2 Crônicas 23

1 In the seventh year, Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds—Azariah the son of Jeroham, Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, Azariah the son of Obed, Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri—into a covenant with him. 2 They went around in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem. 3 All the assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s house. Jehoiada*23:3 Hebrew He said to them, "Behold, the king’s son must reign, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the sons of David. 4 This is the thing that you must do: a third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds. 5 A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house. 6 But let no one come into Yahweh’s house except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions. 7 The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out."

8 So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. They each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift. 9 Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, bucklers, and shields that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house. 10 He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king. 11 Then they brought out the king’s son, put the crown on him, gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king!"

12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into Yahweh’s house. 13 Then she looked, and behold, the king stood by his pillar at the entrance, with the captains and the trumpeters by the king. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets. The singers also played musical instruments, and led the singing of praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and said, "Treason! treason!"

14 Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds who were set over the army, and said to them, "Bring her out between the ranks; and whoever follows her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Don’t kill her in Yahweh’s house." 15 So they made way for her. She went to the entrance of the horse gate to the king’s house; and they killed her there.

16 Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people. 17 All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. 18 Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered. 19 He set the gatekeepers at the gates of Yahweh’s house, that no one who was unclean in anything should enter in. 20 He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom. 21 So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. They had slain Athaliah with the sword.

Te Aranga ki a Aratia

1 Nā, i te whitu o ngā tau ka whakanuia e Iehoiara he kaha mōna; i riro hoki i a ia ngā rangatira rau, a Atāria tama a Ierohama, a Ihimaera tama a Iehohanana, a Atāria tama a Ōpere, a Maaheia tama a Araia, a Erihapata tama a Tīkiri, hei hoa mōna, mea rawa ki te kawenata. 2 Nā, hāereerea ana e rātou a Hūrā ā taka noa, huihuia ana e rātou ngā Rīwaiti i roto i ngā pā katoa o Hūrā, rātou ko ngā upoko o ngā whare o ngā mātua o Īharaira, ā, haere ana rātou ki Hiruhārama. 3 Nā, ka whakarite kawenata te whakaminenga katoa ki te kīngi i roto i te whare o te Atua.

I mea anō ia ki a rātou, "Nanā, hei kīngi te tama a te kīngi, hei pērā me tā Ihowā i kōrero ai mō ngā tama a Rāwiri. 4 Ko tēnei tā koutou e mea ai: ko te tuatoru o ngā wehenga o koutou e haere mai ana i te hāpati, arā o ngā tohunga, o ngā Rīwaiti, hei kaitiaki mō ngā kūwaha; 5 ko tētahi o ngā wehenga e toru hei te whare o te kīngi; ko tētahi o ngā wehenga e toru hei te Kūwaha o te Tūranga; ko te iwi katoa hoki hei ngā marae o te whare o Ihowā. 6 Kaua ia tētahi e tomo ki te whare o Ihowā, ko ngā tohunga anake, rātou ko te hunga o ngā Rīwaiti e minita ana; ko rātou e haere ki roto, nō te mea he tapu rātou. Ko te iwi katoa ia hei tiaki i ngā mea a Ihowā. 7 Nā, me karapoti te kīngi e ngā Rīwaiti ā tawhio noa; hei tōna ringa anō te patu a tēnei, a tēnei; ā, ki te tomo tētahi ki te whare, me whakamate. Hei te taha tonu koutou o te kīngi i tōna haerenga mai, i tōna haerenga atu."

8 Nā, ka meatia e ngā Rīwaiti, e Hūrā katoa ngā mea katoa i whakahaua e Iehoiara tohunga; ā, ka mau rātou ki āna tāngata, ki āna tāngata, ki ngā mea e haere ana ki roto i te hāpati, ki te hunga anō e haere atu ana ki waho i te hāpati; kīhai hoki a Iehoiara tohunga i tuku i ngā wehenga kia haere. 9 Ā, i hōmai e Iehoiara tohunga ki ngā rangatira rau ngā tao, ngā pukupuku, me ngā whakapuru tao a Kīngi Rāwiri; i roto hoki ērā i te whare o te Atua. 10 I whakatūria anō e ia te iwi katoa, me ā rātou patu i te ringa o tēnei, o tēnei, i te koki ki matau o te whare, tae noa ki te koki ki mauī o te whare, ki ngā taha o te āta, o te whare, hei karapoti mō te kīngi.

