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Síðari Kroníkubók 28-29
Icelandic Bible
Síðari Kroníkubók 28-29
Icelandic Bible
28 Akas var tvítugur að aldri, þá er hann varð konungur, og sextán ár ríkti hann í Jerúsalem. Hann gjörði ekki það, sem rétt var í augum Drottins, svo sem Davíð forfaðir hans,
2 heldur fetaði hann í fótspor Ísraelskonunga, og lét auk þess gjöra steypt líkneski, Baölunum til handa.
3 Hann brenndi og reykelsi í Hinnomssonardal, lét sonu sína ganga gegnum eldinn, og drýgði þannig sömu svívirðingarnar og þær þjóðir, er Drottinn hafði stökkt burt undan Ísraelsmönnum.
4 Hann fórnaði og sláturfórnum og reykelsisfórnum á hæðunum og hólunum og undir hverju grænu tré.
5 Þá gaf Drottinn, Guð hans, hann á vald Sýrlandskonungi, og unnu þeir sigur á honum og höfðu burt með sér hernumda fjöldamarga af mönnum hans, og fluttu til Damaskus. Auk þessa var hann og gefinn Ísraelskonungi á vald, og vann hann mikinn sigur á honum.
6 Og Peka Remaljason drap á einum degi í Júda hundrað og tuttugu þúsundir, allt hrausta menn, af því að þeir höfðu yfirgefið Drottin, Guð feðra sinna.
7 En Síkrí, kappi úr Efraím, drap Maaseja konungsson og Asríkam hallarstjóra og Elkana, er næstur gekk konungi.
8 Og Ísraelsmenn höfðu burt með sér tvö hundruð þúsund af herteknu fólki frá frændum sínum, konur, sonu og dætur, tók af þeim afar mikið herfang og fóru með herfangið til Samaríu.
9 En þar var spámaður Drottins, er Ódeð hét. Hann fór út, gekk fram fyrir herinn, er kom til Samaríu, og mælti til þeirra: "Sjá, af því að Drottinn, Guð feðra yðar, var reiður Júdamönnum, gaf hann þá yður á vald, svo að þér gátuð drepið þá niður með þeirri reiði, er nær til himins.
10 Og nú hyggið þér að gjöra þessa Júdamenn og Jerúsalembúa að þrælum yðar og ambáttum. En eruð þér þá eigi sjálfir sekir við Drottin, Guð yðar?
11 Hlýðið því á mig og sendið aftur fangana, er þér hafið haft burt hernumda frá frændum yðar, því að hin brennandi reiði Drottins vofir yfir yður."
12 Þá risu nokkrir af höfðingjum Efraímíta, þeir Asarja Jóhanansson, Berekía Mesillemótsson, Hiskía Sallúmsson og Amasa Hadlaíson upp í gegn þeim, er komu úr herförinni,
13 og sögðu við þá: "Þér skuluð eigi fara með fangana hingað, því að þér ætlið að auka við syndir vorar og sekt, í viðbót við sekt þá við Drottin, er á oss hvílir. Því að sekt vor er mikil, og brennandi reiði vofir yfir Ísrael."
14 Þá slepptu hermennirnir föngunum og herfanginu í viðurvist höfuðsmannanna og alls safnaðarins.
15 Gengu þá til menn þeir, er til þess voru kvaddir með nafni, og önnuðust fangana. Klæddu þeir af herfanginu alla þá, er naktir voru meðal þeirra, gáfu þeim klæði og skó og að eta og drekka og smurðu þá, settu alla þá á asna, er uppgefnir voru, og fluttu þá til Jeríkó, pálmaborgarinnar, til frænda þeirra, og sneru síðan heim aftur til Samaríu.
16 Um þessar mundir sendi Akas konungur til Assýríukonunga til þess að biðja sér liðveislu.
17 Þá komu og Edómítar, unnu sigur á Júdamönnum og færðu burt bandingja.
18 En Filistar réðust inn í borgirnar á láglendinu og í Júda sunnanverðu, tóku Bet Semes, Ajalon, Gederót og Sókó og þorpin umhverfis hana, Timna og þorpin umhverfis hana og Gimsó og þorpin umhverfis hana, og settust þar að.
