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Endagaano Eragaanibwa buggya

23 Awo kabaka n’ayita abakadde bonna aba Yuda n’ab’omu Yerusaalemi. (A)N’ayambuka mu yeekaalu ya Mukama ne bakabona, ne bannabbi, n’abantu bonna okuva ku wa wansi okutuukira ddala ku wa waggulu mu bitiibwa byabwe. N’asoma ebigambo eby’omu Kitabo eky’Endagaano ekyali kizuuliddwa mu yeekaalu ya Mukama, nga bonna bawulira. (B)Awo kabaka n’ayimirira okuliraana empagi n’azza obuggya endagaano ne Mukama, okutambuliranga mu kkubo lya Mukama, n’okukwatanga amateeka ge, n’okutambuliranga mu mpya ze, n’okugonderanga ebiragiro bye, n’omutima gwe gwonna, n’emmeeme ye yonna, ng’akakasa ebyawandiikibwa ebyali mu kitabo ekyo. Awo abantu bonna ne beewaayo okuzza endagaano obuggya.

(C)Awo kabaka n’alagira Kirukiya kabona asinga obukulu ne bakabona abaamuddiriranga, wamu n’abaggazi okuggya mu yeekaalu ya Mukama ebintu byonna ebya Baali n’ebya Asera, n’eby’eggye lyonna ery’omu ggulu, n’abyokera ebweru wa Yerusaalemi mu ttale eriri mu kiwonvu kya Kiduloni, evvu n’alitwala e Beseri[a]. (D)N’agoba bakabona abaasinzanga ebifaananyi abaali balondeddwa bassekabaka ba Yuda okwoterezanga obubaane mu bifo ebigulumivu mu bibuga ebya Yuda n’okwetooloola Yerusaalemi, n’abo abayoterezanga obubaane eri Baali n’enjuba n’omwezi, n’eri emunyeenye n’eri eggye lyonna ery’omu ggulu. (E)N’aggya empagi ya Asera[b] mu yeekaalu ya Mukama, n’agitwala ebweru wa Yerusaalemi mu kiwonvu ekya Kiduloni, n’agyokera eyo. N’agisekulasekula n’asaasaanya evvu lyayo ku malaalo ag’abantu abaabulijjo. (F)Ate era yamenyaamenya n’ennyumba ez’abaalyanga ebisiyaga ezaali mu yeekaalu ya Mukama, era eyo abakazi gye baalukiriranga Asera ebitimbibwa.

(G)Awo Yosiya n’aleeta bakabona bonna okuva mu bibuga bya Yuda, n’ayonoona ebifo ebigulumivu okuva e Geba okutuuka e Beeruseba, bakabona gye baayoterezanga obubaane, era n’amenyaamenya amasabo agaali okumpi ne wankaaki ow’oku Mulyango gwa Yoswa, omukulembeze ow’ekibuga, agaali ku luuyi olwa kkono olwa wankaaki ow’ekibuga. (H)Newaakubadde nga bakabona bali ab’oku bifo ebigulumivu tebaweerezanga ku kyoto kya Mukama mu Yerusaalemi, balyanga emigaati egitali mizimbulukuse wamu ne bakabona bannaabwe.

