2 Tuʻi 23

1 Pea naʻe fekau ʻe he tuʻi pea naʻa nau tānaki fakataha kiate ia ʻae kau mātuʻa kotoa pē ʻo Siuta mo Selūsalema.

And the king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2 Pea naʻe ʻalu hake ʻae tuʻi ki he fale ʻo Sihova fakataha mo e kau tangata kotoa pē ʻo Siuta mo e kakai kotoa pē ʻo Selūsalema, mo e kau taulaʻeiki, mo e kau palōfita, mo e kakai kotoa pē, ʻae siʻi mo e lahi: pea naʻe lau ʻe ia ʻi honau telinga ʻae ngaahi lea kotoa pē ʻae tohi ʻoe fuakava ʻaia kuo ʻilo ʻi he fale ʻo Sihova.

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their hearing all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

3 Pea naʻe tuʻu ʻae tuʻi ʻo ofi ki he pou ʻe taha, pea fai ʻe ia ʻae fuakava ʻi he ʻao ʻo Sihova, ke muimui ʻia Sihova, pea ke tauhi ʻene ngaahi fekau mo ʻene ngaahi fakamoʻoni, mo ʻene ngaahi tuʻutuʻuni ʻaki hono loto kotoa, mo hono laumālie kotoa, ke fai ʻae ngaahi lea ʻae fuakava ni ʻaia kuo tohi ʻi he tohi ni. Pea naʻe fakamoʻoni ʻae kakai kotoa pē ki he fuakava.

And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.

4 Pea naʻe fekau ʻe he tuʻi kia Hilikia ko e taulaʻeiki lahi, mo e kau taulaʻeiki ʻo hono ua ʻoe lakanga, mo e kau leʻo matapā, ke ʻomi kituʻa mei he fale tapu ʻo Sihova ʻae ngaahi ipu kotoa pē naʻe ngaohi maʻa Peali, pea maʻae vaoʻakau, pea maʻae ngaahi nāunau ʻoe langi: pea naʻa ne tutu ia ʻi tuaʻā ʻi Selūsalema ʻi he ngaahi ngoue ʻo Kitiloni, pea naʻa ne fetuku ʻa hono efuefu ʻo ia ki Peteli.

And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them to Bethel.

5 Pea naʻa ne fakangata ʻae kau taulatēvolo, ʻaia naʻe fakanofo ʻe he ngaahi tuʻi ʻo Siuta, ke tutu ʻae meʻa namu kakala ʻi he ngaahi potu māʻolunga ʻi he ngaahi kolo ʻo Siuta, pea ʻi he ngaahi potu naʻe takatakai ki Selūsalema; ʻakinautolu foki naʻe tutu ʻae meʻa namu kakala kia Peali, mo e laʻā, pea ki he māhina, pea ki he ngaahi fetuʻu, pea ki he nāunau kotoa pē ʻoe langi.

And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places around Jerusalem; them also that burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6 Pea naʻa ne ʻomi ʻae tamapua ʻoe vao tapu mei he fale ʻo Sihova, kituaʻā ʻi Selūsalema, ki he vaitafe ko Kitiloni, pea naʻe tutu ia ʻi he vaitafe ko Kitiloni, pea momosi ia ke efu, ʻo ne lī ʻae efu ʻo ia ki he ngaahi tanuʻanga ʻoe fānau ʻae kakai.

And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder of it upon the graves of the children of the people.

7 Pea naʻa ne holoki hifo ʻae ngaahi fale ʻoe kakai angafakasotoma, ʻaia naʻe ofi ki he fale ʻo Sihova, ʻaia naʻe fai ai ʻe he kau fefine ʻenau lalanga ʻae ngaahi puipui ki he vaotapu.

And he broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

8 Pea naʻa ne fetuku ʻae kau taulaʻeiki kotoa pē mei he ngaahi kolo ʻo Siuta, pea ne ʻuliʻi ʻae ngaahi potu māʻolunga ʻaia naʻe tutu ai ʻe he kau taulaʻeiki ʻae meʻa namu kakala, meia Kepa ʻo aʻu ki Peasipa, pea naʻe holoki hifo ʻae ngaahi potu māʻolunga ʻoe ngaahi matapā ʻaia naʻe ʻi he hūʻanga ʻoe matapā ʻo Siosiua ko e pule ʻoe kolo, ʻaia naʻe ʻi he nima toʻohema ʻo ha taha ʻi he matapā ʻoe kolo.

