2 Cronache 31

1 Ora, dopo che tutte queste cose furono compiute, tutti gl'Israeliti, che si ritrovarono quivi, uscirono per le città di Giuda, e spezzarono le statue, e tagliarono i boschi, e disfecero gli alti luoghi, e gli altari di tutto Giuda, e Beniamino; [il medesimo fecero] ancora in Efraim, ed in Manasse, senza lasciarne alcuna cosa di resto. Poi tutti i figliuoli d'Israele ritornarono ciascuno alla sua possessione nelle lor terre.

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.

2 EZECHIA ristabilì ancora gli spartimenti de' sacerdoti e de' Leviti, secondo gli spartimenti che n'erano stati fatti; ciascuno secondo il suo ministerio, sacerdoti e Leviti, per [offerire] olocausti e sacrificii da render grazie; per ministrare, e per celebrare e cantar laudi; [e per istare] alle porte del campo del Signore.

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.

3 Ordinò eziandio la parte che il re [fornirebbe] delle sue facoltà per gli olocausti; per gli olocausti della mattina e della sera; e per gli olocausti de' sabati, delle calendi, e delle feste solenni; come è scritto nella Legge del Signore;

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].

4 e disse al popolo, agli abitanti di Gerusalemme, che dessero a' sacerdoti ed ai Leviti la parte loro; acciocchè prendessero animo [di far ciò che] la Legge del Signore [comanda].

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.

5 E quando questo comandamento fu divolgato, i figliuoli d'Israele portarono le primizie del frumento, del vino, e dell'olio, e del miele, e d'ogni frutto della campagna, in gran quantità; portarono ancora le decime d'ogni cosa abbondantemente.

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.

6 I figliuoli d'Israele e di Giuda che abitavano nelle città di Giuda, addussero anch'essi le decime del grosso, e del minuto bestiame, e le decime delle cose sacre, consacrate al Signore Iddio loro; e [le] misero per mucchi.

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.

7 Al terzo mese cominciarono ad accumulare que' mucchi, ed al settimo mese finirono.

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

8 Ed Ezechia, ed i principali vennero, e videro que' mucchi, e benedissero il Signore, ed il suo popolo Israele.

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

9 Ed Ezechia domandò i sacerdoti, e i Leviti, di que' mucchi.

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

10 Ed Azaria, principal sacerdote, della famiglia di Sadoc, gli disse: Da che si è cominciato a portar questa offerta alla Casa del Signore, noi abbiamo mangiato, e siamo stati saziati; e anche n'è rimasto assai; perciocchè il Signore ha benedetto il suo popolo; e quello ch'è avanzato, [è] questa grande abbondanza.

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]!”

11 Ed Ezechia comandò che mettessero in ordine i cellieri e i granai nella Casa del Signore; ed essi [li] misero in ordine;

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

12 e vi portarono dentro fedelmente le offerte, e le decime, e le cose consacrate; e Conania Levita ebbe la soprantendenza di queste cose; e Simi, suo fratello, [fu] il secondo.

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.

13 E Iehiel, ed Azazia, e Nahat, ed Asael, e Ierimot, e Iozabad, ed Eliel, ed Ismachia, e Mahat e Benaia, [erano] commessari sotto Conania, e sotto Simi, suo fratello, per ordine del re Ezechia, e di Azaria, conduttore della Casa di Dio.

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.

14 E Core, figliuolo d'Imma, Levita, portinaio verso Oriente, avea la cura delle cose volontariamente offerte a Dio, per fornir le offerte elevate del Signore, e le cose santissime.

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.

15 E sotto lui [erano] Eden, e Miniamin, e Iesua, e Semaia, ed Amaria, e Secania, nelle città de' sacerdoti[procedenti] in lealtà, per fornire a' lor fratelli piccoli e grandi, secondo i [loro] spartimenti;

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 [cioè], a tutti coloro ch'entravano nella Casa del Signore, secondo il lor ministerio, per le lor mute, conforme a' loro spartimenti, la lor [porzione] giorno per giorno; oltre a' maschi d'infra loro, che furono annoverati per genealogie, dall'età di tre anni in su.

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.

17 (Or la descrizione de' sacerdoti e de' Leviti, per le lor genealogie, [distinti] per le lor famiglie paterne, [fu fatta] dall'età di vent'anni in su, per li loro ufficii, secondo i loro spartimenti.)

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.

18 [La detta porzione] fu eziandio [data] a tutta la moltitudine di tutte le lor famiglie, mogli, figliuoli e figliuole, descritti per genealogie (perciocchè in su la fede di coloro essi si consacravano alle cose sante).

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.

19 Parimente, quant'è a' sacerdoti, figliuoli d'Aaronne, che [stavano] ne' campi de' contadi delle lor città, in ciascuna città [v'erano degli] uomini deputati per nome, per dar le porzioni a tutti i maschi d'infra i sacerdoti; ed [in somma] a chiunque d'infra i Leviti era annoverato per le lor genealogie.

[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.

20 Così fece Ezechia per tutto Giuda; e fece ciò che [è] buono, e diritto, e leale davanti al Signore Iddio suo.

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

21 E si adoperò con tutto il cuor suo in tutta l'opera ch'egli imprese per lo servigio della Casa di Dio, e nella Legge, e nei comandamenti, ricercando l'Iddio suo; e prosperò.

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.