역대하 36
Korean Living Bible
유다의 17대 왕 여호아하스
36 유다 백성들은 예루살렘에서 요시야의 아들 여호아하스를 왕으로 삼 았다.
2 그는 23세에 왕위에 올라 예루살렘에서 석 달을 통치하였다.
3 그때 이집트의 느고왕이 그의 왕위를 폐하고 유다에 은 [a]3,400킬로그램과 금 34킬로그램을 매년 조공으로 바치게 하였다.
4 그리고 느고왕은 여호아하스의 형제 엘리아김을 유다 왕으로 삼고 그의 이름을 여호야김으로 고쳤다. 그리고 그의 형제 여호아하스는 이집트로 잡아갔다.
유다의 18대 왕 여호야김
5 여호야김은 25세에 왕위에 올라 예루살렘에서 11년을 통치하였으며 그는 그의 하나님 여호와께서 보시기에 악을 행하였다.
6 이때 바빌로니아의 느부갓네살왕이 유다를 침략하고 여호야김을 생포하여 그를 쇠사슬로 묶어 바빌로니아로 끌고 갔다.
7 그는 또 성전 비품들도 가져가서 바빌론에 있는 자기 신전에 두었다.
8 그 밖에 여호야김이 행한 모든 일과 그의 악한 행위는 이스라엘과 유다 왕들의 역사책에 기록되어 있다. 그리고 그의 아들 여호야긴이 왕위를 계승하였다.
유다의 19대 왕 여호야긴
9 여호야긴은 [b]18세에 왕위에 올라 예루살렘에서 석 달 열흘을 통치하였으며 그는 여호와께서 보시기에 악을 행하였다.
10 이듬해 봄에 느부갓네살은 여호야긴을 바빌로니아로 잡아가고 성전의 소중한 비품들도 함께 가져갔다. 그런 다음 그는 여호야긴의 삼촌 시드기야를 유다와 예루살렘의 왕으로 삼았다.
유다의 마지막 왕 (20대) 시드기야
11 시드기야는 21세에 왕위에 올라 예루살렘에서 11년을 통치하였다.
12 그는 그의 하나님 여호와께서 보시기에 악을 행하고 예언자 예레미야가 여호와의 말씀을 일러 주어도 그 말을 겸손하게 듣지 않았다.
13 그는 또 하나님의 이름으로 자기에게 충성할 것을 맹세하라고 강요한 느부갓네살왕을 반역하였다. 그리고 그는 끝까지 고집을 피워 회개하지 않고 이스라엘의 하나님 여호와께 돌아오지 않았다.
14 이뿐 아니라 유다의 지도자들과 제사장들과 백성들도 그 주변 나라들의 악한 행위를 본받아 이방 우상들을 섬기고 여호와께서 거룩하게 하신 예루살렘 성전을 더럽혔다.
예루살렘 함락
15 그들 조상의 하나님 여호와께서는 그의 백성과 성전을 아끼셨기 때문에 그의 사자들을 보내 그들에게 계속 경고하셨다.
16 그러나 그들은 하나님의 사자들을 조롱하고 그의 말씀을 멸시하며 그의 예언자들을 비웃었다. 그래서 결국 그들은 여호와의 노여움을 사서 구제받을 길이 없게 되었다.
17 그러자 여호와께서는 [c]바빌로니아 왕을 보내 그들을 치게 하셨는데 그는 유다의 젊은이들을 무참하게 학살하며 심지어 성전에까지 들어가서 그들을 죽이고 젊은 남녀는 물론 백발 노인들까지도 불쌍히 여기지 않고 닥치는 대로 마구 죽였다. 이와 같이 하나님은 그들을 모조리 느부갓네살왕의 손에 넘겨 주셨다.
18 그리고 그는 성전 비품과 귀중품 그리고 왕과 그 신하들의 보물도 다 바빌론으로 가져갔다.
19 그런 다음 그는 성전에 불을 지르고 예루살렘 성벽을 헐며 모든 왕궁을 불사르고 모든 소중한 그릇들을 깨뜨려 버렸다.
20 또 그는 살아 남은 자들을 모조리 바빌로니아로 잡아갔으며 그들은 거기서 노예가 되어 페르시아 제국이 바빌로니아를 정복할 때까지 그 곳 왕과 그 자손들을 섬겼다.
21 그래서 그 땅은 여호와께서 예언자 예레미야를 통해 말씀하신 대로 70년 동안 황폐하여 7년마다 한 해씩 땅을 묵히는 안식년과 마찬가지로 안식을 누리게 되었다.