And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burnt incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and broke down the high places of the gates that were in the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

9 Ka naʻe ʻikai ʻalu hake ʻae kau taulaʻeiki ʻae ngaahi potu māʻolunga ki he feilaulauʻanga ʻo Sihova ʻi Selūsalema, ka naʻa nau kai mā taʻefakalēvani fakataha mo honau ngaahi kāinga.

Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they ate of the unleavened bread among their brethren.

10 Pea naʻa ne fakaʻuliʻi ʻa Tofeti, ʻaia ʻoku ʻi he teleʻa ʻae fānau ʻo Henomi, ke ʻoua naʻa fakalaka atu ʻe ha tangata ʻa hono foha pe ko hono ʻofefine, ʻi he lotolotonga ʻoe afi kia Moleki.

And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

11 Pea naʻa ne ʻave fanga hoosi ʻaia naʻe foaki ʻe he ngaahi tuʻi ʻo Siuta ki he laʻā ʻi he hūʻanga ki he fale ʻo Sihova, ʻo ofi ki he potu fale ʻo Natani-meleki koe tauhi fale, ʻaia naʻe ʻi he veʻe kolo, pea naʻa ne tutu ʻae ngaahi saliote ʻoe laʻā ʻaki ʻae afi.

And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the common lands, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

12 Pea ko e ngaahi feilaulauʻanga, naʻe ʻi he tuʻa fale ʻo ʻAhasi ʻi ʻolunga, ʻaia naʻe ngaohi ʻe he ngaahi tuʻi ʻo Siuta, mo e ngaahi feilaulauʻanga naʻe ngaohi ʻe Manase ʻi he lotoʻā ʻe ua ʻoe fale ʻo Sihova, naʻe holoki hifo ia ʻe he tuʻi, pea fesiʻi hifo ia mei ai, pea naʻe lilingi ʻae efuefu ʻo ia ki he vaitafe ko Kitiloni.

And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and broke them down from there, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

13 Mo e ngaahi potu māʻolunga naʻe ʻi he ʻao ʻo Selusalema, ʻaia naʻe ʻi he nima toʻomataʻu ʻoe moʻunga ʻoe popo, ʻaia naʻe langa ʻe Solomone ko e tuʻi ʻo ʻIsileli kia ʻAsitelote ko e meʻa fakalielia ʻae kakai Saitoni, pea kia Kimosi koe meʻa fakalielia ʻae kakai Moape, pea kia Milikomi koe meʻa fakalielia ʻae fanau ʻa ʻAmoni, naʻe maumauʻi ʻakinautolu ʻe he tuʻi.

And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

14 Pea naʻe fesifesiʻi ʻe ia ʻae ngaahi tamapua, pea ne tā hifo ʻae ngaahi vao tapu, pea naʻe fakapito honau ngaahi potu ʻi he hui ʻoe kau tangata.

And he broke in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Pea ko e feilaulauʻanga foki naʻe ʻi Peteli mo e potu māʻolunga naʻe ngaohi ʻe Selopoami ko e foha ʻo Nipati, ʻaia naʻa ne fakaangahalaʻi ʻa ʻIsileli, ko e feilaulauʻanga mo e potu māʻolunga fakatouʻosi, naʻa ne holoki hifo, pea ne tutu ʻae potu māʻolunga, pea naʻe malakaki ia ke fakaikiiki mo efu pe, pea naʻe tutu mo e vao tapu.

Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he broke down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

16 Pea ʻi he tafoki ia ʻe Siosaia, naʻa ne sio ki he ngaahi tanuʻanga ʻaia naʻe ʻi he moʻunga, pea naʻa ne fekau atu ʻo hikitanga ʻae ngaahi hui mei he ngaahi tanuʻanga, pea ne tutu ia ki he feilaulauʻanga, pea naʻe maumau ia, ʻo fakatatau ki he folofola ʻa Sihova ʻaia naʻe kalangaekina ʻe he tangata ʻae ʻOtua, ʻaia naʻa ne kalangaʻaki ʻae ngaahi lea ni.

