2 Raja-raja 24
1 Semasa pemerintahan Raja Yoyakim, Nebukadnezar raja Babel menyerang dan menaklukkan Yehuda. Tiga tahun lamanya Yoyakim tunduk kepada Nebukadnezar, tetapi kemudian ia memberontak.
While Jehoiakim was ruling [Judah, the army of] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon invaded Judah. [They defeated the Judean army, and as a result, ] Jehoiakim was required to pay a lot of tribute/taxes to King Nebuchadnezzar. But after three years, Jehoiakim rebelled.
2 TUHAN mengirim gerombolan-gerombolan bersenjata dari bangsa Babel, Siria, Moab dan Amon untuk melawan Yoyakim dan membinasakan Yehuda, sesuai dengan apa yang telah dikatakan-Nya melalui para nabi hamba-hamba-Nya.
Then Yahweh sent raiders from Babylonia and Syria, and from the Moab and Ammon people-groups, to attack the people of Judah and get rid of them, just as Yahweh had told his prophets to warn the people would happen.
3 Memang hal itu harus terjadi, karena TUHAN sudah mengatakan bahwa bangsa Yehuda akan dibuang dari negeri yang diberikan TUHAN kepada mereka. Mereka dibuang karena segala dosa yang dilakukan oleh Raja Manasye;
These things happened to the people of Judah according to what Yahweh commanded. [He had decided] to get rid of the people of Judah because of the many sins that King Manasseh [had committed].
4 terutama karena semua pembunuhan yang dilakukannya terhadap orang-orang yang tidak bersalah. TUHAN tidak mau mengampuni Manasye karena perbuatan-perbuatannya itu.
Manasseh had even caused many innocent people in Jerusalem to be killed, and Yahweh would not forgive that.
5 Seluruh daerah, dari Sungai Efrat sampai perbatasan Mesir sebelah utara yang termasuk wilayah pemerintahan raja Mesir, dikuasai oleh raja Babel. Karena itu raja Mesir tidak pernah lagi keluar dari negerinya untuk pergi berperang. Kisah lainnya mengenai Raja Yoyakim dicatat dalam buku Sejarah Raja-raja Yehuda. Setelah Yoyakim meninggal, putranya yang bernama Yoyakhin menjadi raja menggantikan dia.
The other things that happened while Jehoiakim was king, and all the things that he did, are written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.
When Jehoiakim died, his son Jehoiachin became the king.
[The army of] the king of Babylon [defeated the army of Egypt, and] took control of all the area that the Egyptians formerly controlled, from the brook [at the border] of Egypt [in the south] to the Euphrates River [in the north]. So [the army of] the king of Egypt did not return [to attack Judah] again.
8 Yoyakhin berumur 18 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda, dan ia memerintah di Yerusalem tiga bulan lamanya. Ibunya bernama Nehusta anak Elnatan, dari Yerusalem.
Jehoiachin was 18 years old when he became the king of Judah. His mother’s name was Nehushta; she was the daughter of a man from Jerusalem named Elnathan. Jehoiachin ruled in Jerusalem for [only] three months.
9 Seperti ayahnya, Yoyakhin pun berdosa kepada TUHAN.
Jehoiachin did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, just as his father had done.
10 Dalam masa pemerintahan Yoyakhin, pasukan Babel yang dipimpin oleh perwira-perwira Nebukadnezar, maju menyerang Yerusalem, dan mengepung kota itu.
[While Jehoiachin was king, ] some officers of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came [along with the whole Babylonian army] to Jerusalem, and they surrounded the city.
11 Sementara kota itu dikepung, Nebukadnezar sendiri datang ke Yerusalem,
While they were doing that, Nebuchadnezzar himself came to the city.
12 lalu Raja Yoyakhin bersama ibunya, anak-anaknya, perwira-perwiranya serta pegawai-pegawai istananya menyerah kepada Nebukadnezar. Lalu Yoyakhin ditawan. Hal itu terjadi pada tahun kedelapan pemerintahan Nebukadnezar.
Then King Jehoiachin and his mother and his advisors and important officers and palace officials all surrendered to the Babylonian army. These thngs happened when Nebuchadnezzar had been king for eight years. He arrested Jehoiachin and took him to Babylon.
13 Semua perkakas emas yang dibuat oleh Raja Salomo untuk Rumah TUHAN, dirusak oleh Nebukadnezar. Lalu semua benda berharga yang terdapat di Rumah TUHAN itu dan di istana diangkutnya ke Babel. Semua itu terjadi sesuai dengan apa yang telah dikatakan TUHAN sebelumnya.
Just as Yahweh had said would happen, Nebuchadnezzar’s [soldiers] took [to Babylon] all the valuable things from Yahweh’s temple and from the king’s palace. They cut apart all the gold items that King Solomon had put in the temple.
14 Raja Yoyakhin, ibunya, istri-istrinya, pegawai-pegawainya, dan pemimpin-pemimpin Yehuda--seluruhnya 7.000 orang terkemuka--ditawan dan diangkut ke Babel. Juga para pekerja ahli dan pandai besi sebanyak 1.000 orang, semuanya orang kuat-kuat dan berani-berani untuk berperang. Orang-orang keturunan raja, dan orang-orang terkemuka pun diangkut juga ke pembuangan--semuanya ada 10.000 orang. Hampir seluruh penduduk Yerusalem diangkut; yang tertinggal hanyalah rakyat yang paling miskin.
They took from Jerusalem [to Babylon] 10,000 people, including the important officials and the best soldiers and the people who made and repaired things that were made of metal. Only the very poor people were left in Judah.
Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers also took to Babylon Jehoiachin’s wives and officials, his mother, and [all] the important people.
They also took to Babylon 7,000 of the best soldiers and 1,000 men who knew how to make and repair things that are made from metal. All of these people whom they took were strong and able to fight in wars.
17 Kemudian Nebukadnezar mengangkat Matanya, paman Yoyakhin, menjadi raja Yehuda, dan mengubah namanya menjadi Zedekia.
Then the king of Babylon appointed Jehoiachin’s uncle, Mattaniah, to be the king [of Judah], and he changed Mattaniah’s name to Zedekiah.
18 Zedekia berumur 21 tahun ketika ia menjadi raja Yehuda. Ia memerintah di Yerusalem 11 tahun lamanya. Ibunya bernama Hamutal, anak Yeremia dari kota Libna.
When Zedekiah was twenty-one years old, he became king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal; she was the daughter of a man named Jeremiah from Libnah [town].
19 Seperti Raja Yoyakim, Raja Zedekia juga berdosa kepada TUHAN.
But Zedekiah did many things that Yahweh considered to be evil, just as Jehoiakim had done.
20 TUHAN marah sekali kepada penduduk Yerusalem dan orang Yehuda sehingga Ia tidak lagi memperhatikan mereka.
Yahweh was very angry. So (and finally/after he had been patient a long time) he expelled the people of Jerusalem and [the other places in] Judah and sent them to Babylon. [That is what happened when] Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
