2 Kings 23

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	SMITH VAN DYKE
1 The king then had all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem summoned together before him.	1 وارسل الملك فجمعوا اليه كل شيوخ يهوذا واورشليم.
2 The king went up to the temple of the LORD with all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem: priests, prophets, and all the people, small and great. He had the entire contents of the book of the covenant that had been found in the temple of the LORD, read out to them.	2 وصعد الملك الى بيت الرب وجميع رجال يهوذا وكل سكان اورشليم معه والكهنة والانبياء وكل الشعب من الصغير الى الكبير وقرأ في آذانهم كل كلام سفر الشريعة الذي وجد في بيت الرب.
3 Standing by the column, the king made a covenant before the LORD that they would follow him and observe his ordinances, statutes and decrees with their whole hearts and souls, thus reviving the terms of the covenant which were written in this book. And all the people stood as participants in the covenant.	3 ووقف الملك على المنبر وقطع عهدا امام الرب للذهاب وراء الرب ولحفظ وصاياه وشهاداته وفرائضه بكل القلب وكل النفس لاقامة كلام هذا العهد المكتوب في هذا السفر. ووقف جميع الشعب عند العهد.
4 Then the king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, his vicar, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the objects that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the whole host of heaven. He had these burned outside Jerusalem on the slopes of the Kidron and their ashes carried to Bethel.	4 وامر الملك حلقيا الكاهن العظيم وكهنة الفرقة الثانية وحراس الباب ان يخرجوا من هيكل الرب جميع الآنية المصنوعة للبعل وللسارية ولكل اجناد السماء واحرقها خارج اورشليم في حقول قدرون وحمل رمادها الى بيت ايل.
5 He also put an end to the pseudo-priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense on the high places in the cities of Judah and in the vicinity of Jerusalem, as well as those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, moon, and signs of the Zodiac, and to the whole host of heaven.	5 ولاشى كهنة الاصنام الذين جعلهم ملوك يهوذا ليوقدوا على المرتفعات في مدن يهوذا وما يحيط باورشليم والذين يوقدون للبعل للشمس والقمر والمنازل ولكل اجناد السماء.
6 From the temple of the LORD he also removed the sacred pole, to the Kidron Valley, outside Jerusalem; there he had it burned and beaten to dust, which was then scattered over the common graveyard.	6 واخرج السارية من بيت الرب خارج اورشليم الى وادي قدرون واحرقها في وادي قدرون ودقها الى ان صارت غبارا وذرى الغبار على قبور عامة الشعب.
7 He tore down the apartments of the cult prostitutes which were in the temple of the LORD, and in which the women wove garments for the Asherah.	7 وهدم بيوت المأبونين التي عند بيت الرب حيث كانت النساء ينسجن بيوتا للسارية.
8 He brought in all the priests from the cities of Judah, and then defiled, from Geba to Beer-sheba, the high places where they had offered incense. He also tore down the high place of the satyrs, which was at the entrance of the Gate of Joshua, governor of the city, to the left as one enters the city gate.	8 وجاء بجميع الكهنة من مدن يهوذا ونجس المرتفعات حيث كان الكهنة يوقدون من جبع الى بئر سبع وهدم مرتفعات الابواب التي عند مدخل باب يشوع رئيس المدينة التي عن اليسار في باب المدينة.
9 The priests of the high places could not function at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem; but they, along with their relatives, ate the unleavened bread.	9 الا ان كهنة المرتفعات لم يصعدوا الى مذبح الرب في اورشليم بل اكلوا فطيرا بين اخوتهم.
10 The king also defiled Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom, so that there would no longer be an immolation of sons or daughters by fire in honor of Molech.	10 ونجس توفة التي في وادي بني هنوم لكي لا يعبّر احد ابنه او ابنته في النار لمولك.
11 He did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun; these were at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, near the chamber of Nathan-melech the eunuch, which was in the large building. The chariots of the sun he destroyed by fire.	11 واباد الخيل التي اعطاها ملوك يهوذا للشمس عند مدخل بيت الرب عند مخدع نثنملك الخصي الذي في الاروقة ومركبات الشمس احرقها بالنار.
