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Renovación del pacto(A)(B)(C)

23 Entonces el rey mandó convocar a todos los jefes de Judá y Jerusalén. 2 Acompañado de toda la gente de Judá y de Jerusalén, de los sacerdotes, de los profetas, en fin, de la nación entera, desde el más pequeño hasta el más grande, el rey subió al Templo del Señor. Entonces, en presencia de ellos leyó todo lo que está escrito en el libro del pacto que fue hallado en el Templo del Señor. 3 Después se puso de pie junto a la columna del rey y en presencia del Señor renovó el pacto. Se comprometió a seguir al Señor y a cumplir, de todo corazón y con toda el alma, sus mandamientos, estatutos y mandatos, reafirmando así las palabras del pacto escritas en este libro. Y todo el pueblo confirmó el pacto.

4 Luego el rey ordenó al sumo sacerdote Jilquías, a los sacerdotes de segundo rango y a los porteros que sacaran del Templo del Señor todos los objetos consagrados a Baal, a Aserá y a todos los astros del cielo. Hizo que los quemaran en los campos de Cedrón, a las afueras de Jerusalén, y que llevaran las cenizas a Betel. 5 También destituyó a los sacerdotes idólatras que los reyes de Judá habían nombrado para quemar[a] incienso en los altares paganos, tanto en las ciudades de Judá como en los alrededores de Jerusalén, los cuales quemaban incienso a Baal, al sol y a la luna, al zodíaco y a todos los astros del cielo. 6 El rey sacó del Templo del Señor la imagen para el culto a Aserá y la llevó al arroyo de Cedrón, en las afueras de Jerusalén; allí la quemó hasta convertirla en cenizas, las cuales echó en la fosa común. 7 Además, derrumbó en el Templo del Señor los cuartos dedicados a la prostitución sagrada, donde las mujeres tejían mantos[b] para la diosa Aserá.

8 Josías trasladó a Jerusalén a todos los sacerdotes de las ciudades de Judá y desde Gueba hasta Berseba profanó los altares paganos donde ellos habían quemado incienso. También derribó los altares paganos junto a la puerta de Josué, gobernador de la ciudad, que está ubicada a la izquierda de la entrada a la ciudad. 9 Aunque los sacerdotes que habían servido en los altares paganos no podían ministrar en el altar del Señor en Jerusalén, participaban de las comidas sagradas junto con los otros sacerdotes.[c]

10 El rey profanó el santuario llamado Tofet, que estaba en el valle de Ben Hinón, para que nadie sacrificara en el fuego a su hijo o hija en honor de Moloc. 11 Se llevó los caballos que los reyes de Judá habían consagrado al sol y que se habían puesto en la entrada al Templo del Señor, junto a la habitación de Natán Mélec, el eunuco encargado del recinto. Josías también quemó los carros consagrados al sol.

12 Además, el rey derribó los altares que los reyes de Judá habían erigido en la azotea de la sala de Acaz; también los que Manasés había erigido en los dos atrios del Templo del Señor. Los hizo pedazos y echó los escombros en el arroyo de Cedrón. 13 Profanó los altares paganos que había al este de Jerusalén, en el lado sur de la Colina de la Destrucción,[d] los cuales Salomón, rey de Israel, había construido para Astarté, la despreciable diosa de los sidonios, para Quemós, el detestable dios de los moabitas, y para Moloc,[e] el abominable dios de los amonitas. 14 Josías hizo pedazos las piedras sagradas y las imágenes de la diosa Aserá, y llenó con huesos humanos los lugares donde se habían erigido.

15 Derribó también el altar de Betel y el altar pagano construidos por Jeroboán, hijo de Nabat, que hizo pecar a Israel. Además, quemó el altar pagano hasta convertirlo en cenizas y prendió fuego a la imagen de Aserá. 16 De regreso, al ver los sepulcros que había en la colina, Josías mandó que recogieran los huesos y los quemaran en el altar para profanarlo, cumpliendo así la palabra del Señor que el hombre de Dios había comunicado cuando anunció estas cosas.

17 Luego el rey preguntó:

—¿De quién es ese monumento que veo allá?

Y los habitantes de la ciudad contestaron:

—Es el sepulcro del hombre de Dios que vino desde Judá y que pronunció contra el altar de Betel lo que usted acaba de hacer.

