2 Crônicas 35

Ka Hākaritia e Hōhia te Kapenga

1 Nā, ka mahia e Hōhia te Kapenga ki Hiruhārama hei mea ki a Ihowā; patua ana e rātou te Kapenga i te tekau mā whā o te marama tuatahi. 2 I whakatūria anō e ia ngā tohunga ki tā rātou mahi, i whakatenatena anō i a rātou ki ngā mahi o te whare o Ihowā. 3 Ā, i mea ia ki ngā Rīwaiti, ki ngā kaiwhakaako o Īharaira katoa, arā ki te hunga i tapu ki a Ihowā: "Whakatakotoria te āka tapu ki te whare i hangā e Horomona tama a Rāwiri, kīngi o Īharaira; ā, kore ake e tau he pīkaunga ki runga ki ō koutou pokohiwi; me mahi koutou āianei ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua, ki tāna iwi anō, ki a Īharaira. 4 Kia āta rite koutou, tēnei whare, tēnei whare o ō koutou mātua, i ō koutou wehenga, kia rite ki te mea i tuhituhia e Rāwiri kīngi o Īharaira, ki te mea anō i tuhituhia e tāna tama, e Horomona.

5 "Me tū hoki ki te wāhi tapu; kia rite anō ngā wehenga o ngā whare o ngā mātua o ō koutou tuākana, tēina, o ngā tama a te iwi, ā, mā tēnei, mā tēnei, he wehenga o tētahi o ngā whare mātua o ngā Rīwaiti. 6 Ka patu ai i te Kapenga, ka whakatapu ai i a koutou, ka whakapai anō i ō koutou tuākana, tēina, kia rite ai tā rātou mahi ki tā Ihowā kupu, i kōrerotia rā e Mohi."

7 I hōmai anō e Hōhia ki ngā tama a te iwi ētahi reme, ētahi kūao koati i te kāhui, ēnei katoa mō ngā Kapenga, hei mea mā te hunga katoa i reira, e toru tekau mano te maha, e toru mano ngā pūru; nō ngā taonga ēnei a te kīngi.

8 I hōmai anō e āna rangatira, he mea tāpae noa ki te iwi, ki ngā tohunga, ki ngā Rīwaiti. I hōmai e Hirikia, e Hakaraia, e Tehiere, arā e ngā rangatira o te whare o te Atua ki ngā tohunga ētahi kararehe hei mea Kapenga, e rua mano e ono rau, he pūru hoki e toru rau. 9 Nā, ko ōna tēina, ko Konania, ko Hemaia, ko Netanēre, me ngā rangatira o ngā Rīwaiti, me Hahapia, rātou ko Teiere, ko Iotāpara, hōmai ana e rātou ki ngā Rīwaiti hei mea Kapenga, e rima mano o ētahi kararehe anō, e rima rau ngā pūru.

10 Heoi, kua rite ngā mea mō te mahi, ā, kua tū ngā tohunga ki ō rātou tūranga, me ngā Rīwaiti, tēnei wehenga, tēnei wehenga o rātou, ko tā te kīngi hoki i whakahau ai. 11 Nā, ka patua te Kapenga, tāuhiuhia ana e ngā tohunga te toto i hōmai nei ki ō rātou ringa, ā, nā ngā Rīwaiti i tīhore. 12 I wehea hoki e rātou ngā tahunga tinana, hei hoatu ki ngā wehenga o ngā whare o ngā mātua o te iwi, hei whakahere ki a Ihowā, kia rite ai ki te mea i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka a Mohi. Pēnā ana anō rātou ki ngā kau. 13 Ā, tunua ana e rātou te Kapenga ki te ahi, rite tonu tā rātou ki te tikanga. Ko ērā atu mea tapu ia i kōhuatia ki te kōhua, ki te pāta, ki te hōpane, ā, hohoro tonu te tuwha mā te iwi katoa. 14 Ā muri iho ka takā mā rātou ake ko ngā tohunga; i te mahi tonu hoki ngā tohunga, ngā tama a Ārona, i te whakaeke i ngā tahunga tinana, i te ngako ā pō noa; nō reira ko ngā Rīwaiti hei taka mā rātou ko ngā tohunga, ko ngā tama a Ārona.

15 Nā, ko ngā kaiwaiata, ko ngā tama a Āhapa i tō rātou nā tūranga, ko tā Rāwiri hoki ia i whakahau ai, rātou ko Āhapa, ko Hēmana, ko Ierutunu matakite a te kīngi. Nā, ko ngā kaitiaki kūwaha i tēnei kūwaha, i tēnei kūwaha rātou; kāhore he tikanga kia mahue tā rātou mahi, ko ō rātou tuākana hoki, ko ngā Rīwaiti, hei taka mā rātou.

