2 Reis 25

1 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it. 2 So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe 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 around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah. 5 But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him. 6 Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him. 7 They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, 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, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. 9 He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. He burned every great house with fire. 10 All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. 11 Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the rest of the people who were left in the city and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon—all the rest of the multitude. 12 But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

13 The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of bronze that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the bronze pieces to Babylon. 14 They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they ministered. 15 The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, for gold, and that which was of silver, for silver. 16 The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the bronze of all these vessels was not weighed. 17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,*25:17 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.

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

22 As for the people who 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, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men. 24 Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, "Don’t be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans. Dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will be well with you."

25 But in the seventh month, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal offspring came, and ten men with him, and struck Gedaliah so that he died, with the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah. 26 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 In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, released Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison, 28 and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon, 29 and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life; 30 and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him from the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.

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.