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요시야의 개혁

(대하 34:29-33)

23 왕은 유다와 예루살렘의 모든 장로를 불러 모았다. 그는 유다의 모든 백성과 예루살렘의 모든 주민, 제사장들과 예언자들, 곧 가장 낮은 사람으로부터 가장 높은 사람에 이르기까지 모든 백성과 함께 주의 성전으로 올라갔다. 그는 주의 성전에서 발견된 ‘계약의 책’에 있는 모든 말씀을 읽어 그들에게 들려주었다.

왕은 기둥 곁 주님 앞에서 그 계약을 새로이 맺었다. 곧 그의 마음과 영혼을 다하여 그분의 명령과 규정과 법규를 지켜 주를 따를 것과 그 책에 기록된 계약의 말씀들을 지키겠다는 것을 맹세하였다. 그런 다음 모든 백성도 그 계약을 지키기로 맹세하였다.

(대하 34:3-7)

왕은 대제사장 힐기야와 그 밑에 있는 제사장들과 성전 문지기들에게 명하여, 바알과 아세라와 하늘의 별들을 섬기는 데 쓰려고 만든 모든 기구를 주의 성전 밖으로 내가게 하였다. 그는 그것들을 예루살렘 바깥 기드론 골짜기에 있는 들판에서 불태우고 그 재를 베델로 가져갔다.

그는 또 유다의 왕들이 유다의 성읍들과 예루살렘 둘레에 있는 산당에서 분향하려고 뽑아 세운 우상을 섬기는 제사장들을 내쫓았다. 그들은 바알, 해와 달, 하늘의 별자리들과 별들에게 분향하는 자들이었다.

그는 아세라 장대를 주의 성전에서 끌어내어 예루살렘 바깥 기드론 골짜기에서 불태우고 그것을 가루로 만들어 공동묘지에 뿌렸다.

또 주의 성전 옆에 있던 남창들의 집을 허물어 버렸다. 그 집은 여인들이 아세라 여신을 위해 겉옷을 짜는 곳이기도 하였다.

요시야는 유다의 성읍에서 모든 제사장을 철수시켜 예루살렘으로 불러들이고, 게바에서 브엘세바에 이르기까지 그들이 분향하던 산당들을 모두 부정한 곳으로 만들었다. 그리고 성문으로 들어가면서 왼쪽으로 성주의 이름을 따 ‘여호수아의 문’이라 불리는 문이 있었는데, 그 문어귀에 있던 신당[a]을 헐어버렸다. 산당의 제사장들은 예루살렘에 있는 주의 제단에서 섬기지는 못하였으나, 다른 제사장들과 함께 누룩이 들지 않는 빵을 먹을 수는 있었다.

10 그는 벤힌놈 골짜기에 있는 도벳을 부정한 곳으로 만들어, 어느 누구도 아들이나 딸을 불에 태워 몰록에게 바치지 못하게 하였다. 11 그는 또 주의 성전 어귀 나단멜렉이라는 내시의 방 옆의 뜰에 서 있던 말 동상들을 없애 버렸다. 그것들은 유다 왕들이 태양신에게 바친 것이었다. 그런 다음 요시야는 태양신에게 바친 전차들을 불태워 버렸다.

12 그는 유다 왕들이 아하스의 다락방 지붕 위에 만들어 놓은 제단들과 므낫세가 주의 성전에 있는 두 뜰에 세워 놓은 제단들을 모두 허물었다. 그는 그것들을 그곳에서 끌어내어 산산조각 낸 다음 그 조각들을 기드론 골짜기에 던져 버렸다.

13 왕은 또한 예루살렘 동쪽, 곧 ‘멸망의 산’ 남쪽에 있던 산당들을 부정한 곳으로 만들었다. 그 산당들은 이스라엘 왕 솔로몬이 시돈 사람의 천박한 여신 아스다롯과 모압 사람의 천박한 신 그모스와 암몬 사람의 혐오스러운 신 밀곰을 위해 만든 것이었다. 14 요시야는 돌기둥[b]을 깨뜨리고 아세라 장대를 잘라 내리고, 그것들이 있던 곳을 사람의 뼈로 덮었다[c].