19 Því að Drottinn lægði Júda sakir Akasar Ísraelskonungs, því að hann hafði framið gegndarlausa óhæfu í Júda og sýnt Drottni mikla ótrúmennsku.
20 Þá fór Tílgat-Pilneser Assýríukonungur í móti honum og kreppti að honum, en veitti honum eigi lið.
21 Því að Akas ruplaði musteri Drottins og konungshöllina og höfuðsmennina, og gaf Assýríukonungi, en það kom honum að engu haldi.
22 Og um þær mundir, sem hann kreppti að honum, sýndi hann, Akas konungur, Drottni ótrúmennsku enn að nýju.
23 Hann færði fórnir guðunum í Damaskus, þeim er höfðu unnið sigur á honum, og mæltu: "Það eru guðir Sýrlandskonunga, er hafa hjálpað þeim. Þeim vil ég færa fórnir, til þess að þeir hjálpi mér." En þeir urðu honum og öllum Ísrael til falls.
24 Og Akas safnaði saman áhöldum Guðs húss og braut sundur áhöld Guðs húss. Hann lokaði og dyrunum á musteri Drottins, en gjörði sér ölturu í hverju horni í Jerúsalem.
25 Og í sérhverri Júdaborg gjörði hann fórnarhæðir til þess að brenna reykelsi fyrir öðrum guðum, og egndi þannig Drottin, Guð feðra sinna, til reiði.
26 Það sem meira er að segja um hann og öll fyrirtæki hans, bæði fyrr og síðar, það er ritað í bók Júda- og Ísraelskonunga.
27 Og Akas lagðist til hvíldar hjá feðrum sínum og var grafinn í borginni, í Jerúsalem, því að eigi var hann færður í grafir Ísraelskonunga. Og Hiskía sonur hans tók ríki eftir hann.
29 Hiskía varð konungur, þá er hann var tuttugu og fimm ára gamall og tuttugu og níu ár ríkti hann í Jerúsalem. Móðir hans hét Abía Sakaríadóttir.
2 Hann gjörði það, sem rétt var í augum Drottins, að öllu svo sem gjört hafði Davíð forfaðir hans.
3 Í fyrsta mánuði á fyrsta ríkisári sínu opnaði hann dyrnar að musteri Drottins, og gjörði við þær.
4 Síðan lét hann prestana og levítana koma og stefndi þeim saman á auða svæðinu austan til.
5 Og hann sagði við þá: "Hlýðið á mig, þér levítar! Helgið nú sjálfa yður og helgið musteri Drottins, Guðs feðra yðar, og útrýmið viðurstyggðinni úr helgidóminum.
6 Því að feður vorir hafa sýnt ótrúmennsku og gjört það, sem illt var í augum Drottins, Guðs vors, og yfirgefið hann. Þeir sneru augliti sínu burt frá bústað Drottins og sneru við honum bakinu.
7 Þá hafa þeir og læst dyrunum að forsalnum, slökkt á lömpunum, eigi brennt reykelsi og eigi fært Guði Ísraels brennifórn í helgidóminum.
8 Fyrir því kom reiði Drottins yfir Júda og Jerúsalem, og hann lét þá sæta misþyrmingu og gjörði þá að undri og athlægi, svo sem þér sjáið með eigin augum.
9 Nú eru þá feður vorir fallnir fyrir sverðseggjum, og synir vorir og dætur og konur eru hernumdar fyrir þetta.
10 Nú hefi ég einsett mér að gjöra sáttmála við Drottin, Guð Ísraels, til þess að hin brennandi reiði hans megi hverfa frá oss.
11 Verið þá eigi skeytingarlausir, synir mínir! Því að yður hefir Drottinn útvalið til þess að standa frammi fyrir sér, til þess að þjóna sér, og til þess að þér skuluð vera þjónustumenn hans og brenna reykelsi honum til handa."
