2 Chronicles 31

1 After the festival ended, the Israelis who were there went to all the towns in Judah and smashed the stones/pillars [for worshiping idols], and cut down the poles [for worshiping the goddess] Asherah. They destroyed the shrines on the hilltops and the altars [of Baal] throughout the areas where the tribes of Judah and Benjamin lived, and also in the areas of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. After destroying all of them, they returned to their own towns.

Hechas todas estas cosas, salió todo Israel, los que se habían hallado allí, por las ciudades de Judá, y quebraron las imágenes y destruyeron los bosques, y derribaron los altos y los altares por todo Judá y Benjamín, y también en Efraín y Manasés, hasta acabarlo todo. Después se volvieron todos los hijos de Israel, cada uno a su posesión y a sus ciudades.

2 Hezekiah divided the priests and [other] descendants of Levi into groups. He appointed some of the groups to offer sacrifices that would be completely burned [on the altar] and offerings to maintain fellowship [with Yahweh]. He appointed some groups to do other work at the temple: some to lead the people in their worship, some to thank Yahweh, and some to sing songs to praise to Yahweh at the gates of the temple.

Y constituyó Ezequías los repartimientos de los sacerdotes y de los levitas conforme a sus órdenes, cada uno según su oficio: los sacerdotes y los levitas para el holocausto y pacíficos, para que ministrasen, para que confesasen, y alabasen a las puertas de las tiendas del SEÑOR.

3 The king contributed some of his own funds to buy animals that would be sacrificed in the morning and in the evening of each day, and on the Sabbath days, to celebrate the new moons, and during the other feasts, according to what was written in the laws [that Yahweh gave to Moses].

La contribución del rey de su hacienda, era holocaustos a mañana y tarde, y holocaustos para los sábados, nuevas lunas, y fiestas solemnes, como está escrito en la ley del SEÑOR.

4 Hezekiah told the people living in Jerusalem to give to the priests and the other descendants of Levi the portions [of meat] that should be given to them, in order that they could devote all their time to obeying the laws of Yahweh.

Mandó también al pueblo que habitaba en Jerusalén, que diesen la porción a los sacerdotes y levitas, para que se esforzasen en la ley del SEÑOR.

5 As soon as he told that to the people, they generously gave the first part of their harvest of grain, and the first part of the new wine [that they produced], and [olive] oil and honey, and of the crops that grew in their fields. They brought [to the temple] a tenth of all their crops.

Y cuando la palabra tomó fuerza al multiplicarse, les fue mutiplicado a los hijos de Israel muchas primicias de grano, vino, aceite, miel, y de todos los frutos de la tierra; y trajeron asimismo los diezmos de todas las cosas en abundancia.

6 The men of Israel and Judah who were living in various towns in Judah also brought a tenth of their cattle and sheep and goats, and a tenth of other things that they had dedicated to Yahweh their God, and they piled all those things in heaps.

También los hijos de Israel y de Judá, que habitaban en las ciudades de Judá, dieron del mismo modo los diezmos de las vacas y de las ovejas; y trajeron los diezmos de lo santificado, de las cosas que habían prometido al SEÑOR su Dios, y los pusieron por montones.

7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.

En el mes tercero comenzaron a fundar aquellos montones, y en el mes séptimo acabaron.

8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.

Y Ezequías y los príncipes vinieron a ver los montones, y bendijeron al SEÑOR, y a su pueblo Israel.

9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”

Y preguntó Ezequías a los sacerdotes y a los levitas acerca de los montones.

10 Then Azariah the [Supreme] Priest, a descendant of Zadok, replied, “Since the time that the people started to bring their offerings to the temple, we have had even more food than we need. This has happened because Yahweh has greatly blessed our fellow Israelis, with the result that all this is left over [after we priests and other descendants of Levi took all that we need]!”