12 He also demolished the altars made by the kings of Judah on the roof (the roof terrace of Ahaz), and the altars made by Manasseh in the two courts of the temple of the LORD. He pulverized them and threw the dust into the Kidron Valley.	12 والمذابح التي على سطح عليّة آحاز التي عملها ملوك يهوذا والمذابح التي عملها منسّى في داري بيت الرب هدمها الملك وركض من هناك وذرى غبارها في وادي قدرون.
13 The king defiled the high places east of Jerusalem, south of the Mount of Misconduct, which Solomon, king of Israel, had built in honor of Astarte, the Sidonian horror, of Chemosh, the Moabite horror, and of Milcom, the idol of the Ammonites.	13 والمرتفعات التي قبالة اورشليم التي عن يمين جبل الهلاك التي بناها سليمان ملك اسرائيل لعشتورث رجاسة الصيدونيين ولكموش رجاسة الموآبيين ولملكوم كراهة بني عمون نجسها الملك.
14 He broke to pieces the pillars, cut down the sacred poles, and filled the places where they had been with human bones.	14 وكسّر التماثيل وقطع السواري وملأ مكانها من عظام الناس.
15 Likewise the altar which was at Bethel, the high place built by Jeroboam, son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin--this same altar and high place he tore down, breaking up the stones and grinding them to powder, and burning the Asherah.	15 وكذلك المذبح الذي في بيت ايل في المرتفعات التي عملها يربعام بن نباط الذي جعل اسرائيل يخطئ فذانك المذبح والمرتفعة هدمها واحرق المرتفعة وسحقها حتى صارت غبارا واحرق السارية.
16 When Josiah turned and saw the graves there on the mountainside, he ordered the bones taken from the graves and burned on the altar, and thus defiled it in fulfillment of the word of the LORD which the man of God had proclaimed as Jeroboam was standing by the altar on the feast day. When the king looked up and saw the grave of the man of God who had proclaimed these words,	16 والتفت يوشيا فرأى القبور التي هناك في الجبل فارسل واخذ العظام من القبور واحرقها على المذبح ونجّسه حسب كلام الرب الذي نادى به رجل الله الذي نادى بهذا الكلام.
17 he asked, "What is that tombstone I see?" The men of the city replied, "It is the grave of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted the very things you have done to the altar of Bethel."	17 وقال ما هذه الصوّة التي ارى. فقال له رجال المدينة هي قبر رجل الله الذي جاء من يهوذا ونادى بهذه الامور التي عملت على مذبح بيت ايل.
18 "Let him be," he said, "let no one move his bones." So they left his bones undisturbed together with the bones of the prophet who had come from Samaria.	18 فقال دعوه. لا يحركنّ احد عظامه. فتركوا عظامه وعظام النبي الذي جاء من السامرة.
19 Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places near the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had erected, thereby provoking the LORD; he did the very same to them as he had done in Bethel.	19 وكذا جميع بيوت المرتفعات التي في مدن السامرة التي عملها ملوك اسرائيل للاغاظة ازالها يوشيا وعمل بها حسب جميع الاعمال التي عملها في بيت ايل.
20 He slaughtered upon the altars all the priests of the high places that were at the shrines, and burned human bones upon them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.	20 وذبح جميع كهنة المترفعات التي هناك على المذابح واحرق عظام الناس عليها ثم رجع الى اورشليم
21 The king issued a command to all the people to observe the Passover of the LORD, their God, as it was prescribed in that book of the covenant.	21 وأمر الملك جميع الشعب قائلا اعملوا فصحا للرب الهكم كما هو مكتوب في سفر العهد هذا.
22 No Passover such as this had been observed during the period when the Judges ruled Israel, or during the entire period of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,	22 انه لم يعمل مثل هذا الفصح منذ ايام القضاة الذين حكموا على اسرائيل ولا في كل ايام ملوك اسرائيل وملوك يهوذا.
23 until the eighteenth year of king Josiah, when this Passover of the LORD was kept in Jerusalem.	23 ولكن في السنة الثامنة عشرة للملك يوشيا عمل هذا الفصح للرب في اورشليم.