And as Josiah turned himself, he espied the sepulchres that were there on the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17 Pea naʻe toki pehē ʻe ia, “Ko e hā ʻae tohi fakaʻilonga ko ʻena ʻoku ou sio ki ai?” Pea naʻe tala kiate ia ʻe he kau tangata ʻoe kolo, “Ko e tanuʻanga ia ʻoe tangata ʻae ʻOtua, ʻaia naʻe haʻu mei Siuta, ʻo ne kalangaekina ʻae ngaahi meʻa ni ʻaia kuo ke fai ki he feilaulauʻanga ʻi Peteli.”

Then he said, What title is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

18 Pea naʻe pehē ʻe ia, “Tuku ai pe ia ke ʻoua naʻa hiki hono hui ʻe ha tokotaha.” Ko ia naʻa nau tuku ai pe hono ngaahi hui, fakataha mo e hui ʻoe palōfita naʻe haʻu mei Samēlia.

And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

19 Pea ko e ngaahi fale foki ʻoe ngaahi potu māʻolunga ʻi he ngaahi kolo ʻo Samēlia, ʻaia naʻe ngaohi ʻe he ngaahi tuʻi ʻo ʻIsileli ke fakatupu ʻae houhau ʻa Sihova, naʻe hiki ʻo ʻave ia ʻe Siosaia, pea naʻe fai ʻe ia ki ai ʻo hangē ko ia kotoa pē naʻa ne fai ʻi Peteli.

And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the LORD to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

20 Pea naʻa ne tāmateʻi ʻae kau taula kotoa pē naʻe nofo ʻi he ngaahi potu māʻolunga, ʻi he funga ʻoe ngaahi feilaulauʻanga, pea naʻa ne tutu ʻae hui ʻoe kakai ʻi ai, pea toe ʻalu ia ki Selūsalema.

And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burnt men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.

21 Pea naʻe fekau ʻe he tuʻi ki he kakai kotoa pē, ʻo pehē, “Mou fai ʻae kātoanga ʻoe Lakaatu kia Sihova ko homou ʻOtua, ʻo hangē ko ia kuo tohi ʻi he tohi ʻoe fuakava ni.

And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover to the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

22 Ko e moʻoni naʻe ʻikai fai ha kātoanga ʻoe Lakaatu ke hangē ko ia talu mei he ngaahi ʻaho ʻoe kau fakamaau naʻe fakamaauʻi ʻa ʻIsileli, pe ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ʻoe ngaahi tuʻi ʻo ʻIsileli, pe ko e ngaahi tuʻi ʻo Siuta;

Surely there was not held such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

23 Ka ʻi hono hongofulu ma valu taʻu ʻoe tuʻi ko Siosaia, ʻaia naʻe fai ai ʻae kātoanga ni ʻoe Lakaatu kia Sihova ʻi Selūsalema.”

But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, when this passover was held to the LORD in Jerusalem.

24 Pea naʻe ʻave foki ʻe Siosaia ʻakinautolu naʻe kau mo e kau laumālie kovi, mo e kau kikite loi, mo e ngaahi tamapua, mo e ngaahi ʻotua loi, mo e ngaahi meʻa kovi kotoa pē naʻe ʻiloʻi ʻi he fonua ʻo Siuta pea ʻi Selūsalema, koeʻuhi ke ne fai ki he ngaahi lea ʻae fono ʻaia naʻe tohi ʻi he tohi naʻe ʻilo ʻe Hilikia ko e taulaʻeiki ʻi he fale ʻo Sihova.

Moreover the mediums, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

25 Pea naʻe ʻikai ha tuʻi ʻi muʻa ke hangē ko ia, ʻaia naʻe tafoki kia Sihova ʻaki hono loto kotoa, pea mo hono laumālie kātoa, pea mo ʻene mālohi kātoa, ʻo hangē ko e fono kotoa pē ʻa Mōsese; pea naʻe ʻikai tupu ha tokotaha ki mui ʻo hangē ko ia.

And like him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.

26 Ka neongo ia naʻe ʻikai tafoki ʻa Sihova mei he kakaha ʻo hono houhau ʻaia naʻe tupu ai hono houhau ki Siuta, ko e meʻa ʻi he ngaahi ʻahiʻahi kovi ʻa Manase ʻaia naʻa ne fakahouhau ʻaki ia.

However the LORD turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.