18 —Déjenlo, pues —respondió el rey—; que nadie mueva sus huesos.

Fue así como se conservaron sus huesos junto con los del profeta que había venido de Samaria.

19 Tal como lo hizo en Betel, Josías eliminó todos los altares paganos que los reyes de Israel habían construido en las ciudades de Samaria, con los que provocaron la ira del Señor. 20 Finalmente, mató sobre los altares paganos a todos los sacerdotes y encima de los altares quemó huesos humanos. Entonces regresó a Jerusalén.

21 Después el rey dio esta orden al pueblo:

—Celebren la Pascua del Señor su Dios, según está escrito en este libro del pacto.

22 Desde la época de los líderes[f] que gobernaron a Israel hasta la de los reyes de Israel y de Judá, no se había celebrado una Pascua semejante. 23 Pero, en el año dieciocho del reinado del rey Josías, la Pascua se celebró en honor del Señor.

24 Además, Josías expulsó a los médiums y a los espiritistas, y eliminó toda clase de ídolos y el resto de las cosas detestables que se veían en el país de Judá y en Jerusalén. Lo hizo así para cumplir las instrucciones de la Ley, escritas en el libro que el sacerdote Jilquías encontró en el Templo del Señor. 25 Ni antes ni después de Josías hubo otro rey que, como él, se volviera al Señor de todo corazón, con toda el alma y con todas sus fuerzas, siguiendo en todo la Ley de Moisés.

26 A pesar de eso, el Señor no apagó el gran fuego de su ira, que ardía contra Judá por todas las afrentas con que Manasés lo había provocado. 27 Por lo tanto, el Señor declaró: «Voy a apartar de mi presencia a Judá, como lo hice con Israel; repudiaré a Jerusalén, la ciudad que escogí, y a este Templo, del cual dije: “Ese será el lugar donde yo pondré mi Nombre”».

28 Los demás acontecimientos del reinado de Josías y todo lo que hizo están escritos en el libro de las crónicas de los reyes de Judá.

29 En aquel tiempo, el faraón Necao, rey de Egipto, fue a encontrarse con el rey de Asiria camino del río Éufrates. El rey Josías le salió al paso, pero Necao le hizo frente en Meguido y lo mató. 30 Los oficiales de Josías llevaron su cadáver en un carro desde Meguido hasta Jerusalén y lo sepultaron en su tumba. Entonces el pueblo tomó a Joacaz, hijo de Josías, lo ungió y lo proclamó rey en lugar de su padre.

Joacaz, rey de Judá(D)

31 Joacaz tenía veintitrés años cuando comenzó a reinar, y reinó en Jerusalén tres meses. Su madre era Jamutal hija de Jeremías, oriunda de Libná. 32 Joacaz hizo lo malo ante los ojos del Señor, tal como lo habían hecho sus antepasados. 33 Para impedir que Joacaz reinara en Jerusalén, el faraón Necao lo encarceló en Riblá, en el territorio de Jamat, y además impuso sobre Judá un tributo de cien talentos[g] de plata y un talento[h] de oro. 34 Luego hizo rey a Eliaquín, hijo de Josías, en lugar de su padre y cambió su nombre a Joacim. En cuanto a Joacaz, lo llevó a Egipto, donde murió. 35 Joacim pagó al faraón Necao la plata y el oro que exigió, pero tuvo que establecer un impuesto sobre el país: reclamó de cada persona, según su peso oficial, la plata y el oro que se le debía entregar al faraón Necao.

Joacim, rey de Judá(E)

36 Joacim tenía veinticinco años cuando comenzó a reinar; reinó en Jerusalén once años. Su madre era Zebudá hija de Pedaías, oriunda de Rumá. 37 También este rey hizo lo malo ante los ojos del Señor, tal como lo hicieron sus antepasados.

Footnotes

  1. 23:5 para quemar (mss. de LXX, Siríaca y Vulgata); y quemó (TM).
  2. 23:7 mantos. Palabra de difícil traducción.
  3. 23:9 participaban … sacerdotes. Lit. comían panes sin levadura con sus hermanos.
  4. 23:13 la Colina de la Destrucción. Es decir, el monte de los Olivos.
  5. 23:13 Moloc. Lit. Milcón.
  6. 23:22 Véase Jue 2:16.
  7. 23:33 Es decir, aprox. 3.4 t.
  8. 23:33 Es decir, aprox. 34 kg.
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Josiah Renews the Covenant(A)(B)(C)(D)

23 Then the king called together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 2 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. 3 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.

