2 Crônicas 32

1 After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself. 2 When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem, 3 he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him. 4 Then many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?"

5 He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance. 6 He set captains of war over the people, gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying, 7 "Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him. 8 An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles." The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

9 After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was attacking Lachish, and all his forces were with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying, 10 Sennacherib king of Assyria says, "In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem? 11 Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria’? 12 Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it’? 13 Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? 14 Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand? 15 Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?"

16 His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God and against his servant Hezekiah. 17 He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, "As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand." 18 They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them, that they might take the city. 19 They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

20 Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

21 Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, the leaders, and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own body*32:21 i.e., his own sons killed him there with the sword. 22 Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side. 23 Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.

24 In those days Hezekiah was terminally ill, and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign. 25 But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem. 26 However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

27 Hezekiah had exceedingly great riches and honor. He provided himself with treasuries for silver, for gold, for precious stones, for spices, for shields, and for all kinds of valuable vessels; 28 also storehouses for the increase of grain, new wine, and oil; and stalls for all kinds of animals, and flocks in folds. 29 Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions. 30 This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

31 However, concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him to test him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

32 Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and his good deeds, behold, they are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 33 Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent to the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

Ka Takutakuhia e Ahiria a Hiruhārama

1 I muri i ēnei mea, i te mea ka āta takoto, ka haere mai a Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria, tae tonu mai ki Hūrā, whakapaea ana e ia ngā pā taiepa; i mea hoki ia kia riro atu i a ia. 2 Ā, nō te kitenga o Hetekia kua tae mai a Henakeripi, e anga ana hoki ki te whawhai ki Hiruhārama, 3 ka whakatakoto whakaaro ki āna rangatira, ki āna mārohirohi, kia purua ngā wai o ngā puna i waho o te pā; ā, ko rātou ōna hoa mahi. 4 Heoi, nui atu te iwi i huihui mai, ā, purua ana e rātou ngā puna katoa, me te awa e rere ana i waenganui o te whenua; i kī hoki rātou, "He aha kia haere mai ngā kīngi o Ahiria, kia nui te wai e kitea e rātou?" 5 Nā, ka whakapakari ia, ā, hangā ana e ia te taiepa katoa i pakaru, ā, eke noa ki ngā pourewa; me tētahi atu taiepa anō i waho, i whakakahangia anō e ia a Miro i te pā o Rāwiri; ā, he tini ngā pere me ngā whakangungu rākau i hangā e ia.

6 I whakaritea anō e ia he rangatira whawhai mō te iwi; ā, ka huihui i a rātou ki a ia ki te wāhi whānui i te kūwaha o te pā. Nā, ka kōrero whakamārie ia ki a rātou, ka mea, 7 "Kia kaha, kia māia, kaua e wehi, kaua e pāwera ki te kīngi o Ahiria, ki tāna ope katoa; hira ake hoki tō tātou i tōna. 8 Ko tōna he ringa kikokiko; ko tō tātou ia, ko Ihowā, ko tō tātou Atua hei āwhina mō tātou, hei whawhai i tā tātou whawhai." Nā, okioki tonu te iwi ki ngā kupu a Hetekia kīngi o Hūrā.

9 I muri i tēnei ka ungā mai āna tāngata e Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria ki Hiruhārama; ko ia hoki i te whakapae i Rakihi, ā, ko tōna kīngitanga katoa i a ia; hei mea ki a Hetekia kīngi o Hūrā, ki a Hūrā katoa anō i Hiruhārama:

10 "Ko te kupu tēnei a Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria: E whakawhirinaki ana koutou ki te aha, i a koutou e whakapaea nā i Hiruhārama? 11 He teka ianei he whakapati tā Hetekia i a koutou, he mea kia tukua ai koutou ki te mate i te kore kai, i te kore wai, i a ia e kī rā, ‘Tērā tātou e whakaorangia e Ihowā, e tō tātou Atua i te ringa o te kīngi o Ahiria’? 12 He teka ianei nā taua Hetekia nei i whakakore ōna wāhi tiketike, me āna āta, ā, kī ana ia ki a Hūrā, ki Hiruhārama, mea ana, ‘Hei mua i te āta kotahi koutou koropiko ai, ki runga anō i tēnei koutou tahu ai i te whakakakara’?

13 "Kāhore rānei koutou e mōhio ki ngā mea i mea ai ahau me ōku mātua ki ngā iwi katoa o ngā whenua nei? I taea rānei e ngā atua o ngā iwi o aua whenua te whakaora tō rātou whenua i tōku ringa? 14 Ko wai o ngā atua o ēnei iwi i hunā nei e ōku mātua i kaha ki te whakaora i tāna iwi i roto i tōku ringa, e kaha ai tō koutou Atua ki te whakaora i a koutou i roto i tōku ringa? 15 Nā, kei tinihangatia koutou e Hetekia, kei whakapati hoki ia i a koutou, kei pērā me tāna nā. Kaua hoki e whakapono ki a ia; nō te mea kīhai i kaha te atua o tētahi iwi, o tētahi kīngitanga rānei ki te whakaora i tāna iwi i roto i tōku ringa, i te ringa anō o ōku mātua. E kore rawa tō koutou Atua e whakaora i a koutou i roto i tōku ringa!"