10 (I)Yavvoola era n’amenyaamenya ekyoto kya Tofesi ekyali mu Kiwonvu ky’abaana ba Kinomu, obutaganya muntu yenna kuwaayo mwana we owoobulenzi newaakubadde owoobuwala ng’ekiweebwayo eri Moleki. 11 (J)Era yaggyawo n’embalaasi ezaali mu mulyango gwa yeekaalu, bassekabaka ba Yuda ze baali bawonze eri enjuba, era n’ayokya amagaali ze gaasikanga. Zaabeeranga mu luggya okuliraana n’ekisenge ekyali eky’omukungu Nasanumereki. 12 (K)Yamenyaamenya n’ebyoto bassekabaka ba Yuda bye baali bazimbye ku kasolya okumpi n’ekisenge ekya waggulu ekya Akazi, era n’ebyoto Manase bye yali azimbye mu mpya zombi eza yeekaalu ya Mukama. Byonna yabiggyayo, n’abimenyaamenya, enfuufu yaabyo n’agiyiwa mu kiwonvu ekya Kiduloni. 13 (L)Era kabaka n’ayonoona n’ebifo ebigulumivu ebyali ebuvanjuba w’e Yerusaalemi ku luuyi olwa bukiikaddyo ku lusozi olw’okuzikirira, ebyo Sulemaani kabaka wa Isirayiri bye yazimbira bakatonda ab’omuzizo: Asutoleesi katonda omukazi ow’Abasidoni, ne Kemosi ow’Abamowaabu, ne Mirukomu ow’Abamoni. 14 (M)N’amenyaamenya empagi, n’atemaatema empagi za Asera era ebifo ebyo n’abijjuza amagumba g’abantu.

Amasabo n’Ebyoto Bimenyebwamenyebwa

15 (N)Era n’ekyoto ekyali e Beseri, n’ekifo ekigulumivu ekyaleetera Isirayiri okwonoona, Yerobowaamu mutabani wa Nebati bye yali azimbye, byonna Yosiya n’abimenyaamenya. N’ayokya era n’asekulasekula ekifo ekigulumivu okutuusa lwe kyafuuka enfuufu era n’ayokya n’empagi eya Asera. 16 (O)Awo Yosiya bwe yatunulatunula, n’alaba amalaalo agaali ku lusozi, n’agenda n’aggyamu amagumba g’abafu n’agokera ku kyoto n’akyonoona, ng’ekigambo kya Mukama bwe kyali omusajja wa Katonda kye yalangirira.

17 Awo kabaka n’abuuza nti, “Kijjukizo ki ekyo kye ndaba?” Abasajja ab’ekibuga ne bamuddamu nti, “Ago ge malaalo ag’omusajja wa Katonda eyava mu Yuda n’alangirira ebigambo ebikwata ku kyoto eky’e Beseri, by’okikoze.” 18 (P)N’abagamba nti, “Mugaleke, era temuganya muntu yenna kukwata ku magumba ge.” Awo ne batakwata ku magumba ge, wadde aga nnabbi ow’e Samaliya. 19 N’amasabo gonna agaali mu bifo ebigulumivu bassekabaka ba Yuda bye baali bazimbye mu bibuga bya Samaliya ne baleetera obusungu bwa Mukama okubuubuuka, Yosiya n’agavvoola era n’agaggyawo nga bwe yakola e Beseri. 20 (Q)Yosiya n’atta bakabona bonna abaaweerezanga mu bifo ebigulumivu ku byoto byayo, era amagumba gaabwe n’agokera okwo, n’oluvannyuma n’addayo e Yerusaalemi.

Okukuuma Embaga ey’Okuyitako

21 (R)Awo kabaka n’alagira abantu bonna ng’agamba nti, “Mukwate Okuyitako kwa Mukama Katonda wammwe ng’ekyawandiikibwa bwe kiri mu Kitabo eky’endagaano.” 22 Okuviira ddala ku mirembe gy’abalamuzi, ne ku mirembe gya bassekabaka ba Isirayiri n’aba Yuda, tewaaliwo kukwata Mbaga ey’Okuyitako. 23 Naye mu mwaka ogw’ekkumi n’omunaana ogw’obufuzi bwa kabaka Yosiya, Embaga eyo n’ebaawo mu Yerusaalemi. 24 (S)Ate era n’abafumu, n’aboogeza emizimu, n’ebifaananyi, n’eby’emizizo byonna ebyali mu Yuda ne mu Yerusaalemi, Yosiya, n’abiwera. Ekyo yakikola okutuukiriza ebigambo eby’etteeka eryali mu kitabo Kirukiya kabona kye yazuula mu Yeekaalu ya Mukama. 25 (T)Era tewali kabaka eyasooka Yosiya wadde eyamuddirira eyamufaanana era eyakyukira Mukama n’omutima gwe gwonna, n’emmeeme ye yonna era n’amaanyi ge gonna, ng’agoberera Amateeka ga Musa.