12 Þá gengu fram levítarnir: Mahat Amasaíson og Jóel Asarjason af Kahatítaniðjum. Af Meraríniðjum: Kís Abdíson og Asarja Jehallelelsson. Af Gersonítum: Jóa Simmason og Eden Jóason.
13 Af Elísafsniðjum: Simrí og Jeíel. Af Asafsniðjum: Sakaría og Mattanja.
14 Af Hemansniðjum: Jehíel og Símeí. Af Jedútúnsniðjum: Semaja og Ússíel.
15 Stefndu þeir saman frændum sínum, helguðu sig og komu að boði konungs til þess að hreinsa musteri Drottins eftir fyrirmælum Drottins.
16 Og prestarnir fóru inn í musteri Drottins til þess að hreinsa það, og fóru með allt óhreint, er þeir fundu í musteri Drottins, út í forgarð musteris Drottins. Tóku levítarnir við því til þess að fara með það út í Kídronlæk.
17 Hófu þeir helgunina hinn fyrsta dag hins fyrsta mánaðar, og á áttunda degi mánaðarins voru þeir komnir að forsal Drottins. Helguðu þeir síðan musteri Drottins á átta dögum, og á sextánda degi hins fyrsta mánaðar var verkinu lokið.
18 Gengu þeir þá inn fyrir Hiskía konung og sögðu: "Vér höfum hreinsað allt musteri Drottins og brennifórnaraltarið og öll áhöld þess, svo og borðið fyrir raðabrauðin og öll áhöld þess.
19 Og öll þau áhöld, er Akas konungur smáði af ótrúmennsku sinni, höfum vér sett fram og helgað. Standa þau nú frammi fyrir altari Drottins."
20 Næsta morgun snemma stefndi Hiskía konungur saman höfuðsmönnum borgarinnar og fór upp í musteri Drottins.
21 Færðu þeir þá sjö naut, sjö hrúta, sjö lömb og sjö geithafra í syndafórn fyrir ríkið og fyrir helgidóminn og fyrir Júda. Og hann bauð niðjum Arons, prestunum, að færa hana á altari Drottins.
22 Slátruðu þeir þá nautunum, og tóku prestarnir við blóðinu og stökktu á altarið. Síðan slátruðu þeir hrútunum og stökktu blóðinu á altarið. Þá slátruðu þeir lömbunum og stökktu blóðinu á altarið.
23 Síðan færðu þeir syndafórnarhafrana fram fyrir konung og söfnuðinn, og lögðu þeir hendur sínar á þá.
24 Síðan slátruðu prestarnir þeim og færðu blóð þeirra í syndafórn á altarinu til þess að friðþægja fyrir allan Ísrael, því að konungur hafði fyrirskipað brennifórnina og syndafórnina fyrir allan Ísrael.
25 Og hann setti levítana í musteri Drottins með skálabumbur, hörpur og gígjur, samkvæmt fyrirmælum Davíðs og Gaðs, sjáanda konungs, og Natans spámanns. Því að þessi fyrirmæli voru að tilstilli Drottins, fyrir munn spámanna hans.
26 Stóðu þá levítarnir með hljóðfæri Davíðs, og prestarnir með lúðra.
27 Þá bauð Hiskía að láta brennifórnina á altarið og er brennifórnin var hafin, hófst og söngur Drottins og lúðrarnir kváðu við undir forustu hljóðfæra Davíðs Ísraelskonungs.
28 Þá féll allur söfnuðurinn fram, söngurinn kvað við og lúðrarnir gullu, allt þetta, þar til er brennifórninni var lokið.
29 Og er fórnfæringunni var lokið, beygði konungur kné sín og allir þeir, er með honum voru, og féllu fram.
30 Bauð þá Hiskía konungur og höfuðsmennirnir levítunum að syngja Drottni lofsöng með orðum Davíðs og Asafs sjáanda, og sungu þeir lofsönginn með gleði, hneigðu sig og féllu fram.
