2 Chronicles 36
1 Then the people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and appointed him as the king in Jerusalem.
Entonces la gente de la nación tomó a Joacaz, hijo de Josías, y lo hizo rey en Jerusalén en sucesión de su padre.
2 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months.
Joacaz tenía veintitrés años cuando llegó a ser rey, y reinó en Jerusalén durante tres meses.
3 King Neco of Egypt [captured him and] prevented him from ruling any longer. He also forced the people of Judah to pay him a tax of almost four tons of silver and about 75 pounds of gold.
Entonces el rey de Egipto lo destituyó del trono en Jerusalén y le impuso a Judá un impuesto de cien talentos de plata y un talento de oro.
4 The king of Egypt appointed Jehoahaz’s [younger] brother Eliakim to be the king of Judah. He changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. After Neco captured Jehoahaz, he took him to Egypt.
Neco, rey de Egipto, nombró a Eliaquim, hermano de Joacaz, rey de Judá y de Jerusalén, y cambió el nombre de Eliaquim por el de Joacim. Neco se llevó a Egipto al hermano de Eliaquim, Joacaz.
5 Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 11 years. He did things that Yahweh his God considers to be evil.
Joacim tenía veinticinco años cuando llegó a ser rey, y reinó en Jerusalén durante once años. Hizo lo malo ante los ojos del Señor, su Dios.
6 Then the army of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim’s army. They [captured Jehoiakim and] bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.
Entonces Nabucodonosor, rey de Babilonia, atacó a Joacim. Lo capturó y le puso grilletes de bronce, y lo llevó a Babilonia.
7 Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers also took valuable things from the temple; they took them to Babylon and put them in king [Nebuchadnezzar’s] palace there.
Nabucodonosor también tomó algunos objetos del Templo del Señor, y los puso en su templo en Babilonia.
8 A record of the other things that happened while Jehoiakim was ruling, the detestable things that he did, including the evil things that people said that he did, is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Israel and Judah’. After [he was taken to Babylon], his son Jehoiachin became the king [of Judah].
El resto de lo que hizo Joacim, los repugnantes pecados que cometió y todas las pruebas contra él, están escritos en el Libro de los Reyes de Israel y Judá. Su hijo Joaquín tomó el relevo como rey.
9 Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months and ten days. He did things that Yahweh considers to be evil.
Joaquín tenía dieciocho años cuando llegó a ser rey, y reinó en Jerusalén durante tres meses y diez días. Hizo el mal a los ojos del Señor.
10 During the spring of the next year, King Nebuchadnezzar sent [soldiers] to bring him to Babylon. They also took to Babylon many valuable things from the temple of Yahweh. Then Nebuchadnezzar appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Zedekiah, to be the king of Judah.
En la primavera del año, el rey Nabucodonosor lo llamó y lo llevó a Babilonia, junto con objetos valiosos del Templo del Señor, e hizo que el tío de Joaquín Sedequías rey sobre Judá y Jerusalén.
11 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years.
Sedequías tenía veintiún años cuando llegó a ser rey, y reinó en Jerusalén durante once años.
12 He did many things that Yahweh his God considered to be evil. And he did not humble himself when the prophet Jeremiah gave him a message from Yahweh [to warn him].
Hizo lo malo ante los ojos del Señor, su Dios, y se negó a admitir su orgullo cuando el profeta Jeremías le advirtió directamente de parte del Señor.
13 He would not return to Yahweh, the God that the people of Israel [said that they worshiped]. Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had forced him to solemnly promise using God’s name [to be loyal to him]. Zedekiah became very stubborn.
También se rebeló contra el rey Nabucodonosor, quien le había hecho jurar lealtad a Dios. Sedequías era arrogante y de corazón duro, y se negó a volver al Señor, el Dios de Israel.
14 Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and also the people [of Judah] became more wicked again, doing all the detestable things that the people of the other nations did, and causing the temple in Jerusalem that Yahweh had caused to be holy to become [an] unacceptable [place to worship him].
Y todos los dirigentes de los sacerdotes y del pueblo eran también totalmente infieles y pecadores, y seguían todas las prácticas repugnantes de las naciones paganas. Profanaron el Templo del Señor, que él había consagrado como santo en Jerusalén.