키루스황제의 조서
22 페르시아의 키루스황제 원년에 여호와께서는 예레미야를 통해 말씀하신 것을 이루시려고 키루스황제의 마음을 감동시키셔서 다음과 같은 조서를 내려 온 땅에 공포하도록 하였다.
23 “페르시아의 키루스황제가 말한다. 하늘의 신 여호와께서 세상 모든 나라를 나에게 주셨고 또 유다의 예루살렘에 성전을 건축하라고 나에게 지시하셨다. 그러므로 너희 중 그의 백성들은 누구든지 다 [d]이스라엘 땅으로 돌아가거라. 너희 하나님 여호와께서 너희와 함께하시기를 원한다.”
2 Chronicles 36
Common English Bible
Jehoahaz rules
36 The people of the land took Jehoahaz, Josiah’s son, and made him the next king in Jerusalem. 2 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he ruled for three months in Jerusalem. 3 The king of Egypt removed him from office in Jerusalem. The Egyptian king imposed a fine on the land totaling one hundred kikkars of silver and one kikkar of gold. 4 Then the king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king of Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took his brother Jehoahaz prisoner and carried him off to Egypt.
Jehoiakim rules
5 Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes. 6 Babylon’s King Nebuchadnezzar attacked him, bound him with bronze chains, and took him to Babylon. 7 Nebuchadnezzar also took some equipment from the Lord’s temple to Babylon and placed them in his own temple there. 8 The rest of Jehoiakim’s deeds, including his detestable practices and all that was charged against him, are written in the official records of Israel’s and Judah’s kings. His son Jehoiachin succeeded him as king.
Jehoiachin rules
9 Jehoiachin was 18[a] years old when he became king, and he ruled for three months[b] in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the Lord’s eyes. 10 In the springtime, King Nebuchadnezzar sent for him to be brought to Babylon, along with valuable equipment from the Lord’s temple. Then he made Zedekiah his uncle the next king of Judah and Jerusalem.
Zedekiah rules
11 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem. 12 He did what was evil in the Lord his God’s eyes and didn’t submit before the prophet Jeremiah, who spoke for the Lord. 13 Moreover, he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, despite the solemn pledge Nebuchadnezzar had forced him to swear in God’s name. He became stubborn and refused to turn back to the Lord, Israel’s God. 14 All the leaders of the priests and the people also grew increasingly unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations. They polluted the Lord’s temple that God had dedicated in Jerusalem. 15 Time and time again, the Lord, the God of their ancestors, sent word to them through his messengers because he had compassion on his people and his dwelling. 16 But they made fun of God’s messengers, treating God’s words with contempt and ridiculing God’s prophets to such an extent that there was no hope of warding off the Lord’s rising anger against his people.
Jerusalem destroyed
17 So God brought the Babylonian[c] king against them. The king killed their young men with the sword in their temple’s sanctuary, and showed no pity for young men or for virgins, for the old or for the feeble. God handed all of them over to him. 18 Then the king hauled everything off to Babylon, every item from God’s temple, both large and small, including the treasures of the Lord’s temple and those of the king and his officials. 19 Next the Babylonians burned God’s temple down, demolished the walls of Jerusalem, and set fire to all its palaces, destroying everything of value. 20 Finally, he exiled to Babylon anyone who survived the killing so that they could be his slaves and the slaves of his children until Persia came to power. 21 This is how the Lord’s word spoken by Jeremiah was carried out. The land finally enjoyed its sabbath rest. For as long as it lay empty, it rested, until seventy years were completed.
Cyrus’ decree
22 In the first year of Persia’s King Cyrus, to carry out the Lord’s promise spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord moved Persia’s King Cyrus to issue the following proclamation throughout his kingdom, along with a written decree:
23 This is what Persia’s King Cyrus says: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the earth’s kingdoms and has instructed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you belong to God’s people, let them go up, and may the Lord their God be with them!
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 36:9 LXX, 2 Kgs 24:8; MT eight
- 2 Chronicles 36:9 2 Kgs 24:8; MT adds and ten days.
- 2 Chronicles 36:17 Heb Chaldean
2 Chronicles 36
King James Version
36 Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.
2 Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
3 And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
4 And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
5 Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.
6 Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
7 Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
8 Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
10 And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
11 Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
12 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord.
13 And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.
14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
15 And the Lord God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:
16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
17 Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.
18 And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
20 And them that had escaped from the sword carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:
21 To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
22 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the Lord God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The Lord his God be with him, and let him go up.
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