31 Þá tók Hiskía til máls og sagði: "Nú hafið þér vígt yður Drottni. Gangið nú fram og farið með sláturfórnir og þakkarfórnir í musteri Drottins." Færði þá söfnuðurinn sláturfórnir og þakkarfórnir, og hver, sem til þess var fús, færði brennifórnir.
32 En talan á brennifórnunum, er söfnuðurinn færði, var: sjötíu naut, hundrað hrútar og tvö hundruð lömb. Var allt þetta ætlað til brennifórnar Drottni til handa.
33 Og þakkarfórnirnar voru sex hundruð naut og þrjú þúsund sauðir.
34 En prestarnir voru of fáir, svo að þeir gátu ekki flegið öll brennifórnardýrin. Hjálpuðu þá frændur þeirra, levítarnir, þeim, uns starfinu var lokið og prestarnir helguðu sig, því að levítarnir höfðu einlægari áhuga á því að helga sig en prestarnir.
35 Auk þessa voru færðar margar brennifórnir, ásamt hinum feitu stykkjum heillafórnanna og dreypifórnum þeim, er brennifórnunum fylgdu. Þannig var þjónustunni við musteri Drottins komið í lag.
36 En Hiskía og allur lýðurinn gladdist yfir því, er Guð hafði búið lýðnum, því að þessu var komið í kring samstundis.
2 Chronicles 28-29
New International Version
2 Chronicles 28-29
New International Version
Ahaz King of Judah(A)
28 Ahaz(B) was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord. 2 He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols(C) for worshiping the Baals. 3 He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom(D) and sacrificed his children(E) in the fire, engaging in the detestable(F) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites. 4 He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
5 Therefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram.(G) The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.
He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. 6 In one day Pekah(H) son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah(I)—because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors. 7 Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. 8 The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah(J) two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.(K)
9 But a prophet of the Lord named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, “Because the Lord, the God of your ancestors, was angry(L) with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven.(M) 10 And now you intend to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem your slaves.(N) But aren’t you also guilty of sins against the Lord your God? 11 Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the Lord’s fierce anger rests on you.(O)”
12 Then some of the leaders in Ephraim—Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai—confronted those who were arriving from the war. 13 “You must not bring those prisoners here,” they said, “or we will be guilty before the Lord. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.”
14 So the soldiers gave up the prisoners and plunder in the presence of the officials and all the assembly. 15 The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink,(P) and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms,(Q) and returned to Samaria.(R)
16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings[a] of Assyria(S) for help. 17 The Edomites(T) had again come and attacked Judah and carried away prisoners,(U) 18 while the Philistines(V) had raided towns in the foothills and in the Negev of Judah. They captured and occupied Beth Shemesh, Aijalon(W) and Gederoth,(X) as well as Soko,(Y) Timnah(Z) and Gimzo, with their surrounding villages. 19 The Lord had humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel,[b] for he had promoted wickedness in Judah and had been most unfaithful(AA) to the Lord. 20 Tiglath-Pileser[c](AB) king of Assyria(AC) came to him, but he gave him trouble(AD) instead of help.(AE) 21 Ahaz(AF) took some of the things from the temple of the Lord and from the royal palace and from the officials and presented them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help him.(AG)
22 In his time of trouble King Ahaz became even more unfaithful(AH) to the Lord. 23 He offered sacrifices to the gods(AI) of Damascus, who had defeated him; for he thought, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram have helped them, I will sacrifice to them so they will help me.”(AJ) But they were his downfall and the downfall of all Israel.(AK)
24 Ahaz gathered together the furnishings(AL) from the temple of God(AM) and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors(AN) of the Lord’s temple and set up altars(AO) at every street corner in Jerusalem. 25 In every town in Judah he built high places to burn sacrifices to other gods and aroused the anger of the Lord, the God of his ancestors.
26 The other events of his reign and all his ways, from beginning to end, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 27 Ahaz rested(AP) with his ancestors and was buried(AQ) in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And Hezekiah his son succeeded him as king.
Hezekiah Purifies the Temple(AR)
29 Hezekiah(AS) was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah. 2 He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David(AT) had done.
