2 Crônicas 28

1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He didn’t do that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, like David his father, 2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals. 3 Moreover he burned incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel. 4 He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

5 Therefore Yahweh his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria. They struck him, and carried away from him a great multitude of captives, and brought them to Damascus. He was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who struck him with a great slaughter. 6 For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers. 7 Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the ruler of the house, and Elkanah who was next to the king. 8 The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria. 9 But a prophet of Yahweh was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria, and said to them, "Behold, because Yahweh, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has reached up to heaven. 10 Now you intend to degrade the children of Judah and Jerusalem as male and female slaves for yourselves. Aren’t there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God? 11 Now hear me therefore, and send back the captives that you have taken captive from your brothers, for the fierce wrath of Yahweh is on you." 12 Then some of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against those who came from the war, 13 and said to them, "You must not bring in the captives here, for you intend that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our guilt; for our guilt is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel."

14 So the armed men left the captives and the plunder before the princes and all the assembly. 15 The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him. 17 For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives. 18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and also Gimzo and its villages; and they lived there. 19 For Yahweh brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, because he acted without restraint in Judah and trespassed severely against Yahweh. 20 Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came to him and gave him trouble, but didn’t strengthen him. 21 For Ahaz took away a portion out of Yahweh’s house, and out of the house of the king and of the princes, and gave it to the king of Assyria; but it didn’t help him.

22 In the time of his distress, he trespassed yet more against Yahweh, this same King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him. He said, "Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, I will sacrifice to them, that they may help me." But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 24 Ahaz gathered together the vessels of God’s house, cut the vessels of God’s house in pieces, and shut up the doors of Yahweh’s house; and he made himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem. 25 In every city of Judah he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked Yahweh, the God of his fathers, to anger.

26 Now the rest of his acts, and all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 27 Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

Ko Kīngi Ahata o Hūrā

1 E rua tekau ngā tau o Ahata i tōna kīngitanga, ā, tekau mā ono ngā tau i kīngi ai ia ki Hiruhārama. Kīhai hoki ia i mahi i te tika ki tā Ihowā titiro, kīhai i pērā me tōna pāpā, me Rāwiri. 2 I haere hoki ia i ngā ara o ngā kīngi o Īharaira, i hanga anō i ētahi whakapakoko whakarewa mō ngā Paara. 3 I tahu whakakakara anō ia ki te raorao o te tama a Hinomo, tahuna ana anō e ia āna tamariki ki te ahi; rite tonu tāna ki ngā mea whakarihariha a ngā iwi i peia nei e Ihowā i te aroaro o ngā tama a Īharaira. 4 I patu whakahere anō ia, i tahu whakakakara ki ngā wāhi tiketike, ki ngā pukepuke, ki raro i ngā rākau kōuru nui katoa.

He Pakanga ki Hīria me Īharaira

5 Nā reira i tukua ai ia e Ihowā, e tōna Atua ki te ringa o te kīngi o Hīria; ā, patua ana ia e rātou, he tini anō hoki ngā pārau o rātou i whakaraua atu, kawea ana ki Ramahiku.

I tukua atu anō ia ki te ringa o te kīngi o Īharaira, patua iho e ia, he nui te parekura. 6 Kotahi hoki te rau e rua tekau mano i patua e Peka tama a Remaria ki Hūrā i te rā kotahi, he hunga māia katoa; mō rātou i whakarere i a Ihowā, i te Atua o ō rātou mātua. 7 Nā, i patua e tētahi mārohirohi o Ēparaima, e Tīkiri, a Maaheia tama a te kīngi, a Atarikama, rangatira o te whare, me Erekana, tō muri i te kīngi. 8 Whakaraua atu ana e ngā tama a Īharaira e rua rau mano o ō rātou tuākana, tēina, ngā wāhine, ngā tamariki, ngā tamāhine, nui atu hoki ō rātou taonga i pāhuatia e rātou; kawea atu ana e rātou ngā taonga ki Hamaria.

Te Poropiti Orere

9 Otiia he poropiti tā te Atua i reira, ko Orere tōna ingoa; ā, ka puta ia ki te whakatau i te taua e haere ana mai ki Hamaria, ka mea ki a rātou, "Nanā, he riri nō Ihowā, nō te Atua o ō koutou mātua, ki a Hūrā i hōmai ai rātou e ia ki ō koutou ringa; patua iho e koutou, tutuki noa te riri ki te rangi. 10 Heoi, kei te mea koutou kia pēhia ki raro ngā tama o Hūrā, o Hiruhārama hei pononga tāne, hei pononga wāhine mā koutou; engari kāhore rānei i a koutou nā ō koutou hē hoki ki a Ihowā ki tō koutou Atua? 11 Tēnā, whakarongo ki ahau, whakahokia ngā whakarau i whakaraua mai koutou i ō koutou tuākana, tēina; nō te mea kei te mura te riri o Ihowā, o tō koutou Atua, ki a koutou."

