sus ciudades, por todas las ciudades, los varones nombrados tenían cargo de dar sus porciones a todos los varones de los sacerdotes, y a todo el linaje de los Levitas.
[Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.
20 De esta manera hizo Ezequías en todo Judá, el cual hizo lo bueno, recto, y verdadero delante de Jehová su Dios.
That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
21 En todo cuanto comenzó en el servicio de la casa de Dios, y en la ley y mandamientos, buscó a su Dios: e hizo de todo corazón, y fue prosperado.
In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.