26 (U)Kyokka Mukama n’atakendeeza ku busungu bwe obungi obwabuubuukira ku Yuda, olw’ebikolwa byonna ebya Manase ebyaleetera Mukama okusunguwala. 27 (V)Awo Mukama n’ayogera nti, “Ndiggyawo Yuda mu maaso gange nga bwe nnaggyawo Isirayiri, era n’ekibuga Yerusaalemi kye nneeroboza, wamu ne yeekaalu eno gye nayogerako nti, ‘Erinnya lyange linaabanga omwo,’ siribisaako nate mwoyo.” 28 Ebyafaayo ebirala byonna eby’omu mirembe gya Yosiya, ne bye yakola byonna, tebyawandiikibwa mu kitabo eky’ebyomumirembe gya bassekabaka ba Yuda?

29 (W)Awo mu biro ebyo, Falaawo Neko nga ye kabaka wa Misiri n’ayambuka okutabaala kabaka w’e Bwasuli ku Mugga Fulaati; kabaka Yosiya n’agenda okumubeera, naye Falaawo Neko olwamulengera ng’ajja, n’amuttira e Megiddo. 30 (X)Abaddu ba Yosiya ne bateeka omulambo gwe mu gaali ne baguggya e Megiddo ne bagutwala e Yerusaalemi, ne bamuziika mu ntaana ye. Awo abantu ab’omu nsi ne batwala Yekoyakaazi mutabani wa Yosiya ne bamufukako amafuta ne bamufuula kabaka n’asikira kitaawe okuba kabaka.

Yekoyakaazi kabaka wa Yuda

31 (Y)Yekoyakaazi we yaliira obwakabaka yalina emyaka amakumi abiri mu esatu, era n’afugira mu Yerusaalemi okumala emyezi esatu. Nnyina erinnya lye yali Kamutali muwala wa Yeremiya ow’e Libuna. 32 N’akola ebibi mu maaso ga Mukama nga bajjajjaabe bwe baakola. 33 (Z)Falaawo Neko n’amuggya ku bwakabaka n’amusibira mu masamba e Libula mu nsi y’e Kamasi obutaddayo kufuga mu Yerusaalemi, era n’asalira Yuda omusolo ogw’effeeza ttani ssatu ne bisatu byakuna ne zaabu kilo amakumi asatu mu nnya. 34 (AA)Awo Falaawo Neko n’afuula Eriyakimu mutabani wa Yosiya kabaka, n’akyusa n’erinnya lye, n’amutuuma Yekoyakimu. N’aggyayo Yekoyakaazi, n’amutwala e Misiri, era eyo gye yafiira. 35 (AB)Awo Yekoyakimu n’awangayo effeeza ne zaabu nga Falaawo Neko bwe yalagira. Era okusobola okutuukirizanga ekyo, Yekoyakimu yawoozanga abantu, n’abaggyangako effeeza ne zaabu nga buli muntu bwe yagerekebwa.

Yekoyakimu, Kabaka wa Yuda

36 (AC)Yekoyakimu we yafuukira kabaka yali awezezza emyaka amakumi abiri mu etaano, era n’afugira mu Yerusaalemi okumala emyaka kkumi na gumu. Nnyina erinnya lye yali Zebida muwala wa Pedaya ow’e Luuma. 37 Naye n’akola ebibi mu maaso ga Mukama, nga bajjajjaabe be bwe baakola.

Footnotes

  1. 23:4 Beseri kye kifo awasinzibwanga Mukama Katonda mu biro eby’edda (Lub 28:19). Ekifo ekyo bakabaka ba Isirayiri baasinzizangayo balubaale (1Bk 12:25-29)
  2. 23:6 Empagi ya Asera yali ezikirizibbwa Keezeekiya, kyokka Manase n’agizzaawo

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