2 Reis 25

Te Hinganga o Hiruhārama

1 Nā, i te iwa o ngā tau o tōna kīngitanga, i te tekau o ngā marama i te tekau o ngā rā o te marama, ka tae mai a Nepukaneha kīngi o Papurōna, a ia me tāna ope katoa, ki Hiruhārama, ā, nohoia ana e ia a reira; ā, hangā ana e rātou ētahi taumaihi mō reira ā tawhio noa.

2 Heoi, ka whakapaea te pā ā tae noa ki te tekau mā tahi o ngā tau o Kīngi Terekia. 3 I te iwa o ngā rā o te whā o ngā marama he nui te matekai o te pā, ā, kāhore he taro mā ngā tāngata o te whenua. 4 Kātahi ka wāhia te pā, ā, rere ana ngā tāngata whawhai katoa i te pō nā te ara o te kūwaha i waenganui o ngā taiepa e rua, nā tērā i te kāri a te kīngi; he mea karapoti hoki te pā e ngā Karari; ko te kīngi i haere nā te Arapa. 5 Otiia i whai te ope a ngā Karari i te kīngi, ā, ka mau ia ki ngā mānia i Heriko; ā, ko tāna ope katoa i marara noa atu i a ia.

6 Nā, ka mau i a rātou te kīngi, ka kawea ki te kīngi o Papurōna ki Ripira; ā, ka kōrerotia te whakawā mōna. 7 Nā, ka whakamatea e rātou ngā tama a Terekia i tōna aroaro, whakamatapōtia iho ngā kanohi o Terekia, ā, herea ana ia ki te mekameka, kawea ana ki Papurōna.

Te Turakina o te Temepara

8 I te rima o ngā marama, i te whitu o ngā rā o te marama, arā i te tekau mā iwa o ngā tau o Kīngi Nepukaneha, kīngi o Papurōna, ka haere mai a Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki, he tangata nā te kīngi o Papurōna, ki Hiruhārama. 9 Nā, ka tahuna e ia te whare o Ihowā, me te whare o te kīngi, me ngā whare katoa o Hiruhārama, tae noa ki ngā whare nunui katoa; tahuna ana e ia ki te ahi. 10 Wāhia iho hoki ngā taiepa o Hiruhārama ā, whawhe noa e te ope katoa o ngā Karari, i haere mai nei rātou ko te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki. 11 Nā, ko te mōrehu o te iwi i mahue i te pā, me te hunga i papahoro atu, i taka atu rā ki te kīngi o Papurōna, me ngā toenga atu o taua huihui, i whakahekea e Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki. 12 I waiho ia e te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki ētahi o ngā rawakore o te whenua hei kaimahi wāina, hei kaimahi whenua.

13 Nā, ko ngā pou parāhi i te whare o Ihowā, me ngā tūranga, me te moana parāhi i te whare o Ihowā, wāwāhia ana e ngā Karari, ā, maua atu ana e rātou te parāhi o aua mea ki Papurōna. 14 I maua atu anō e rātou ngā pāta, me ngā koko pungarehu, me ngā kuku, me ngā koko, me ngā oko parāhi katoa mō ā rātou mahi tapu. 15 Ko ngā oko ngārahu anō, ko ngā peihana; ko ngā mea kōura, ko ngā mea hiriwa, tēnā he kōura, tēnā he hiriwa, tangohia ake e te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki.

16 Ko ngā pou e rua, ko te moana kotahi, me ngā tūranga e rua i hangā e Horomona mō te whare o Ihowā; kāhore he pāunatanga o te parāhi o ēnei oko katoa. 17 Ko te tiketike o tētahi o ngā pou kotahi tekau mā waru ngā whatīanga, he parāhi te whakapaipai o runga; ā, ko te tiketike o te whakapaipai e toru ngā whatīanga; he parāhi katoa te mea i whiria, me ngā pamekaranete o te whakapaipai ā whawhe noa. Rite tonu hoki ki ēnei tō te rua o ngā pou, he mea whiri anō tōna.

