2 Chronicles 36

1 Then the people of Judah chose Josiah’s son Jehoahaz and appointed him as the king in Jerusalem.

۱ و قوم زمین، یهوآحاز بن یوشیا راگرفته، او را در جای پدرش در اورشلیم به پادشاهی نصب نمودند.

2 Jehoahaz was 23 years old when he became the king, but he ruled from Jerusalem for [only] three months.

۲ یهوآحاز بیست و سه ساله بود که پادشاه شد و در اورشلیم سه ماه سلطنت نمود.

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.

۳ و پادشاه مصر، او را در اورشلیم معزول نمود و زمین را به صد وزنه نقره و یک وزنه طلا جریمه کرد.

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.

۴ و پادشاه مصر، برادرش الیاقیم را بر یهودا و اورشلیم پادشاه ساخت، و اسم او رابه یهویاقیم تبدیل نمود، و نکو برادرش یهوآحازرا گرفته، به مصر برد.

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.

۵ یهویاقیم بیست و پنج ساله بود که پادشاه شد و یازده سال در اورشلیم سلطنت نمود، و درنظر یهوه خدای خود شرارت ورزید.

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.

۶ ونبوکدنصر پادشاه بابل به ضد او برآمد و او را به زنجیرها بست تا او را به بابل ببرد.

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.

۷ و نبوکدنصربعضی از ظروف خانه خداوند را به بابل آورده، آنها را در قصر خود در بابل گذاشت.

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].

۸ و بقیه وقایع یهویاقیم و رجاساتی که به عمل آورد وآنچه در او یافت شد، اینک در تواریخ پادشاهان اسرائیل و یهودا مکتوب است، و پسرش یهویاکین در جایش پادشاهی کرد.

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.

۹ یهویاکین هشت ساله بود که پادشاه شد و سه ماه و ده روز در اورشلیم سلطنت نمود و آنچه درنظر خداوند ناپسند بود، به عمل آورد.

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.

۱۰ و در وقت تحویل سال، نبوکدنصر پادشاه فرستاد و اورا با ظروف گرانبهای خانه خداوند به بابل آورد، و برادرش صدقیا را بر یهودا و اورشلیم پادشاه ساخت.

11 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for 11 years.

۱۱ صدقیا بیست و یکساله بود که پادشاه شد ویازده سال در اورشلیم سلطنت نمود.

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].

۱۲ و در نظریهوه خدای خود شرارت ورزیده، در حضورارمیای نبی که از زبان خداوند به او سخن گفت، تواضع ننمود.

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.

۱۳ و نیز بر نبوکدنصر پادشاه که اورا به خدا قسم داده بود عاصی شد و گردن خود راقوی و دل خویش را سخت ساخته، به سوی یهوه خدای اسرائیل بازگشت ننمود.

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].

۱۴ و تمامی روسای کهنه و قوم، خیانت بسیاری موافق همه رجاسات امت‌ها ورزیدند و خانه خداوند را که آن را در اورشلیم تقدیس نموده بود، نجس ساختند.

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.

۱۵ و یهوه خدای پدر ایشان به‌دست رسولان خویش نزد ایشان فرستاد، بلکه صبح زودبرخاسته، ایشان را ارسال نمود زیرا که بر قوم خود و بر مسکن خویش شفقت نمود.

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].

۱۶ اماایشان رسولان خدا را اهانت نمودند و کلام او راخوار شمرده، انبیایش را استهزا نمودند، چنانکه غضب خداوند بر قوم او افروخته شد، به حدی که علاجی نبود.

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.

۱۷ پس پادشاه کلدانیان را که جوانان ایشان رادر خانه مقدس ایشان به شمشیر کشت و برجوانان و دوشیزگان و پیران و ریش سفیدان ترحم ننمود، بر ایشان آورد و همه را به‌دست او تسلیم کرد.

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.

۱۸ و او سایر ظروف خانه خدا را از بزرگ وکوچک و خزانه های خانه خداوند و گنجهای پادشاه و سرورانش را تمام به بابل برد.

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.

۱۹ و خانه خدا را سوزانیدند و حصار اورشلیم را منهدم ساختند و همه قصرهایش را به آتش سوزانیدندو جمیع آلات نفیسه آنها را ضایع کردند.

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].

۲۰ وبقیه السیف را به بابل به اسیری برد که ایشان تازمان سلطنت پادشاهان فارس او را و پسرانش رابنده بودند.

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.

۲۱ تا کلام خداوند به زبان ارمیا کامل شود و زمین از سبت های خود تمتع برد زیرا درتمامی ایامی که ویران ماند آرامی یافت، تا هفتادسال سپری شد.

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:

۲۲ و در سال اول کورش، پادشاه فارس، تاکلام خداوند به زبان ارمیا کامل شود، خداوندروح کورش، پادشاه فارس را برانگیخت تا درتمامی ممالک خود فرمانی نافذ کرد و آن را نیزمرقوم داشت و گفت:

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.”

۲۳ «کورش، پادشاه فارس چنین می‌فرماید: یهوه خدای آسمانها، تمامی ممالک زمین را به من داده است و او مرا امر فرمودکه خانه‌ای برای وی در اورشلیم که در یهودااست بنا نمایم. پس کیست از شما از تمامی قوم او؟ یهوه خدایش همراهش باشد و برود.»