3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired(AU) them. 4 He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side 5 and said: “Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate(AV) yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary. 6 Our parents(AW) were unfaithful;(AX) they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the Lord’s dwelling place and turned their backs on him. 7 They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense(AY) or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel. 8 Therefore, the anger of the Lord has fallen on Judah and Jerusalem; he has made them an object of dread and horror(AZ) and scorn,(BA) as you can see with your own eyes. 9 This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity.(BB) 10 Now I intend to make a covenant(BC) with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger(BD) will turn away from us. 11 My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him and serve him,(BE) to minister(BF) before him and to burn incense.”
12 Then these Levites(BG) set to work:
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(BH) son of Joah;
13 from the descendants of Elizaphan,(BI)
Shimri and Jeiel;
from the descendants of Asaph,(BJ)
Zechariah and Mattaniah;
14 from the descendants of Heman,
Jehiel and Shimei;
from the descendants of Jeduthun,
Shemaiah and Uzziel.
15 When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify(BK) the temple of the Lord, as the king had ordered, following the word of the Lord. 16 The priests went into the sanctuary of the Lord to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the Lord. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley.(BL) 17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the Lord. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the Lord itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
18 Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for setting out the consecrated bread, with all its articles. 19 We have prepared and consecrated all the articles(BM) that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the Lord’s altar.”
20 Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the Lord. 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats(BN) as a sin offering[d](BO) for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the Lord. 22 So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and splashed their blood(BP) against the altar. 23 The goats(BQ) for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands(BR) on them. 24 The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone(BS) for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.(BT)
25 He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David(BU) and Gad(BV) the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets. 26 So the Levites stood ready with David’s instruments,(BW) and the priests with their trumpets.(BX)
27 Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the Lord began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments(BY) of David king of Israel. 28 The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering(BZ) was completed.
29 When the offerings were finished, the king and everyone present with him knelt down and worshiped.(CA) 30 King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
31 Then Hezekiah said, “You have now dedicated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices(CB) and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing(CC) brought burnt offerings.
32 The number of burnt offerings(CD) the assembly brought was seventy bulls, a hundred rams and two hundred male lambs—all of them for burnt offerings to the Lord. 33 The animals consecrated as sacrifices amounted to six hundred bulls and three thousand sheep and goats. 34 The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings;(CE) so their relatives the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests had been consecrated,(CF) for the Levites had been more conscientious in consecrating themselves than the priests had been. 35 There were burnt offerings in abundance, together with the fat(CG) of the fellowship offerings(CH) and the drink offerings(CI) that accompanied the burnt offerings.
So the service of the temple of the Lord was reestablished. 36 Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced at what God had brought about for his people, because it was done so quickly.(CJ)
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 28:16 Most Hebrew manuscripts; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint and Vulgate (see also 2 Kings 16:7) king
- 2 Chronicles 28:19 That is, Judah, as frequently in 2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 28:20 Hebrew Tilgath-Pilneser, a variant of Tiglath-Pileser
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 Or purification offering; also in verses 23 and 24
2 Chronicles 28-29
King James Version
2 Chronicles 28-29
King James Version
28 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father:
2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.
3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.
4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Wherefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.
6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.
7 And Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, slew Maaseiah the king's son, and Azrikam the governor of the house, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
8 And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.
9 But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the Lord God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
10 And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?
11 Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.
12 Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,
13 And said unto them, Ye shall not bring in the captives hither: for whereas we have offended against the Lord already, ye intend to add more to our sins and to our trespass: for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.
14 So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.
15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
16 At that time did king Ahaz send unto the kings of Assyria to help him.
17 For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.
19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.
20 And Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.
21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the Lord, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.
23 For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him: and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.
24 And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
25 And in every several city of Judah he made high places to burn incense unto other gods, and provoked to anger the Lord God of his fathers.
26 Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
27 And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem: but they brought him not into the sepulchres of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
29 Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.
3 He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the Lord, and repaired them.
4 And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
5 And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the Lord God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord, and turned their backs.