Ka Mauria ngā Iwi o Hūrā ki a Papurōna

18 I tangohia anō e te rangatira o ngā kaitiaki a Heraia, te tino tohunga, rātou ko te tohunga tuarua, ko Tepania, ko ngā kaitiaki tokotoru o te kūwaha. 19 I tangohia anō e ia i te pā tētahi kaiwhakahaere, ko te rangatira o ngā tāngata whawhai; tokorima o ngā tāngata nō te aroaro pū ake o te kīngi, he hunga i rokohanga ki roto ki te pā; me te kaituhituhi, arā te rangatira o te ope, te kaihuihui i ngā tāngata o te whenua; me ngā tāngata e ono tekau o te iwi o te whenua i rokohanga e ia ki roto ki te pā. 20 Nā, ka mau a Neputarārana rangatira o ngā kaitiaki ki a rātou, kawea ana ki te kīngi o Papurōna, ki Ripira. 21 Nā, patua ana rātou e te kīngi o Papurōna, whakamatea ana ki Ripira, ki te whenua o Hāmata. Heoi, whakahekea atu ana a Hūrā i tōna oneone.

Ko Keraria, ko te Kāwana o Hūrā

22 Nā, ko te hunga i mahue ki te whenua o Hūrā, ko ngā mea i mahue i a Nepukaneha kīngi o Papurōna, meinga ana e ia ko Keraria tama a Ahikama tama a Hapana hei kāwana mō rātou. 23 Nā, i te rongonga o ngā rangatira ope katoa, o rātou ko ā rātou tāngata, kua meinga e te kīngi o Papurōna a Keraria hei kāwana, ka haere mai rātou ki a Keraria ki Mihipa, arā a Ihimaera tama a Netania, a Hohanana tama a Karea, a Heraia tama a Tanahumete Netopati, a Iaatania tama a tētahi Maakati, me ā rātou tāngata.

24 Nā, ka oati a Keraria ki a rātou, ki ā rātou tāngata hoki, ka mea ki a rātou, "Kaua e wehi, he mea mō ngā pononga o ngā Karari; e noho i te whenua, e mahi ki te kīngi o Papurōna, ā, ka whai pai koutou."

25 Otiia i te whitu o ngā marama ka haere mai a Ihimaera tama a Netania tama a Erihama, he momo kīngi, rātou ko ōna hoa, kotahi tekau tāngata, ā, patua iho a Keraria, mate rawa, rātou ko ōna hoa, ko ngā Hūrai, ko ngā Karari, i Mihipa. 26 Nā, ka whakatika te iwi katoa, te iti me te rahi, rātou ko ngā rangatira ope, ā, haere ana ki Īhipa. I wehi hoki rātou i ngā Karari.

Ka Wetekina a Iehoiakini i te Whare Herehere

27 Nā, i te toru tekau mā whitu o ngā tau o te whakahekenga atu o Iehoiakini kīngi o Hūrā, i te tekau mā rua o ngā marama, i te rua tekau mā whitu o ngā rā o te marama, ka whakaarahia e Ewiri Meroraka kīngi o Papurōna, i te tau i kīngi ai ia, te matenga o Iehoiakini kīngi o Hūrā i roto i te whare herehere. 28 Ā, he pai āna kōrero ki a ia, nekehia ake ana e ia tōna torōna ki runga ake i ngā torōna o ngā kīngi i tōna taha i Papurōna. 29 Ko ngā kākahu o tōna hereherenga i whakawhitia e ia; ā, kai taro ana ia i tōna aroaro i ngā rā katoa i ora ai ia. 30 Ā, ko te wāhi māna, he mea pūmau, he mea hōmai e te kīngi ki a ia i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, i ngā rā katoa i ora ai ia.

1 And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about. 2 So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land. 4 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 5 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 6 Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7 And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

8 Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem. 9 And he burnt the house of Jehovah, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire. 10 And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about. 11 And the residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive. 12 But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

13 And the pillars of brass that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases and the brazen sea that were in the house of Jehovah, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. 14 And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. 15 And the firepans, and the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these vessels was without weight. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with network.

18 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold: 19 and out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city. 20 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

22 And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor. 23 Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 24 And Gedaliah sware to them and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you. 25 But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, so that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. 26 And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; 28 and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 29 and changed his prison garments. And Jehoiachin did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life: 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.