15 또 왕은 이스라엘을 죄 짓게 한 느밧의 아들 여로보암[d]이 베델에 만든 제단과 산당까지 허물었다. 그는 산당을 불태워 가루로 만들고 아세라 장대도 불태웠다. 16 또 요시야가 둘레를 살펴보다가 산 위에 무덤들이 있는 것을 보았다. 그는 그 무덤 속에 있는 뼈들을 꺼내다가 제단 위에 놓고 불태우게 하여 그 제단을 부정하게 만들었다. 이것은 하나님의 사람이 선포한 주의 말씀대로 된 것이다[e].

일찍이 하나님의 사람[f]이 여로보암이 제단 옆에 서 있을 때에 이런 일들이 있을 것이라고 선포한 적이 있었다. 요시아는 몸을 돌려 무덤 하나가 더 있는 것을 보았다. 그것은 이 모든 일을 예언한 하나님의 사람의 무덤이었다.[g] 17 왕이 물었다. “저기 보이는 저 비석은 무엇이냐?”

그 성읍의 사람들이 말하였다. “그것은 유다에서 온 어떤 하나님의 사람의 무덤에 세운 것입니다. 그는 일찍이 베델의 제단을 저주하여, 임금님께서 하신 바로 이런 일들이 있을 것을 예언하였습니다.”

18 요시야가 말하였다. “그 무덤은 그대로 두어라. 아무도 그의 뼈에 손을 대지 못하게 하여라.” 그리하여 그들은 그의 뼈와 사마리아에서 온 예언자의 뼈는 그대로 두었다.

19 이스라엘 왕들은 사마리아 지방의 성읍마다 산당을 세워 주의 화를 돋우었다. 요시야는 베델에서 한 것과 꼭 같이 그 산당들도 모두 없애 버리고 그곳을 부정하게 만들었다.

20 요시야는 그 모든 산당의 제사장들을 거기에 있는 제단들 위에서 죽이고 사람의 뼈를 그 제단들 위에서 불태웠다. 그런 다음 예루살렘으로 돌아왔다.

유다 백성들이 유월절을 지키다

(대하 35:1-19)

21 왕은 모든 백성에게 이러한 명령을 내렸다. “이 ‘계약의 책’에 쓰인 대로 주 너희 하나님을 위하여 유월절을 지키도록 하여라.”

22 사사들이 이스라엘을 다스리던 시대로부터 이스라엘의 왕들이나 유다의 왕들이 다스리던 시대에 이르기까지 이와 같은 유월절을 지킨 일이 없었다. 23 요시야 왕제십팔년에 이르러서야 비로소 예루살렘에서 주를 기리는 유월절을 지켰다.

24 요시야는 영매와 강신술사[h]와 집안의 수호신과 우상과 온갖 혐오스러운 것들을 유다와 예루살렘에서 싹 쓸어냈다. 그는 제사장 힐기야가 주의 성전에서 발견한 책에 쓰인 율법의 요구사항을 다 지키려고 이렇게 하였다.

25 요시야는 모세의 모든 율법에 따라 마음과 영혼을 다하여 주께 돌아왔다. 이렇게 한 왕은 요시야 이전에도 없었고 이후에도 없었다.

26 그러나 므낫세가 한 모든 일이 주의 화를 몹시 돋우었기 때문에 주께서는 유다를 향한 불 같은 화를 돌이키지 않으셨다. 27 그리하여 주께서 이렇게 말씀하셨다. “나는 이스라엘을 내 앞에서 쫓아낸 것처럼 유다도 쫓아낼 것이다. 또한 내가 택한 도성 예루살렘과 나의 이름을 두겠다고 말한 이 성전도 버리겠다.”

28 요시야가 다스리는 동안에 일어난 다른 일들과 그가 한 모든 일은 ‘유다 왕들의 역사’에 다 기록되어 있다.

요시야의 죽음

(대하 35:20–36:1)

29 요시야가 왕으로 있을 때에 이집트 왕 파라오 느고가 앗시리아 왕을 도우려고 유프라테스 강 쪽으로 올라왔다. 그때 요시야 왕이 그를 맞아 싸우려고 나갔다. 그러나 그는 느고와 싸우다가 므깃도에서 죽고 말았다. 30 요시야의 신하들이 그의 주검을 전차에 실어 므깃도에서 예루살렘으로 옮겨 와서 그의 무덤에 묻었다. 그 땅의 백성이 요시야의 아들 여호아하스를 데려다가 그에게 기름을 붓고 그의 아버지를 대신하여 왕으로 세웠다.

