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.

بعد از پایان عید پِسَح، اسرائیلی‌هایی که برای شرکت در عید به اورشلیم آمده بودند به شهرهای یهودا، بنیامین، افرایم و منسی رفتند و بتکده‌های روی تپه‌ها را ویران کرده، تمام بتها، مذبحها و مجسمه‌های شرم‌آور اشیره را در هم کوبیدند. سپس همگی به خانه‌های خود بازگشتند.

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.

حِزِقیا دسته‌های کاهنان و لاویان را برحسب نوع خدمتی که داشتند دوباره سر خدمت قرار داد. خدمات ایشان عبارت بودند از: تقدیم قربانیهای سوختنی و قربانیهای سلامتی، رهبری مراسم عبادتی و شکرگزاری و خواندن سرود در خانهٔ خداوند.

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].

همچنین برای قربانیهای سوختنی صبح و عصر، قربانیهای روزهای شَبّات و جشنهای ماه نو و سایر عیدها که در تورات خداوند مقرر شده بود، پادشاه از اموال خود حیواناتی هدیه کرد.

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.

علاوه بر این، برای اینکه کاهنان و لاویان بتوانند تمام وقت مشغول انجام وظیفه‌ای باشند که در تورات خدا برای آنها مقرر شده بود، از مردم اورشلیم خواست تا سهم مقرر شدهٔ کاهنان و لاویان را به آنها بدهند.

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.

به محض صدور فرمان پادشاه، مردم اسرائیل با کمال سخاوتمندی نوبر غله، شراب، روغن زیتون و عسل و نیز ده‌یک تمام محصولات زمین خود را آورده، هدیه کردند.

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.

تمام کسانی که در یهودا ساکن بودند علاوه بر ده‌یک گله‌ها و رمه‌ها، مقدار زیادی هدایای دیگر آوردند و برای خداوند، خدای خود وقف کردند.

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

این کار را از ماه سوم شروع کردند و در ماه هفتم به پایان رساندند.

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

وقتی حِزِقیا و بزرگان قوم آمدند و این هدایا را دیدند خداوند را شکر و سپاس گفتند و برای قوم اسرائیل برکت طلبیدند.

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

حِزِقیا از کاهنان و لاویان دربارهٔ هدایا سؤال کرد،

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]!”

و عزریا، کاهن اعظم، که از طایفهٔ صادوق بود جواب داد: «از وقتی که مردم شروع کردند به آوردن این هدایای خوراکی به خانهٔ خداوند، ما از آنها خوردیم و سیر شدیم و مقدار زیادی نیز باقی مانده است، زیرا خداوند قوم خود را برکت داده است.»

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

حِزِقیا دستور داد که در خانهٔ خداوند انبارهایی بسازند.

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.

پس از آماده شدن انبارها، تمام مواد خوراکی اهدا شده را در آنجا انبار کردند. مسئولیت نگهداری انبارها به عهدهٔ کننیای لاوی بود و برادرش شمعی نیز او را کمک می‌کرد.

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.

ده لاوی دیگر نیز از طرف حِزِقیای پادشاه و عزریا، کاهن اعظم، تعیین شدند تا زیر نظر این دو برادر خدمت کنند. این لاویان عبارت بودند از: یحی‌ئیل، عزریا، نحت، عسائیل، یریموت، یوزاباد، ایلی‌ئیل، یسمخیا، محت و بنایا.

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.

قوری (پسر یمنهٔ لاوی) که نگهبان دروازهٔ شرقی بود، مسئول توزیع هدایا در میان کاهنان شد. دستیاران او اینها بودند: عیدن، منیامین، یشوع، شمعیا، امریا و شکنیا. ایشان هدایا را به شهرهای کاهنان بردند و میان گروه‌های مختلف کاهنان تقسیم می‌کردند و سهم پیر و جوان را به طور مساوی می‌دادند.

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.

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.

در ضمن به خانوادهٔ کاهنان نیز سهمی تعلق می‌گرفت.

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.

نام کاهنان برحسب طایفه‌هایشان و نام لاویان بیست ساله و بالاتر نیز برحسب وظایفی که در گروه‌های مختلف داشتند، ثبت شده بود.

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.

به خانواده‌های کاهنانی که نامشان ثبت شده بود، به طور مرتب سهمیه‌ای داده می‌شد زیرا این کاهنان خود را وقف خدمت خدا کرده بودند.

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.

افرادی نیز تعیین شدند تا هدایای خوراکی را بین کاهنان نسل هارون که در مزارع اطراف شهرها زندگی می‌کردند و نیز بین کسانی که نامشان در نسب نامهٔ لاویان ثبت شده بود، توزیع کنند.

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

به این ترتیب حِزِقیای پادشاه در مورد توزیع هدایا در سراسر یهودا اقدام نمود و آنچه در نظر خداوند، خدایش پسندیده و درست بود بجا آورد.

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.

او با تمام دل و جان آنچه برای خانهٔ خدا لازم بود انجام می‌داد و از شریعت و احکام خدا پیروی می‌نمود و به همین جهت همیشه موفق بود.