4 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. 5 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) 6 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) 7 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.

8 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. 9 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
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Josiah's Reforms

23 (A)Then the king sent, and all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem were gathered to him. 2 And the king went up to the house of the Lord, and with him all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the priests and the prophets, all the people, both small and great. And (B)he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant (C)that had been found in the house of the Lord. 3 And the king stood (D)by the pillar and (E)made a covenant before the Lord, (F)to walk after the Lord and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people joined in the covenant.

4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests (G)of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for (H)Baal, for (I)Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. (J)He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. 5 And he deposed the priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to make offerings in the high places at the cities of Judah and around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and the moon and the constellations (K)and all the host of the heavens. 6 And he brought out (L)the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, (M)and burned it at the brook Kidron (N)and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves (O)of the common people. 7 And he broke down the houses of (P)the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, (Q)where the women wove hangings for (R)the Asherah. 8 And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had made offerings, from (S)Geba to Beersheba. And he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the gate of the city. 9 (T)However, the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers. 10 And he defiled (U)Topheth, which is (V)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, (W)that no one might burn his son or his daughter as an offering to (X)Molech.[a] 11 And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts.[b] And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire. 12 And the altars (Y)on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars (Z)that Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, he pulled down and broke in pieces[c] and cast the dust of them (AA)into the brook Kidron. 13 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of (AB)the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for (AC)Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for (AD)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for (AE)Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 14 And he broke in pieces the (AF)pillars and cut down the Asherim and filled their places with the bones of men.

15 Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected (AG)by Jeroboam the son of Nebat, (AH)who made Israel to sin, (AI)that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned,[d] reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah. 16 And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, (AJ)according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things. 17 Then he said, “What is that monument that I see?” And the men of the city told him, (AK)“It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted[e] these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel.” 18 And he said, “Let him be; let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones (AL)of the prophet who came out of Samaria. 19 And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were (AM)in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger. He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel. 20 And (AN)he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there, on the altars, (AO)and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Josiah Restores the Passover

21 And the king commanded all the people, (AP)“Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, (AQ)as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.” 22 (AR)For no such Passover had been kept since the days of the judges who judged Israel, or during all the days of the kings of Israel or of the kings of Judah. 23 But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24 Moreover, Josiah put away (AS)the mediums and the necromancers and (AT)the household gods and (AU)the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish (AV)the words of the law that were written in the book (AW)that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord. 25 (AX)Before him there was no king like him, who 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, nor did any like him arise after him.

26 Still the Lord did not turn from the burning of his great wrath, by which his anger was kindled against Judah, (AY)because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him. 27 And the Lord said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, (AZ)as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city that I have chosen, Jerusalem, (BA)and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.”

Josiah's Death in Battle

28 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 (BB)In his days (BC)Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at (BD)Megiddo, as soon as he saw him. 30 (BE)And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from (BF)Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. (BG)And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.

Jehoahaz's Reign and Captivity

31 (BH)Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother's name was (BI)Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah. 32 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, (BJ)according to all that his fathers had done. 33 And (BK)Pharaoh Neco put him in bonds at (BL)Riblah in the land of (BM)Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and laid on the land a tribute of a hundred talents[f] of silver and a talent of gold. 34 And (BN)Pharaoh Neco made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and (BO)changed his name to Jehoiakim. But he took Jehoahaz away, (BP)and he came to Egypt and died there. 35 And Jehoiakim (BQ)gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

Jehoiakim Reigns in Judah

36 (BR)Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah. 37 And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, (BS)according to all that his fathers had done.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 23:10 Hebrew might cause his son or daughter to pass through the fire for Molech
  2. 2 Kings 23:11 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  3. 2 Kings 23:12 Hebrew pieces from there
  4. 2 Kings 23:15 Septuagint broke in pieces its stones
  5. 2 Kings 23:17 Hebrew called
  6. 2 Kings 23:33 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
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