7 Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
8 Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
11 My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.
12 Then the Levites arose, Mahath the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites: and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehalelel: and of the Gershonites; Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah:
13 And of the sons of Elizaphan; Shimri, and Jeiel: and of the sons of Asaph; Zechariah, and Mattaniah:
14 And of the sons of Heman; Jehiel, and Shimei: and of the sons of Jeduthun; Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
15 And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the Lord: so they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
18 Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.
20 Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the Lord.
21 And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the Lord.
22 So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.
23 And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
24 And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
25 And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.
26 And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
27 And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the Lord began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
28 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
30 Moreover Hezekiah the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed their heads and worshipped.
31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the Lord, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house of the Lord. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
32 And the number of the burnt offerings, which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, an hundred rams, and two hundred lambs: all these were for a burnt offering to the Lord.
33 And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.
34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
35 And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.
36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.
Jóhannesarguðspjall 17
Icelandic Bible
Jóhannesarguðspjall 17
Icelandic Bible
17 1 Þetta hef ég talað til yðar, svo að þér fallið ekki frá.
2 Þeir munu gjöra yður samkunduræka. Já, sú stund kemur, að hver sem líflætur yður þykist veita Guði þjónustu.
3 Þetta munu þeir gjöra, af því þeir þekkja hvorki föðurinn né mig.
4 Þetta hef ég talað til yðar, til þess að þér minnist þess, að ég sagði yður það, þegar stund þeirra kemur. Ég hef ekki sagt yður þetta frá öndverðu, af því ég var með yður.
5 En nú fer ég til hans, sem sendi mig, og enginn yðar spyr mig: ,Hvert fer þú?`
6 En hryggð hefur fyllt hjarta yðar, af því að ég sagði yður þetta.
7 En ég segi yður sannleikann: Það er yður til góðs, að ég fari burt, því ef ég fer ekki, kemur hjálparinn ekki til yðar. En ef ég fer, sendi ég hann til yðar.
8 Þegar hann kemur, mun hann sanna heiminum, hvað er synd og réttlæti og dómur, _
9 syndin er, að þeir trúðu ekki á mig,
10 réttlætið, að ég fer til föðurins, og þér sjáið mig ekki lengur,
11 og dómurinn, að höfðingi þessa heims er dæmdur.
12 Enn hef ég margt að segja yður, en þér getið ekki borið það nú.
13 En þegar hann kemur, andi sannleikans, mun hann leiða yður í allan sannleikann. Hann mun ekki mæla af sjálfum sér, heldur mun hann tala það, sem hann heyrir, og kunngjöra yður það, sem koma á.
14 Hann mun gjöra mig dýrlegan, því af mínu mun hann taka og kunngjöra yður.
15 Allt sem faðirinn á, er mitt. Því sagði ég, að hann tæki af mínu og kunngjörði yður.
16 Innan skamms sjáið þér mig ekki lengur, og aftur innan skamms munuð þér sjá mig."
17 Þá sögðu nokkrir lærisveina hans sín á milli: "Hvað er hann að segja við oss: ,Innan skamms sjáið þér mig ekki, og aftur innan skamms munuð þér sjá mig,` og: ,Ég fer til föðurins`?"
18 Þeir spurðu: "Hvað merkir þetta: ,Innan skamms`? Vér vitum ekki, hvað hann er að fara."
19 Jesús vissi, að þeir vildu spyrja hann, og sagði við þá: "Eruð þér að spyrjast á um það, að ég sagði: ,Innan skamms sjáið þér mig ekki, og aftur innan skamms munuð þér sjá mig`?
20 Sannlega, sannlega segi ég yður: Þér munuð gráta og kveina, en heimurinn mun fagna. Þér munuð verða hryggir, en hryggð yðar mun snúast í fögnuð.
21 Þegar konan fæðir, er hún í nauð, því stund hennar er komin. Þegar hún hefur alið barnið, minnist hún ekki framar þrauta sinna af fögnuði yfir því, að maður er í heiminn borinn.