유다 왕 여호아하스

(대하 36:2-4)

31 여호아하스는 스물세 살에 왕이 되어 예루살렘에서 석 달 동안 다스렸다. 그의 어머니는 립나 출신인 예레미야의 딸 하무달이었다. 32 그는 자기 조상들이 한 것처럼 주께서 보시기에 악한 일을 하였다.

33 이집트 왕 파라오 느고가 그를 하맛 땅 리블라에 잡아 가두어 그가 예루살렘에서 다스리지 못하게 하였다. 파라오 느고는 유다에게 은 백 달란트[i]와 금 한 달란트[j]를 조공[k]으로 바치게 하였다.

34 파라오 느고는 요시야의 아들 엘리아김을 그의 아버지를 대신하여 왕으로 세우고 엘리아김의 이름을 여호야김으로 바꾸었다. 그러나 여호아하스는 이집트로 끌려가 그곳에서 죽었다.

유다 왕 여호야김

(대하 36:5-8)

35 여호야김은 파라오 느고가 요구한 은과 금을 바쳤다. 그는 그렇게 하기 위하여 그 땅의 모든 백성에게 세금을 지워야 했다. 그는 각 사람의 재산 정도에 따라 은과 금을 거두어들였다.

36 여호야김은 스물세 살에 왕이 되어 예루살렘에서 십일 년 동안 다스렸다. 그의 어머니는 루마 사람 브다야의 딸 스비다였다. 37 그는 자기 조상들처럼 주께서 보시기에 악한 일을 하였다.

Footnotes

  1. 23:8 신당 신령을 모신 집
  2. 23:14 돌기둥 바알이나 다른 가나안 사람들의 신을 상징하기 위해 세운 돌
  3. 23:14 그것들이…덮었다 그렇게 하면 그곳이 부정하게 된다. 부정한 곳은 예배를 드리는 곳이 될 수가 없게 된다.
  4. 23:15 이스라엘을…여로보암 왕상 12:26-30을 볼 것.
  5. 23:16 이것은…된 것이다 왕상 13:1-3을 볼 것.
  6. 23:16 하나님의 사람 예언자를 이르는 말
  7. 23:16 일찍이…무덤이었다 고대 그리스어역. 표준 히브리어 원문에는 없다.
  8. 23:24 강신술사 기도나 주문을 외어 신이 내려와 붙게 하는 사람
  9. 23:33 백 달란트 약 3.4톤
  10. 23:33 한 달란트 약 34킬로그램
  11. 23:33 조공 예전 왕조 시대에 약한 나라가 강한 나라에게 때마다 예물을 바치던 일

King Josiah’s Religious Reforms(A)

23 Then the king sent for all the respected leaders of Judah and Jerusalem to join him. The king, everyone in Judah, everyone living in Jerusalem, the priests, the prophets, and all the people (young and old) went to the Lord’s temple. Josiah read everything written in the Book of the Promise [a] found in the Lord’s temple so that they could hear it. The king stood beside the pillar and made a promise to the Lord that he would follow the Lord and obey his commands, instructions, and laws with all his heart and soul. He confirmed the terms of the promise written in this book. And all the people joined in the promise.

Then the king ordered the chief priest Hilkiah, the priests who served under Hilkiah, and the doorkeepers to take out of the Lord’s temple all the utensils that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the entire army of heaven. Josiah burned the utensils outside Jerusalem in an open field near the Kidron Brook. Then he carried their ashes to Bethel.

He got rid of the pagan priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to sacrifice at the illegal places of worship in the cities of Judah and all around Jerusalem. They had been sacrificing to Baal, the sun god, the moon god, the zodiac, and the entire army of heaven. He took the pole dedicated to the goddess Asherah from the temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to dust, and threw its ashes on the tombs of the common people. He tore down the houses of the male temple prostitutes who were in the Lord’s temple, where women did weaving for Asherah.

He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah from Geba to Beersheba and made the places where those priests sacrificed unclean.[b] He tore down the worship site at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the gate named after the mayor of the city. (The worship site was to the left of anyone going through the city gate.)