24 Further, Josiah did away with the consultation of ghosts and spirits, with the household gods, idols, and all the other horrors to be seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might carry out the stipulations of the law written in the book that the priest Hilkiah had found in the temple of the LORD.	24 وكذلك السحرة والعرافون والترافيم والاصنام وجميع الرجاسات التي رئيت في ارض يهوذا وفي اورشليم ابادها يوشيا ليقيم كلام الشريعة المكتوب في السفر الذي وجده حلقيا الكاهن في بيت الرب.
25 Before him there had been no king who turned to the LORD as he did, with his whole heart, his whole soul, and his whole strength, in accord with the entire law of Moses; nor could any after him compare with him.	25 ولم يكن قبله ملك مثله قد رجع الى الرب بكل قلبه وكل نفسه وكل قوته حسب كل شريعة موسى وبعده لم يقم مثله.
26 Yet, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had given, the LORD did not desist from his fiercely burning anger against Judah.	26 ولكن الرب لم يرجع عن حمو غضبه العظيم لان غضبه حمي على يهوذا من اجل جميع الاغاظات التي اغاظه اياها منسّى.
27 The LORD said: "Even Judah will I put out of my sight as I did Israel. I will reject this city, Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, 'There shall my name be.'"	27 فقال الرب اني انزع يهوذا ايضا من امامي كما نزعت اسرائيل وارفض هذه المدينة التي اخترتها اورشليم والبيت الذي قلت يكون اسمي فيه.
28 The rest of the acts of Josiah, with all that he did, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah.	28 وبقية امور يوشيا وكل ما عمل أما هي مكتوبة في سفر اخبار الايام لملوك يهوذا.
29 In his time Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up toward the river Euphrates to the king of Assyria. King Josiah set out to confront him, but was slain at Megiddo at the first encounter.	29 في ايامه صعد فرعون نخو ملك مصر على ملك اشور الى نهر الفرات. فصعد الملك يوشيا للقائه فقتله في مجدّو حين رآه.
30 His servants brought his body on a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem, where they buried him in his own grave. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz, son of Josiah, anointed him, and proclaimed him king to succeed his father.	30 واركبه عبيده ميتا من مجدّو وجاءوا به الى اورشليم ودفنوه في قبره. فاخذ شعب الارض يهوآحاز بن يوشيا ومسحوه وملكوه عوضا عن ابيه
31 Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother, whose name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah, was from Libnah.	31 كان يهوآحاز ابن ثلاث وعشرين سنة حين ملك وملك ثلاثة اشهر في اورشليم واسم امه حموطل بنت ارميا من لبنة.
32 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his forebears had done.	32 فعمل الشر في عيني الرب حسب كل ما عمله آباؤه.
33 Pharaoh Neco took him prisoner at Riblah in the land of Hamath, thus ending his reign in Jerusalem. He imposed a fine upon the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.	33 واسره فرعون نخو في ربلة في ارض حماة لئلا يملك في اورشليم وغرّم الارض بمئة وزنة من الفضة ووزنة من الذهب.
34 Pharaoh Neco then appointed Eliakim, son of Josiah, king in place of his father Josiah; he changed his name to Jehoiakim. Jehoahaz he took away with him to Egypt, where he died.	34 وملّك فرعون نخو الياقيم بن يوشيا عوضا عن يوشيا ابيه وغيّر اسمه الى يهوياقيم واخذ يهوآحاز وجاء الى مصر فمات هناك.
35 Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but taxed the land to raise the amount Pharaoh demanded. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, from each proportionately, to pay Pharaoh Neco.	35 ودفع يهوياقيم الفضة والذهب لفرعون الا انه قوّم الارض لدفع الفضة بأمر فرعون. كل واحد حسب تقويمه. فطالب شعب الارض بالفضة والذهب ليدفع لفرعون نخو
36 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Zebidah, daughter of Pedaiah, from Rumah.	36 كان يهوياقيم ابن خمس وعشرين سنة حين ملك. وملك احدى عشرة سنة في اورشليم. واسم امه زبيدة بنت فداية من رومة.
37 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his forebears had done.	37 وعمل الشر في عيني الرب حسب كل ما عمل آباؤه