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.
А кад се све ово сврши, сви синови Израиљеви што се нађоше онде, зађоше по градовима Јудиним, и изломише ликове и исекоше лугове, и оборише висине и олтаре по свој земљи Јудиној и Венијаминовој и по земљи Јефремовој и Манасијиној, докле све не свршише; потом се вратише сви синови Израиљеви свак на своје наследство, у своје градове.
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.
А Језекија опет уреди редове свештеничке и левитске по редовима њиховим, сваког по служби његовој, свештенике и Левите, за жртве паљенице и захвалне, да служе, и да славе и хвале Господа на вратима логора Његовог.
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].
И одреди део царски од блага свог за жртве паљенице, што се приносе јутром и вечером и за жртве паљенице што се приносе у суботе и на младине и на празнике, како је написано у закону Господњем.
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.
И заповеди народу, Јерусалимљанима, да дају део свештеницима и Левитима, да се јаче држе закона Господњег.
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.
А чим се то разгласи, стадоше доносити синови Израиљеви силу првина од жита и од вина и од уља и од меда и сваког рода земаљског; и десетка од свега доносише врло много.
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.
И синови Израиљеви и Јудини који живљаху по градовима Јудиним, доносише и они десетак од говеда и оваца, и десетак од светих ствари посвећених Господу Богу њиховом, и метнуше у гомиле.
7 They started to do that in May and finished doing it in September.
Трећег месеца почеше метати у гомиле, а седмог месеца свршише.
8 When Hezekiah and his officials saw the heaps, they praised Yahweh and [requested God to] bless the people.
И дође Језекија с кнезовима, и видевши гомиле благословише Господа и народ Његов Израиља.
9 But Hezekiah asked the priests and other descendants of Levi, “Why are these heaps of things here?”
И Језекија запита свештенике и Левите за гомиле.
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]!”
А Азарија поглавар свештенички од дома Садоковог рече му: Откад почеше доносити ове прилоге у дом Господњи, једемо и сити смо и претече много, јер је Господ благословио свој народ, те је претекло ово мноштво.
11 Then Hezekiah ordered that they should prepare storerooms in the temple. So they did that.
Тада заповеди Језекија да се начине клети у дому Господњем; и начинише;
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.
И онде остављаху верно прилоге и десетке и ствари посвећене; и над тим беше поглавар Хонанија Левит и Симеј брат му, други до њега.
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.
А Јехило и Азазија и Нахат и Асаило и Јеримот и Јозавад и Елило и Исмахија и Мат и Венаја беху настојници под руком Хонаније и брата му Симеја по наредби цара Језекије и Азарије старешине у дому Божијем.
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.
А Кореј син Јемне Левита, вратар на истоку, беше над оним што се драговољно приношаше Богу, да би раздељивао принос Господњи и ствари свете над светим.
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.
А под њим беше Еден и Минијамин и Исус и Семаја и Амарија и Сеханија по градовима свештеничким, људи поуздани, да раздају браћи својој делове, великом и малом,
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.
Осим мушких у роду њиховом од три године и више, свакоме који улажаше у дом Господњи на посао свакидашњи по дужности њиховој у служби њиховој по реду њиховом,
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.
И онима који бише избројани у роду свештеничком по домовима отаца њихових, и Левитима од двадесет година и више по служби њиховој по редовима њиховим,
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.
И породици њиховој, свој деци њиховој, женама њиховим, синовима њиховим и кћерима њиховим, свему мноштву; јер се верно посветише светињи;
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.
И синовима Ароновим свештеницима у подграђима градова њихових, по свим градовима, људи именовани даваху делове сваком мушкарцу између свештеника и свакоме рода левитског.
20 That is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He always faithfully did things that Yahweh his God considered to be right and good.
И тако учини Језекија у свој земљи Јудиној; и чињаше шта је добро и право и истинито пред Господом Богом његовим.
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.
И у сваком послу који поче за службу дома Божјег и у закону и у заповести тражећи Бога свог, труђаше се свим срцем својим, и срећан беше.