12 Kātahi ka whakatika ētahi o ngā upoko o ngā tama a Ēparaima, a Atāria tama a Iehohanana, a Perekia tama a Mehiremoto, a Hetekia tama a Harumu, rātou ko Amaha tama a Hararai, ka tū atu ki te hunga i haere mai nei i te whawhai. 13 Ā, ka mea ki a rātou, "Kei kawea mai e koutou ngā whakarau nā ki konei; ko tā koutou hoki e mea nā hei hōmai ki a tātou he hē ki a Ihowā, e whakanekehia ake ai ō tātou hara me tō tātou hē. He nui hoki tō tātou hē, ā, he riri tēnei te mura nei ki a Īharaira."

14 Heoi, whakarērea iho e ngā tāngata i ngā patu ngā whakarau, me ngā taonga i te aroaro o ngā rangatira rātou ko te huihui katoa. 15 Nā, ka whakatika ngā tāngata i whakahuatia ō rātou ingoa, ka mau ki ngā whakarau, whakakākahuria ana e rātou ki ngā taonga ngā mea kākahukore o rātou. Whakakākahuria ana e rātou, whakawhiwhi rawa ki te hū, hoatu ana he mea hei kai, hei inu, whakawahia ana, kawea ana ngā mea kahakore katoa o rātou i runga i te kāihe, ā tae noa ki Heriko, ki te pā nīkau ki ō rātou tuākana, tēina. Nā, hoki ana rātou ki Hamaria.

Ka Īnoi a Ahata ki a Ahiria hei Āwhina

16 I taua wā ka unga tāngata a Kīngi Ahata ki ngā kīngi o Ahiria hei āwhina mōna. 17 Nō te mea kua tae mai anō ngā Ēromi; patua iho e rātou a Hūrā, whakaraua atu ana ētahi whakarau. 18 Kua whakaekea hoki e ngā Pirihitini ngā pā o te raorao, o te taha ki te tonga o Hūrā, ā, riro ana i a rātou a Petehemehe, a Atarono, a Kereroto, a Hoko me ōna pā ririki, a Timina me ōna pā ririki, a Kimito me ōna pā ririki; nohoia iho e rātou. 19 Nā Ihowā hoki i whakaiti a Hūrā, mō tā Ahata, mō tā te kīngi o Īharaira; mō tāna mahi wairangi i roto i a Hūrā, nui atu hoki tōna hē ki a Ihowā. 20 Nā, ka haere a Tirikata Pirinehere kīngi o Ahiria ki a ia, ka whakararuraru i a ia, kīhai hoki i whakakaha i a ia. 21 I tangohia hoki e Ahata tētahi wāhi i roto i te whare o Ihowā, i te whare anō o te kīngi rātou ko ngā rangatira, ā, hoatu ana ki te kīngi o Ahiria; kīhai anō tērā i āwhina i a ia.

Ngā Hara a Ahata

22 Nā, i te wā i hē ai ia, ka tohe anō ia ki te hē ki a Ihowā, taua kīngi a Ahata. 23 I patu whakahere hoki ia ki ngā atua o Ramahiku i patu nei i a ia; i kī hoki ia, "Ko ngā atua o ngā kīngi o Hīria kei te āwhina i a rātou, nā, me patu whakahere ahau ki a rātou, kia āwhina ai rātou i ahau." Otiia, ko rātou anō hei whakangoikore i a ia, i a Īharaira katoa anō hoki.

24 Nā, ka huihuia e Ahata ngā oko o te whare o te Atua, tapatapahia ana e ia ngā oko o te whare o te Atua, ā, tūtakina ana e ia ngā tatau o te whare o Ihowā. I hangā anō e ia ētahi āta māna ki ngā koki katoa o Hiruhārama. 25 I hangā anō e ia ki ngā pā o Hūrā ētahi wāhi tiketike hei tahu whakakakara ki ngā atua kē, whakapātaritaria ana e ia a Ihowā, te Atua o ōna mātua.

26 Nā, ko ērā meatanga atu ana, ko āna meatanga katoa ō mua, ō muri, nanā, kua oti te tuhituhi ki te pukapuka o ngā kīngi o Hūrā rāua ko Īharaira. 27 Nā, kua moe a Ahata ki ōna mātua, ā, tanumia iho ki te pā, ki Hiruhārama; otiia kīhai i kawea ki ngā tanumanga o ngā kīngi o Īharaira; ā, ko Hetekia, ko tāna tama, te kīngi i muri i a ia.