2 Crônicas 29
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Ezequias, rei de Judá
29 Ezequias tinha vinte e cinco anos quando começou a reinar, e governou vinte e nove anos em Jerusalém. O nome da sua mãe era Abias, filha de Zacarias. 2 Ezequias fez o que era reto diante do SENHOR, assim como fez seu antepassado Davi.
3 No primeiro mês do primeiro ano do seu reinado, Ezequias mandou abrir as portas do templo do SENHOR e as reparou. 4 Fez vir os sacerdotes e os levitas e os reuniu na praça oriental do templo. 5 Disse a eles:
—Escutem, levitas! Purifiquem-se agora e purifiquem o templo do SENHOR, Deus dos seus antepassados. Tirem deste santo templo tudo o que seja impuro, 6 porque os nossos antepassados se rebelaram e fizeram o que era mau perante o SENHOR, nosso Deus. Deram as costas ao SENHOR e desprezaram o lugar onde ele mora. 7 Fecharam as portas do pórtico, apagaram as lâmpadas, deixaram de queimar incenso e não ofereceram mais os sacrifícios que devem ser queimados completamente no santo templo do Deus de Israel.
8 —Por causa disso o SENHOR se irritou com Judá e com Jerusalém, e permitiu que fossem feitos motivo de espanto, desolação e desprezo, assim como vocês podem comprovar com seus próprios olhos. 9 Nossos antepassados caíram mortos à espada e nossos filhos, filhas e esposas foram levados prisioneiros. 10 Portanto eu tenho tomado a decisão de fazer uma aliança com o SENHOR, Deus de Israel, para que cesse de se irritar conosco. 11 Então, meus filhos, não é o momento para que sejam negligentes, porque o SENHOR tem escolhido vocês para servi-lo, para que sejam seus servos e lhe queimem incenso.
12 Estes são os levitas que estiveram dispostos a trabalhar imediatamente:
Dos descendentes de Coate: Maate, filho de Amasai, e Joel, filho de Azarias.
Dos descendentes de Merari: Quisom, filho de Obadias, e Azarias, filho de Jealelel.
Dos descendentes de Gérson: Joá, filho de Zima, e Éden, filho de Joá.
13 Dos descendentes de Elizafã: Sinri e Jeuel.
Dos descendentes de Asafe: Zacarias e Matanias.
14 Dos descendentes de Hemã: Jeuel e Simei.
Dos descendentes de Jedutum: Semaías e Uziel.
15 Eles reuniram seus parentes, se purificaram e entraram no templo do SENHOR para purificá-lo, assim como o rei havia mandado conforme as palavras do SENHOR. 16 Depois os sacerdotes entraram no interior do templo do SENHOR para purificá-lo. Tiraram do átrio do templo do SENHOR todas as coisas impuras que encontraram. Os levitas jogaram tudo isso no ribeiro de Cedrom. 17 Começaram a purificar o templo no primeiro dia do primeiro mês, e por volta do oitavo dia do mês já tinham chegado ao pórtico do templo do SENHOR. Demoraram mais oito dias para purificar o resto do templo do SENHOR e por volta do dia dezesseis do primeiro mês já haviam terminado. 18 Depois foram e se apresentaram perante o rei Ezequias e disseram:
—Já purificamos todo o templo do SENHOR, até o altar dos sacrifícios que devem ser queimados completamente e todos seus utensílios; também a mesa onde se colocam as fileiras do pão consagrado, com todos seus utensílios. 19 Da mesma forma resgatamos e purificamos todos os utensílios que, por causa de sua infidelidade, o rei Acaz havia rejeitado durante seu reinado. Agora estão perante o altar do Senhor.
20 Ezequias levantou-se bem cedo, reuniu os líderes da cidade e foi ao templo do SENHOR. 21 Levaram sete bois, sete carneiros, sete cordeiros e sete cabritos como sacrifício pelo pecado em favor do reino, do templo e de Judá. O rei ordenou aos sacerdotes descendentes de Arão que os oferecessem no altar do SENHOR como sacrifício que deve ser queimado completamente. 22 Eles mataram os bois, recolheram o sangue e o jogaram sobre o altar. Depois sacrificaram os carneiros e os cordeiros e jogaram o sangue deles sobre o altar. 23 Tiraram os cabritos para o sacrifício da purificação perante o rei e a congregação, e colocaram as mãos sobre a cabeça dos animais e as empurraram para baixo. 24 Em seguida os sacerdotes mataram os cabritos e derramaram o sangue sobre o altar como sacrifício pelo pecado de todo Israel. Fizeram isto porque o rei tinha ordenado que tanto o sacrifício que deve ser queimado completamente como o sacrifício pelo pecado fossem oferecidos pelo perdão dos pecados de todo Israel.