16 Tērā atu anō tā āna tāngata i kōrero kino ai mō te Atua, mō Ihowā, mō tāna tangata anō, mō Hetekia. 17 I tuhituhia anō e ia ētahi pukapuka hei whākorekore mō Ihowā, mō te Atua o Īharaira, hei kōrero kino mōna; i kī ia, "Kīhai nei ngā atua o ngā iwi o ngā whenua i kaha ki te whakaora i ō rātou iwi i roto i tōku ringa, e kore anō hoki te Atua o Hetekia e whakaora i tāna iwi i roto i tōku ringa." 18 Nā, nui atu tā rātou karanga i te reo Hūrai ki te iwi o Hiruhārama i runga i te taiepa hei whakawehi i a rātou, hei whakararuraru i a rātou, he mea kia riro ai i a rātou te pā. 19 Nā, ko tā rātou kōrero mō te Atua o Hiruhārama, rite tonu ki tā rātou mō ngā atua o ngā iwi o te whenua, mō ngā mahi a te ringa tangata.

Te Whati me te Matenga o Henakeripi

20 Nā, kei te īnoi, kei te karanga ki te rangi a Kīngi Hetekia rāua ko te poropiti, ko Ihāia tama a Āmoho, mō tēnei mea. 21 Nā, ko te tukunga mai a Ihowā i te anahera, hautopea atu ana e ia ngā toa mārohirohi katoa rātou ko ngā rangatira, ko ngā tāngata nunui, i te puni o te kīngi o Ahiria. Heoi, hoki ana ia ki tōna whenua; whakamā ana tōna mata. Haere ana ia ki te whare o tōna atua, nā, patua iho ia i reira ki te hoari e te hunga i puta i ōna whēkau.

22 Heoi, whakaorangia ake a Hetekia me ngā tāngata o Hiruhārama e Ihowā i te ringa o Henakeripi kīngi o Ahiria, i te ringa anō o ērā katoa, ā, ārahina ana rātou e ia i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha. 23 Ā, he tokomaha ki te kawe i te hākari ki a Ihowā, ki Hiruhārama, i ngā mea utu nui anō ki a Hetekia kīngi o Hūrā. Nā, kake tonu ake ia i reira i te tirohanga a ngā iwi katoa.

Te Māuiuitanga me te Whakahī o Hetekia

24 I aua rā ka mate a Hetekia, whano marere. Nā, ko tāna īnoinga ki a Ihowā, ka kōrero tērā ki a ia, ka hōmai anō i te tohu ki a ia. 25 Otiia kīhai i rite ki te atawhainga ki a ia tā Hetekia utu. I whakakake hoki tōna ngākau; nā, kua takoto he riri mōna, mō Hūrā, mō Hiruhārama. 26 Otiia i whakaiti a Hetekia i a ia, mō tōna ngākau i whakakake rā, a ia, me ngā tāngata anō o Hiruhārama, ā, kīhai te riri o Ihowā i puta ki a rātou i ngā rā o Hetekia.

Te Tōnuitanga me ngā Whakatūtukitanga a Hetekia

27 Nā, nui atu te taonga me te korōria i a Hetekia; ā, hangā ana e ia he toa taonga mō te hiriwa, mō te kōura, mō ngā kōhatu utu nui, mō ngā mea kakara, mō ngā whakangungu rākau, mō ngā mea katoa e matenuitia ana; 28 he toa anō mō ngā hua o te wīti, o te wāina, o te hinu, me ngā tūnga mō ia kararehe, mō ia kararehe, me ngā taiepa mō ngā kāhui hipi. 29 I hangā anō e ia ētahi pā mōna, ā, he tini anō ngā kāhui hipi, kau hoki; nui atu hoki te taonga i hōmai e te Atua ki a ia.

30 Nā, taua Hetekia anō i puru tō runga putanga o te wai o Kihona; whakatikaia tonutia iho e ia ki te taha ki te hauāuru o te pā o Rāwiri. Oti pai ana hoki i a Hetekia āna mahi katoa. 31 I ngā karere ia a ngā rangatira o Papurōna i unga mai nei ki a ia ki te ui ki te merekara i puta ki te whenua, i mahue ia i te Atua, kia whakamātauria ai ia, kia mōhiotia ai ngā mea katoa i tōna ngākau.

32 Nā, ko ērā atu meatanga a Hetekia, me āna mahi atawhai, nanā, kua oti te tuhituhi ki te kite a Ihāia poropiti tama a Āmoho, ki te pukapuka o ngā kīngi o Hūrā, o Īharaira. 33 Nā, kua moe a Hetekia ki ōna mātua, ā, tanumia iho ki tō runga rawa o ngā urupā o ngā tama a Rāwiri; ā, i tōna matenga ka whakakorōriatia ia e Hūrā katoa, rātou ko ngā tāngata o Hiruhārama. Ā, ko tāna tama, ko Mānahi, te kīngi i muri i a ia.