The priests of the illegal worship sites had never gone to the Lord’s altar in Jerusalem. Instead, they ate their unleavened bread among the other worshipers.

10 Josiah also made Topheth in the valley of Ben Hinnom unclean so that people would never again sacrifice their sons or daughters by burning them to the god Molech.

11 He removed the horses that Judah’s kings had dedicated to the sun god at the entrance of the Lord’s temple. They were in the temple courtyard near the room of the eunuch Nathan Melech. He also burned the chariots of the sun god, 12 the altars that Judah’s kings had made and placed on the roof of Ahaz’s upstairs room, and the altars Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. The king tore them down from there, crushed them, and dumped their rubble in the Kidron Valley.

13 The king made the illegal places of worship east of Jerusalem unclean. They were on the southern part of the Hill of Destruction. King Solomon of Israel had built them for Astarte (the disgusting goddess of the Sidonians), Chemosh (the disgusting god of Moab), and Milcom (the disgusting god of the Ammonites). 14 Josiah crushed the sacred stones, cut down the poles dedicated to Asherah, and filled their places with human bones. 15 He also tore down the altar at Bethel—the place of worship made by Jeroboam (Nebat’s son), who had made Israel sin. He tore down both the altar and the place of worship. They burned the worship site, crushing it to powder and burning the pole dedicated to Asherah.

16 When Josiah turned and saw the tombs on the hill there, he sent men to take the bones out of the tombs and burn them on the altar to make it unclean. This fulfilled the Lord’s word announced by the man of God. 17 Then he asked, “What is this monument that I see?”

The people of the city answered him, “It’s the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah to announce that you would do these things to the altar of Bethel.”

18 So Josiah said, “Let him rest. Don’t disturb his bones.” So they left his bones with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.

19 Josiah also got rid of all the temples at the illegal places of worship in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had built these places to make the Lord furious. He did to them everything that he had done to the worship places at Bethel. 20 He slaughtered all the priests of the illegal worship sites on their altars and then burned human bones on them. He went back to Jerusalem.

21 The king ordered all the people to celebrate the Passover for the Lord their God as it is written in this Book of the Promise. 22 The Passover had never been celebrated like this during the time of the judges who governed Israel or during the entire time of the kings of Israel and Judah. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, this Passover was celebrated in Jerusalem for the Lord.

24 Josiah also got rid of the mediums, psychics, family idols, other idols, and disgusting gods that could be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to confirm the words of the Teachings written in the book that the priest Hilkiah found in the Lord’s temple.

25 No king before Josiah had turned to the Lord with all his heart, soul, and strength, as directed in Moses’ Teachings. No other ⌞king⌟ was like Josiah.

26 But the Lord still didn’t turn his hot, burning anger from Judah. After all, Manasseh had done all these things to make him furious. 27 The Lord had said, “I will put Judah out of my sight as I put Israel out of my sight. I will reject Jerusalem, the city that I chose, and I will reject the temple where I said my name would be.”

28 Isn’t everything else about Josiah—everything he did—written in the official records of the kings of Judah?

29 In Josiah’s days Pharaoh Necoh (the king of Egypt) came to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to attack Necoh. When Pharaoh saw him at Megiddo, Pharaoh killed him. 30 His officers put his dead body in a chariot and brought it from Megiddo to Jerusalem. They buried Josiah in his tomb.

King Jehoahaz of Judah(B)

Then the people of the land took Josiah’s son Jehoahaz, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father. 31 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became king, and he was king for 3 months in Jerusalem. His mother was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah. 32 He did what the Lord considered evil, as his ancestors had done. 33 Pharaoh Necoh made him a prisoner at Riblah in the territory of Hamath during his reign [c] in Jerusalem and fined the country 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold.

34 Then Pharaoh Necoh made Josiah’s son Eliakim king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. He took Jehoahaz away to Egypt, where he died. 35 Jehoiakim gave Pharaoh the silver and the gold. But he had to tax the country to pay the silver Pharaoh had demanded. He taxed each person according to his wealth so that he could get the silver and gold from the people of the land and give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

King Jehoiakim of Judah(C)

36 Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to rule, and he was king for 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother was Zebidah, daughter of Pedaiah from Rumah. 37 Jehoiakim did what the Lord considered evil, as his ancestors had done.