15 Yahweh, the God whom the ancestors [of the people of Judah belonged to/worshiped], gave messages to his prophets many times, and the prophets told those messages to the people of Judah. Yahweh did that because he pitied his people and did not want his temple to be destroyed.
Una y otra vez el Señor, el Dios de sus padres, advirtió a su pueblo por medio de sus profetas, porque quería mostrar misericordia con ellos y con su Templo.
16 But the people continually made fun of God’s messengers. They despised God’s messages. They ridiculed his prophets, until finally God became extremely angry with his people, with the result that nothing could stop him [from destroying Judah].
Pero ellos ridiculizaban a los mensajeros de Dios, despreciaban sus advertencias y se burlaban de sus profetas, hasta que la ira del Señor contra su pueblo fue provocada a tal punto que no pudo ser contenida.
17 He incited the king of Babylonia to attack [Judah with his army]. They killed the young men with their swords, even in the temple. They did not spare/pity anyone, young men or young women or old people. God enabled the army of Nebuchadnezzar to kill all of them.
Entonces el Señor hizo que el rey de Babilonia los atacara. Su ejército mató a espada a sus mejores jóvenes incluso en el santuario. Los babilonios no perdonaron a los jóvenes ni a las mujeres, ni a los enfermos, ni a los ancianos. Dios los entregó a todos en manos de Nabucodonosor.
18 His soldiers took to Babylon all the things that were used in God’s temple—big things and little things, all the valuable things, and the valuable things that belonged to the king and his officials.
Se llevó a Babilonia todos los artículos, grandes y pequeños, del Templo de Dios, del tesoro del Templo, del rey y de sus funcionarios.
19 They burned the temple, and they broke down the wall surrounding Jerusalem. They burned all the palaces [in Jerusalem] and destroyed all the remaining valuable things there.
Luego los babilonios quemaron el Templo de Dios y demolieron las murallas de Jerusalén. Incendiaron todos los palacios y destruyeron todo lo que tenía algún valor.
20 Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers took to Babylon the remaining people who had not been killed with their swords. Then those people became the king’s slaves and his son’s slaves, until the [army of the] king of Persia conquered [the army of Babylonia].
Nabucodonosor llevó al exilio en Babilonia a los que no habían sido asesinados. Fueron esclavos para él y sus hijos, hasta que el reino de Persia tomó el control.
21 [Moses had said that every seventh year the people must not plant their fields; they must allow the soil to rest. But the people had not done that. So after the army of Babylonia destroyed Judah, ] the soil was allowed to rest. That continued for 70 years, fulfilling what Yahweh told Jeremiah and what Jeremiah had predicted/prophesied would happen.
Así que para cumplir la profecía del Señor dada por medio de Jeremías, la tierra disfrutó de sus sábados como descanso durante todo el tiempo que estuvo desolada, guardando el sábado hasta que se cumplieron setenta años.
22 During the first year that Cyrus was the king of Persia, in order that what Yahweh told Jeremiah would happen would occur, Yahweh motivated Cyrus to write this and proclaim it throughout his kingdom:
En el primer año de Ciro, rey de Persia, para cumplir la profecía del Señor dada por medio de Jeremías, el Señor animó a Ciro, rey de Persia, a que emitiera una proclama en todo su reino y también a que la pusiera por escrito, diciendo:
23 “I, Cyrus, the king of Persia, declare that Yahweh, the God [who rules] in heaven, has enabled me to become the ruler of all the kingdoms of this world. And he wants me to [command that my workers] build a temple {a temple be built} for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Any of his people living among you people of Persia are allowed to go to Jerusalem. And I will pray that Yahweh will be with them.”
“Esto es lo que dice Ciro, rey de Persia: ‘El Señor, el Dios del cielo, que me ha dado todos los reinos de la tierra, me ha dado la responsabilidad de construir un Templo para él en Jerusalén, en Judá. Cualquiera de ustedes que pertenezca a su pueblo puede ir allí. Que el Señor, su Dios, esté con ustedes’”.