16 Heoi, oti ake te mahi katoa ki a Ihowā i taua rā anō, arā te mahi i te Kapenga, me te whakaeke anō i ngā tahunga tinana ki runga ki te āta a Ihowā, ko tā Kīngi Hōhia hoki i whakahau ai. 17 Nā, i mahia i taua wā e ngā tama a Īharaira i kitea ki reira te Kapenga me te Hākari Taro Rēwenakore, e whitu rā. 18 Kāhore hoki he Kapenga hei rite mō tērā i mahia i roto i a Īharaira, nō ngā rā anō o Hamuera poropiti; kāhore hoki he Kapenga i mahia e ngā kīngi katoa o Īharaira hei rite mō tā Hōhia i mahi ai, rātou ko ngā tohunga, ko ngā Rīwaiti, ko Hūrā katoa, me te hunga o Īharaira i reira, me ngā tāngata anō o Hiruhārama. 19 Nō te tekau mā waru o ngā tau o te kīngitanga o Hōhia i mahia ai tēnei Kapenga.

Te Mutunga o te Kīngitanga o Hōhia

20 I muri i tēnei katoa, i te mea ka oti i a Hōhia te temepara te whakapai ka haere a Neko kīngi o Īhipa ki te tatau ki Karakemihi ki te taha o Uparati, ā, puta ana a Hōhia ki te tū i a ia. 21 Otiia ka tono tāngata mai tērā ki a ia, hei mea, "Ko te aha tā tāua, e te kīngi o Hūrā? Ehara tāku ināianei i te mea ki a koe; engari ki te whare whawhaitia nei e ahau; kua mea hoki te Atua ki ahau kia hohoro tāku. Kei pokanoa koe ki tā te Atua; kei ahau hoki ia, kei whakangaro ia i a koe."

22 Kīhai ia te mata o Hōhia i tahuri atu i a ia. Whakaahua kē ana ia i a ia, he mea kia whawhai rāua; kīhai anō i rongo ki ngā kupu a Neko, nō te māngai o te Atua; ā, haere ana ki te whawhai ki te raorao i Mekiro.

23 Nā, ka kōpere ngā kaikōpere ki a Kīngi Hōhia. Ā, ka mea te kīngi ki āna tāngata, "Kawea atu ahau; he nui rawa hoki tōku tūnga." 24 Nā, ka tangohia ia e āna tāngata i te hāriata, ā, utaina ana ki te tuarua o ana hāriata, kawea atu ana ki Hiruhārama, ā, mate iho ia. Nā, tanumia ana ia ki ngā urupā o ōna mātua. Ā, tangihia ana a Hōhia e Hūrā katoa, e Hiruhārama.

25 Ā, i waiatatia anō e Heremaia he apakura mō Hōhia; i kōrerotia anō a Hōhia e ngā kaiwaiata, e ngā tāne, e ngā wāhine, i ā rātou apakura, ā taea noatia tēnei rā; ā, waiho iho e rātou hei tikanga mā Īharaira. Nanā, kei roto nā i ngā Waiata Tangi.

26 Nā, ko ērā atu meatanga a Hōhia, me āna mahi atawhai, rite tonu ki ngā mea i tuhituhia ki te Ture a Ihowā, 27 ko āna meatanga ō mua, ō muri, nanā, kei te tuhituhi i te pukapuka o ngā kīngi o Īharaira, o Hūrā.

1 And Josiah kept a passover unto Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month. 2 And he set the priests in their offices, and encouraged them to the service of the house of Jehovah. 3 And he said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, that were holy unto Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden upon your shoulders. Now serve Jehovah your God, and his people Israel; 4 and prepare yourselves after your fathers’ houses by your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son. 5 And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a father’s house of the Levites. 6 And kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, to do according to the word of Jehovah by Moses.

7 And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover-offerings, unto all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance. 8 And his princes gave for a freewill-offering unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover-offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen. 9 Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for the passover-offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.

10 So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment. 11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of their hand, and the Levites flayed them. 12 And they removed the burnt-offerings, that they might give them according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of the children of the people, to offer unto Jehovah, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen. 13 And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: and the holy offerings boiled they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and carried them quickly to all the children of the people. 14 And afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering the burnt-offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron. 15 And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

16 So all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings upon the altar of Jehovah, according to the commandment of king Josiah. 17 And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. 18 And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 19 In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the temple, Neco king of Egypt went up to fight against Carchemish by the Euphrates: and Josiah went out against him. 21 But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I come not against thee this day, but against the house wherewith I have war; and God hath commanded me to make haste: forbear thee from meddling with God, who is with me, that he destroy thee not. 22 Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo. 23 And the archers shot at king Josiah; and the king said to his servants, Have me away; for I am sore wounded. 24 So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. 25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. 26 Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his good deeds, according to that which is written in the law of Jehovah, 27 and his acts, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.