25 Ezequias restabeleceu novamente no templo do SENHOR os levitas que tocavam címbalos, harpas e liras, assim como havia mandado Davi, o profeta Natã e o vidente Gade. Essa ordem o SENHOR havia dado por intermédio de seus profetas. 26 Então os levitas tomaram seus lugares com os instrumentos de Davi, e os sacerdotes tocaram as trombetas. 27 Depois Ezequias deu a ordem para oferecerem no altar o sacrifício que deve ser queimado completamente. Nesse exato momento começaram a entoar cânticos em honra ao SENHOR, acompanhado pelo som das trombetas e dos instrumentos de Davi, rei de Israel. 28 Toda a congregação permaneceu adorando de joelhos enquanto os cantores cantavam e tocavam as trombetas; tudo isso durou até que se consumisse o sacrifício que deve ser queimado completamente. 29 Quando foi concluído o sacrifício, o rei e todos os que estavam com ele se ajoelharam para adorar a Deus. 30 O rei Ezequias e os líderes ordenaram aos levitas que cantassem louvores ao SENHOR de acordo com as palavras de Davi e Asafe o vidente. Louvaram com alegria, se inclinaram e se prostraram. 31 Depois o rei Ezequias disse:
—Agora que vocês têm se consagrado ao SENHOR, tragam ao altar sacrifícios e ofertas de ações de graça para o templo do Senhor.
Então a congregação trouxe sacrifícios e ofertas de ações de graça. Também os que queriam fazê-lo ofereceram sacrifícios que devem ser queimados completamente.
32 De tal maneira que a congregação ofereceu como sacrifícios que devem ser queimados completamente sete bois, cem carneiros e duzentos cordeiros. Tudo foi oferecido como sacrifício que deve ser queimado completamente ao SENHOR. 33 As ofertas consagradas foram de 600 bois e 3.000 ovelhas. 34 Mas como os sacerdotes eram poucos e não podiam tirar a pele de tantos animais, seus parentes os levitas tiveram que ajudá-los a terminar o trabalho até que os outros sacerdotes se purificassem, pois os levitas tinham se mostrado mais dispostos a purificar-se que os sacerdotes. 35 Então houve uma grande quantidade de sacrifícios que deviam ser queimados completamente, além da gordura das ofertas para festejar e das ofertas de vinho.
Foi assim que se restabeleceu o culto no templo do SENHOR. 36 Ezequias e todo Israel se alegraram porque Deus ordenou ao povo que fizessem tudo depressa.
2 Chronicles 29
New English Translation
Hezekiah Consecrates the Temple
29 Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother[a] was Abijah,[b] the daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his ancestor David had done.[c]
3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them. 4 He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side. 5 He said to them: “Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the Lord God of your ancestors.[d] Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean. 6 For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of[e] the Lord our God and abandoned him. They turned away[f] from the Lord’s dwelling place and rejected him.[g] 7 They closed the doors of the temple porch and put out the lamps; they did not offer incense or burnt sacrifices in the sanctuary of the God of Israel. 8 The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn,[h] as you can see with your own eyes. 9 Look, our fathers died violently[i] and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off[j] because of this. 10 Now I intend[k] to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.[l] 11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him,[m] to be his ministers,[n] and offer sacrifices.”[o]
12 The following Levites prepared to carry out the king’s orders:[p]
From the Kohathites: Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah;
from the Merarites: Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel;
from the Gershonites: Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;
13 from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel;
from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 from the descendants of Heman: Jehiel and Shimei;
from the descendants of Jeduthun: Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word[q] of the Lord. 16 The priests then entered the Lord’s temple to purify it; they brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple every ceremonially unclean thing they discovered inside.[r] The Levites took them out to the Kidron Valley. 17 On the first day of the first month they began consecrating; by the eighth day of the month they reached the porch of the Lord’s temple.[s] For eight more days they consecrated the Lord’s temple. On the sixteenth day of the first month they were finished. 18 They went to King Hezekiah and said: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, including the altar of burnt sacrifice and all its equipment, and the table for the Bread of the Presence and all its equipment. 19 We have prepared and consecrated all the items that King Ahaz removed during his reign when he acted unfaithfully. They are in front of the altar of the Lord.”