27 Pea naʻe pehē ʻe Sihova, “Te u hiki ʻa Siuta foki ke mamaʻo mei hoku ʻao, ʻo hangē ko ʻeku hiki ʻa ʻIsileli, pea te u liʻaki ʻae kolo ni ko Selūsalema ʻaia kuo u fili, pea mo e fale ʻaia naʻaku pehē ki ai, ʻE ʻi ai ʻa hoku huafa.”

And the LORD said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.

28 Pea ko hono toe ʻoe ngaahi ngāue ʻa Siosaia, mo ia kotoa pē naʻe fai ʻe ia, ʻikai kuo tohi ia ʻi he tohi fakamatala ki he ngaahi tuʻi ʻo Siuta?

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

29 ʻI hono ngaahi ʻaho ʻoʻona, naʻe ʻalu hake ai ʻa Felo Niko ko e tuʻi ʻo ʻIsipite ki he vaitafe ko ʻIufaletesi ke tauʻi ʻae tuʻi ʻo ʻAsilia: pea naʻe ʻalu atu ʻa Siosaia ke tauʻi ia: pea naʻe tāmateʻi ia ʻi Mekito, ʻi heʻene mamata kiate ia.

In his days Pharaohnechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

30 Pea naʻe ʻave ia, ka kuo pekia, ʻe heʻene kau tamaioʻeiki ʻi he saliote mei Mekito ki Selūsalema, pea naʻe tanu ia ʻi he tanuʻanga ʻoʻona. Pea naʻe ʻave ʻe he kakai ʻoe fonua ʻa Sihoaasi ko e foha ʻo Siosaia, ʻonau pani ia ʻaki ʻae lolo mo fakanofo ia ke tuʻi ko e fetongi ʻo ʻene tamai.

And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.

31 Naʻe uofulu ma tolu ʻae taʻu ʻo Sihoaasi ʻi heʻene kamata pule; pea naʻe pule ia ʻi he māhina ʻe tolu ʻi Selūsalema. Pea ko e hingoa ʻo ʻene faʻē ko Hamutali, ko e ʻofefine ʻo Selemaia ʻo Lipina.

Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 Pea naʻe fai kovi ʻe ia ʻi he ʻao ʻo Sihova, ʻo fakatatau ki he meʻa kotoa pē naʻe fai ʻe heʻene ngaahi tamai.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.

33 Pea naʻe haʻi pōpula ia ʻe Felo Niko ʻi Lipila ʻi he fonua ko Hemati koeʻuhi ke ʻoua naʻa ne tuʻi ʻi Selūsalema; ʻo ne fakamoʻua ʻae fonua ki he tukuhau, ko e taleniti siliva ʻe teau, mo e taleniti koula ʻe taha.

And Pharaohnechoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and subjected the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

34 Pea naʻe ngaohi ʻe Felo Niko ʻa Eliakimi ko e foha ʻo Siosaia ke tuʻi ia ko e fetongi ʻo ʻene tamai ko Siosaia, pea naʻa ne liliu hono hingoa ke [ui ia ]ko Sihoiakimi, ʻo ne ʻave ʻa Sihoaasi: pea naʻe hoko ia ki ʻIsipite pea pekia ia ʻi ai.

And Pharaohnechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the stead of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.

35 Pea naʻe foaki ʻe Sihoiakimi ʻae siliva mo e koula kia Felo; ka naʻa ne fai fono ki he fonua ke tuku mai ʻae ngaahi paʻanga ʻo fakatatau ki he fekau ʻa Felo: naʻa ne pule ke ʻomi ʻae siliva mo e koula mei he kakai ʻoe fonua ko e ʻomi taki taha ʻo tatau mo ia naʻe lau kiate ia, ke ʻatu ia kia Felo Niko.

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, from every one according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaohnechoh.

36 Naʻe uofulu ma nima taʻu ʻae motuʻa ʻo Sihoiakimi ʻi heʻene kamata ʻene pule: pea naʻe pule ia ʻi he taʻu ʻe hongofulu ma taha ʻi Selūsalema. Pea ko e hingoa ʻo ʻene faʻē ko Sipiuta, ko e ʻofefine ʻo Pitaia mei Luma.

Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

37 Pea naʻe fai ʻe ia ʻae kovi ʻi he ʻao ʻo Sihova, ʻo hangē ko ia naʻe fai ʻe heʻene ngaahi tamai kotoa pē.

And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.