22 Eins eruð þér nú hryggir, en ég mun sjá yður aftur, og hjarta yðar mun fagna, og enginn tekur fögnuð yðar frá yður.
23 Á þeim degi munuð þér ekki spyrja mig neins. Sannlega, sannlega segi ég yður: Hvað sem þér biðjið föðurinn um í mínu nafni, mun hann veita yður.
24 Hingað til hafið þér einskis beðið í mínu nafni. Biðjið, og þér munuð öðlast, svo að fögnuður yðar verði fullkominn.
25 Þetta hef ég sagt yður í líkingum. Sú stund kemur, að ég tala ekki framar við yður í líkingum, heldur mun ég berum orðum segja yður frá föðurnum.
26 Á þeim degi munuð þér biðja í mínu nafni. Ég segi yður ekki, að ég muni biðja föðurinn fyrir yður,
27 því sjálfur elskar faðirinn yður, þar eð þér hafið elskað mig og trúað, að ég sé frá Guði út genginn.
28 Ég er út genginn frá föðurnum og kominn í heiminn. Ég yfirgef heiminn aftur og fer til föðurins."
29 Lærisveinar hans sögðu: "Nú talar þú berum orðum og mælir enga líking.
30 Nú vitum vér, að þú veist allt og þarft eigi, að nokkur spyrji þig. Þess vegna trúum vér, að þú sért út genginn frá Guði."
31 Jesús svaraði þeim: "Trúið þér nú?
32 Sjá, sú stund kemur og er komin, að þér tvístrist hver til sín og skiljið mig einan eftir. Þó er ég ekki einn, því faðirinn er með mér.
33 Þetta hef ég talað við yður, svo að þér eigið frið í mér. Í heiminum hafið þér þrenging. En verið hughraustir. Ég hef sigrað heiminn."
John 17
New International Version
John 17
New International Version
Jesus Prays to Be Glorified
17 After Jesus said this, he looked toward heaven(A) and prayed:
“Father, the hour has come.(B) Glorify your Son, that your Son may glorify you.(C) 2 For you granted him authority over all people(D) that he might give eternal life(E) to all those you have given him.(F) 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you,(G) the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.(H) 4 I have brought you glory(I) on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.(J) 5 And now, Father, glorify me(K) in your presence with the glory I had with you(L) before the world began.(M)
Jesus Prays for His Disciples
6 “I have revealed you[a](N) to those whom you gave me(O) out of the world. They were yours; you gave them to me and they have obeyed your word. 7 Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you. 8 For I gave them the words you gave me(P) and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you,(Q) and they believed that you sent me.(R) 9 I pray for them.(S) I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me,(T) for they are yours. 10 All I have is yours, and all you have is mine.(U) And glory has come to me through them. 11 I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world,(V) and I am coming to you.(W) Holy Father, protect them by the power of[b] your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one(X) as we are one.(Y) 12 While I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by[c] that name you gave me. None has been lost(Z) except the one doomed to destruction(AA) so that Scripture would be fulfilled.(AB)
13 “I am coming to you now,(AC) but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy(AD) within them. 14 I have given them your word and the world has hated them,(AE) for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.(AF) 15 My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.(AG) 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.(AH) 17 Sanctify them by[d] the truth; your word is truth.(AI) 18 As you sent me into the world,(AJ) I have sent them into the world.(AK) 19 For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified.(AL)
Jesus Prays for All Believers
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one,(AM) Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.(AN) May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.(AO) 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me,(AP) that they may be one as we are one(AQ)— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me(AR) and have loved them(AS) even as you have loved me.
24 “Father, I want those you have given me(AT) to be with me where I am,(AU) and to see my glory,(AV) the glory you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world.(AW)
25 “Righteous Father, though the world does not know you,(AX) I know you, and they know that you have sent me.(AY) 26 I have made you[e] known to them,(AZ) and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them(BA) and that I myself may be in them.”
Footnotes
- John 17:6 Greek your name
- John 17:11 Or Father, keep them faithful to
- John 17:12 Or kept them faithful to
- John 17:17 Or them to live in accordance with
- John 17:26 Greek your name
John 17
King James Version
John 17
King James Version
17 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.
11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.
16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.
19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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