Y le respondió Azarías, sumo sacerdote, de la casa de Sadoc, y dijo: Desde que comenzaron a traer la ofrenda a la Casa del SEÑOR, hemos comido y nos hemos saciado, y nos ha sobrado mucho; porque el SEÑOR ha bendecido su pueblo, y ha quedado esta gran provisión.

11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.

Entonces mandó Ezequías que preparasen cámaras en la Casa del SEÑOR; y las prepararon.

12 Then they brought into the storerooms all the tithes and offerings and the things dedicated to Yahweh [which the people had brought]. One of the descendants of Levi whose name was Conaniah was in charge of those things, and his [younger] brother Shimei was his assistant.

Y metieron las primicias y diezmos y las cosas consagradas, fielmente; y dieron cargo de ello a Conanías levita, el principal, y Simei su hermano fue el segundo.

13 Those two men supervised Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah while they did the work. They were appointed by King Hezekiah; Azariah was in charge of [everything that was done in] the temple.

Y Jehiel, Azazías, Nahat, Asael, Jeremot, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismaquías, Mahat, y Benaía, fueron sobrestantes bajo la mano de Conanías y de Simei su hermano, por mandamiento del rey Ezequías y de Azarías, príncipe de la Casa de Dios.

14 Kore the son of Imnah, another descendant of Levi, who guarded the east gate of the temple, was in charge of the offerings to God that were made voluntarily. He distributed to the priests and [other] descendants of Levi the offerings and other things that were dedicated to Yahweh.

Y Coré hijo de Imna levita, portero al oriente, tenía cargo de las limosnas de Dios, y de las ofrendas del SEÑOR que se daban, y de todo lo que se santificaba.

15 Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah faithfully assisted him in the towns where the priests lived. They distributed those things to the groups of their fellow priests; they distributed them to everyone, from the youngest to the oldest.

Y a su mano estaba Edén, Benjamín, Jesúa, Semaías, Amarías, y Secanías, en las ciudades de los sacerdotes, para dar con fidelidad a sus hermanos sus partes conforme a sus órdenes, así al mayor como al menor.

16 They also distributed things to the males who were at least 30 years old, those whose names were written on the scrolls where lists of family names were written. They were males who [were allowed to] enter the temple to perform their tasks/work each day, the tasks that each group had been assigned to do.

Sin lo que se contaba para los varones de tres años arriba, a todos los que entraban en la Casa del SEÑOR, cada cosa en su día por su ministerio, por sus estancias y por sus órdenes;

17 The names of the priests were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written. They also distributed things to groups of [other] descendants of Levi, those who were at least 20 years old.

y a los que eran contados entre los sacerdotes por las familias de sus padres, y a los levitas de edad de veinte años arriba, por sus estancias y órdenes;

18 They included all their little children and wives and other sons and daughters whose names were on the scrolls where their clans’ names were written, because they also faithfully had dedicated themselves to Yahweh.

asimismo a los de su generación con todos sus niños, y sus mujeres, y sus hijos e hijas, para toda la compañía; porque por la fe de estos se repartían las ofrendas.

19 [Hezekiah] also appointed other men to distribute portions of those offerings to the priests and other descendants of Levi who were living in the pasturelands around the towns in Judah. But they gave things only to those who were descendants of Aaron [the first Supreme Priest], whose names were on the scrolls containing the names of their clans.

Asimismo a los hijos de Aarón, los sacerdotes, que estaban en los ejidos de sus ciudades, por todas las ciudades, los varones nombrados tenían cargo de dar sus porciones a todos los varones de los sacerdotes, y a todo el linaje de los levitas.

20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.

De esta manera hizo Ezequías en todo Judá; el cual hizo lo bueno, recto, y verdadero, delante del SEÑOR su Dios.

21 In everything that he did for the worship in the temple, and as he obeyed God’s laws and commands, he tried to find out what his God wanted, and he worked energetically. So he was successful.

En todo cuanto comenzó en el servicio de la Casa de Dios, y en la ley y mandamientos, buscó a su Dios, y lo hizo de todo corazón, y fue prosperado.