Footnotes

  1. 23:2 Or “Covenant.”
  2. 23:8 Unclean   ” refers to anything that Moses’ Teachings say is not presentable to God.
  3. 23:33 Or “to keep him from ruling.”

Josiah Renews the Covenant(A)(B)(C)(D)

23 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of the Lord with the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the priests and the prophets—all the people from the least to the greatest. He read(E) in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant,(F) which had been found in the temple of the Lord. The king stood by the pillar(G) and renewed the covenant(H) in the presence of the Lord—to follow(I) the Lord and keep his commands, statutes and decrees with all his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the words of the covenant written in this book. Then all the people pledged themselves to the covenant.

The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the priests next in rank and the doorkeepers(J) to remove(K) from the temple of the Lord all the articles made for Baal and Asherah and all the starry hosts. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron Valley and took the ashes to Bethel. He did away with the idolatrous priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem—those who burned incense(L) to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.(M) He took the Asherah pole from the temple of the Lord to the Kidron Valley(N) outside Jerusalem and burned it there. He ground it to powder(O) and scattered the dust over the graves(P) of the common people.(Q) He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes(R) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba(S) to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the gateway at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which was on the left of the city gate. Although the priests of the high places did not serve(T) at the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

10 He desecrated Topheth,(U) which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom,(V) so no one could use it to sacrifice their son(W) or daughter in the fire to Molek. 11 He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah(X) had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court[a] near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.(Y)

12 He pulled down(Z) the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof(AA) near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts(AB) of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley.(AC) 13 The king also desecrated the high places that were east of Jerusalem on the south of the Hill of Corruption—the ones Solomon(AD) king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the vile goddess of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the vile god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable(AE) god of the people of Ammon.(AF) 14 Josiah smashed(AG) the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles and covered the sites with human bones.(AH)

15 Even the altar(AI) at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam(AJ) son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. 16 Then Josiah(AK) looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance(AL) with the word of the Lord proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.

17 The king asked, “What is that tombstone I see?”

The people of the city said, “It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it.”

18 “Leave it alone,” he said. “Don’t let anyone disturb his bones(AM).” So they spared his bones and those of the prophet(AN) who had come from Samaria.

19 Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria and that had aroused the Lord’s anger. 20 Josiah slaughtered(AO) all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones(AP) on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

21 The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover(AQ) to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”(AR) 22 Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.(AS)

24 Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists,(AT) the household gods,(AU) the idols and all the other detestable(AV) things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the Lord. 25 Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned(AW) to the Lord as he did—with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses.(AX)

26 Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger,(AY) which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh(AZ) had done to arouse his anger. 27 So the Lord said, “I will remove(BA) Judah also from my presence(BB) as I removed Israel, and I will reject(BC) Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’[b]

28 As for the other events of Josiah’s reign, and all he did, are they not written in the book of the annals of the kings of Judah?

29 While Josiah was king, Pharaoh Necho(BD) king of Egypt went up to the Euphrates River to help the king of Assyria. King Josiah marched out to meet him in battle, but Necho faced him and killed him at Megiddo.(BE) 30 Josiah’s servants brought his body in a chariot(BF) from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

Jehoahaz King of Judah(BG)

31 Jehoahaz(BH) was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal(BI) daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah. 32 He did evil(BJ) in the eyes of the Lord, just as his predecessors had done. 33 Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah(BK) in the land of Hamath(BL) so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents[c] of silver and a talent[d] of gold. 34 Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim(BM) son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz and carried him off to Egypt, and there he died.(BN) 35 Jehoiakim paid Pharaoh Necho the silver and gold he demanded. In order to do so, he taxed the land and exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land according to their assessments.(BO)

Jehoiakim King of Judah(BP)

36 Jehoiakim(BQ) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah. 37 And he did evil(BR) in the eyes of the Lord, just as his predecessors had done.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:11 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  2. 2 Kings 23:27 1 Kings 8:29
  3. 2 Kings 23:33 That is, about 3 3/4 tons or about 3.4 metric tons
  4. 2 Kings 23:33 That is, about 75 pounds or about 34 kilograms