11 Kātahi ka whakaputaina e rātou te tama a te kīngi, pōtaea iho ki a ia te karauna; ā, hōmai ana te whakaaturanga ki a ia, nā, whakakīngitia ana ia e rātou; ā, nā Iehoiara rātou ko āna tama ia i whakawahi, me tā rātou karanga, "Kia ora te kīngi!"

Tā Atāria Kōhurutanga

12 Ā, nō te rongonga o Atāria i te ngē o te iwi e rere ana, e whakamoemiti ana ki te kīngi, ka haere ia ki te iwi, ki te whare o Ihowā. 13 Ā, ka titiro ia, nā, ko te kīngi e tū ana i te taha o tōna pou i te tomokanga ko ngā rangatira anō me ngā tētere i te taha o te kīngi; ā, ko te iwi katoa o te whenua e koa ana, e whakatangi ana i ngā tētere; ko ngā kaiwaiata hoki e whakatangi ana i ngā mea rangi waiata, e ārahi ana i te waiata whakamoemiti. Kātahi ka haehae a Atāria i ōna kākahu, ka karanga, "He hē, he hē, te whakatakotoria nei!"

14 Nā, ka whakaputaina e Iehoiara tohunga ngā rangatira rau, ngā kaitohutohu ope ki waho, ā, ka mea ia ki a rātou, "Mauria mai ia ki waenganui i ngā rārangi; ā, ko te tangata e whai i muri i a ia, whakamatea ki te hoari." I mea hoki te tohunga, "Kaua ia e whakamatea i roto i te whare o Ihowā." 15 Heoi, whakawāteatia ana he haerenga mōna; nā, ka tae ia ki te tomokanga o te Kūwaha Hōiho i te taha o te whare o te kīngi, whakamatea iho ki reira.

16 Nā, ka whakaritea e Iehoiara he kawenata, he mea nāna, nā te iwi katoa rātou ko te kīngi, kia meinga rātou hei iwi mā Ihowā. 17 Nā, haere ana te iwi katoa ki te whare o Paara, wāhia iho e rātou; mongamonga noa i a rātou āna āta, ōna āhua; patua iho hoki e rātou a Matana tohunga o Paara ki mua i ngā āta.

18 I whakarite kaitirotiro anō a Iehoiara mō te whare o Ihowā, he mea tuku ki ngā tohunga, ki ngā Rīwaiti, i wehea nei e Rāwiri ki roto ki te whare o Ihowā hei whakaeke i ngā tahunga tinana a Ihowā, ko te mea hoki ia i tuhituhia i roto i te ture a Mohi; me te koa anō rātou, me te waiata; ko tā Rāwiri hoki ia i whakarite ai. 19 I whakatūria anō e ia he kaitiaki kūwaha mō ngā kūwaha o te whare o Ihowā, kei haere ki roto te tangata e poke ana i tētahi mea.

20 Nā, tīkina ana e ia ngā rangatira rau, ngā tāngata nunui, rātou ko ngā kāwana o te iwi, ko te iwi katoa anō hoki o te whenua, ā mauria iho ana e rātou te kīngi i te whare o Ihowā ki raro. Nā, haere ana rātou nā tō Runga Kūwaha ki te whare o te kīngi, ā, whakanohoia ana te kīngi ki te torōna o te kīngitanga. 21 Heoi, koa tonu te iwi katoa o te whenua, ā, mārire noa iho te pā; ā, patua ana e rātou a Atāria ki te hoari.