20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah assembled the city officials and went up to the Lord’s temple. 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah.[t] The king[u] told the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer burnt sacrifices on the altar of the Lord. 22 They slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; next they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar. 23 Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them. 24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed[v] that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.
25 Hezekiah[w] stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments just as David, Gad the king’s prophet,[x] and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.) 26 The Levites had[y] David’s musical instruments and the priests had trumpets. 27 Hezekiah ordered the burnt sacrifice to be offered on the altar. As they began to offer the sacrifice, they also began to sing to the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets and the musical instruments of King David of Israel. 28 The entire assembly worshiped, as the singers sang and the trumpeters played. They continued until the burnt sacrifice was completed.
29 When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped. 30 King Hezekiah and the officials told the Levites to praise the Lord, using the psalms[z] of David and Asaph the prophet.[aa] So they joyfully offered praise and bowed down and worshiped. 31 Hezekiah said, “Now you have consecrated yourselves[ab] to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings[ac] to the Lord’s temple.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and whoever desired to do so[ad] brought burnt sacrifices.
32 The assembly brought a total of 70 bulls, 100 rams, and 200 lambs as burnt sacrifices to the Lord,[ae] 33 and 600 bulls and 3,000 sheep[af] were consecrated. 34 But there were not enough priests to skin all the animals,[ag] so their brothers, the Levites, helped them until the work was finished and the priests could consecrate themselves. (The Levites had been more conscientious about consecrating themselves than the priests.)[ah] 35 There was a large number of burnt sacrifices, as well as fat from the peace offerings and drink offerings that accompanied the burnt sacrifices. So the service of the Lord’s temple was reinstituted.[ai] 36 Hezekiah and all the people were happy about what God had done[aj] for them,[ak] for it had been done quickly.[al]
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 tn Heb “the name of his mother.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 tn The parallel passage in 2 Kgs 18:2 has “Abi.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:2 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which David his father had done.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:5 tn Heb “fathers.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 tn Heb “turned their faces.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 tn Heb “and turned the back.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 tn Heb “and he made them [an object] of dread and devastation and hissing.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:9 tn Heb “fell by the sword.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:9 tn Heb “are in captivity.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:10 tn Heb “now it is with my heart.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:10 tn Heb “so that the rage of his anger might turn from us.” The jussive with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the preceding statement of intention.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 tn That is, to conduct the religious rituals directed to the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 tn That is, to be his ministers for the nation.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 tn Heb “ones who cause [sacrifices] to go up in smoke.” The Hiphil form of קָטַר (qatar) can refer specifically to offering incense (e.g. 2 Chr 26:19; 32:12), but it may also be a general word for making sacrifices (e.g. 1 Chr 6:49). If it refers to burning incense, then the altar of incense in the Holy place of the tabernacle may be in view. Otherwise it is more general (they sacrifice animals later in this chapter, 2 Chr 29:21-24) and includes making sacrifices as well as offering incense.
- 2 Chronicles 29:12 tn Heb “and the Levites arose.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:15 tn Heb “words” (plural).
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 tn Heb “in the temple of the Lord.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:17 tn Heb “porch of the Lord.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 sn Perhaps these terms refer metonymically to the royal court, the priests and Levites, and the people, respectively.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 tn Heb “said.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Hezekiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 tn Or “seer.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 tn Heb “stood with” (i.e., stood holding).
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 tn Heb “with the words.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 tn Or “seer.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 tn Heb “filled your hand.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 tn Or “tokens of thanks.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 tn Heb “and all who were willing of heart.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:32 tn Heb “and the number of burnt sacrifices which the assembly brought was seventy bulls, one hundred rams, two hundred lambs; for a burnt sacrifice to the Lord were all these.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:33 tn The Hebrew term צֹאן (tsoʾn) denotes smaller livestock in general; depending on context it can refer to sheep only or goats only, but there is nothing in the immediate context here to specify one or the other.
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 tn Heb “the burnt sacrifices.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:34 tn Heb “for the Levites were more pure of heart to consecrate themselves than the priests.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:35 tn Or “established.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 tn Heb “prepared.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 tn Heb “the people.” The pronoun “them” has been used here for stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy.
- 2 Chronicles 29:36 tn Heb “for quickly was the matter.”
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