Exodus 23
1 വ്യാജവർത്തമാനം പരത്തരുതു; കള്ളസ്സാക്ഷിയായിരിപ്പാൻ ദുഷ്ടനോടുകൂടെ ചേരരുതു.
2 ബഹുജനത്തെ അനുസരിച്ചു ദോഷം ചെയ്യരുതു; ന്യായം മറിച്ചുകളവാൻ ബഹുജനപക്ഷം ചേർന്നു വ്യവഹാരത്തിൽ സാക്ഷ്യം പറയരുതു:
3 ദരിദ്രന്റെ വ്യവഹാരത്തിൽ അവനോടു പക്ഷം കാണിക്കരുതു.
4 നിന്റെ ശത്രുവിന്റെ കാളയോ കഴുതയോ വഴിതെറ്റിയതായി കണ്ടാൽ അതിനെ അവന്റെ അടുക്കൽ തിരികെ കൊണ്ടുപോകേണം.
5 നിന്നെ ദ്വേഷിക്കുന്നവന്റെ കഴുത ചുമടിൻ കീഴെ കിടക്കുന്നതു കണ്ടാൽ അവനെ വിചാരിച്ചു അതിനെ അഴിച്ചുവിടുവാൻ മടിച്ചാലും അഴിച്ചുവിടുവാൻ അവന്നു സഹായം ചെയ്യേണം.
6 നിങ്ങളുടെ ഇടയിലുള്ള ദരിദ്രന്റെ വ്യവഹാരത്തിൽ അവന്റെ ന്യായം മറിച്ചുകളയരുതു.
7 കള്ളക്കാര്യം വിട്ടു അകന്നിരിക്ക; കുറ്റമില്ലാത്തവനെയും നീതിമാനെയും കൊല്ലരുതു; ഞാൻ ദുഷ്ടനെ നീതീകരിക്കയില്ലല്ലോ.
8 സമ്മാനം കാഴ്ചയുള്ളവരെ കുരുടാക്കുകയും നീതിമാന്മാരുടെ വാക്കുകളെ മറിച്ചുകളകയും ചെയ്യുന്നതുകൊണ്ടു നീ സമ്മാനം വാങ്ങരുതു.
9 പരദേശിയെ ഉപദ്രവിക്കരുതു: നിങ്ങൾ മിസ്രയീംദേശത്തു പരദേശികളായിരുന്നതുകൊണ്ടു പരദേശിയുടെ അനുഭവം അറിയുന്നുവല്ലോ.
10 ആറു സംവത്സരം നിന്റെ നിലം വിതെച്ചു വിളവു എടുത്തുകൊൾക.
11 ഏഴാം സംവത്സരത്തിലോ അതു ഉഴവുചെയ്യാതെ വെറുതെ ഇട്ടേക്ക; നിന്റെ ജനത്തിലെ ദരിദ്രന്മാർ അഹോവൃത്തി കഴിക്കട്ടെ; അവർ ശേഷിപ്പിക്കുന്നതു കാട്ടുമൃഗങ്ങൾ തിന്നട്ടെ. നിന്റെ മുന്തിരിത്തോട്ടവും ഒലിവുവൃക്ഷവും സംബന്ധിച്ചും അങ്ങനെ തന്നേ ചെയ്ക.
12 ആറു ദിവസം വേല ചെയ്ക; ഏഴാം ദിവസം നിന്റെ കാളയും കഴുതയും വിശ്രമിപ്പാനും നിന്റെ ദാസിയുടെ പുത്രനും പരദേശിയും ആശ്വസിപ്പാനും വേണ്ടി നീ സ്വസ്ഥമായിരിക്കേണം.
13 ഞാൻ നിങ്ങളോടു കല്പിച്ച എല്ലാറ്റിലും സൂക്ഷ്മതയോടിരിപ്പിൻ; അന്യ ദൈവങ്ങളുടെ നാമം കീർത്തിക്കരുതു; അതു നിന്റെ വായിൽനിന്നു കേൾക്കയും അരുതു.
14 സംവത്സരത്തിൽ മൂന്നു പ്രാവശ്യം എനിക്കു ഉത്സവം ആചരിക്കേണം.
15 പുളിപ്പില്ലാത്ത അപ്പത്തിന്റെ ഉത്സവം ആചരിക്കേണം; ഞാൻ നിന്നോടു കല്പിച്ചതുപോലെ ആബീബ് മാസത്തിൽ നിശ്ചയിച്ച സമയത്തു ഏഴു ദിവസം പുളിപ്പില്ലാത്ത അപ്പം തിന്നുക; അന്നല്ലോ നീ മിസ്രയീമിൽനിന്നു പുറപ്പെട്ടു പോന്നതു. എന്നാൽ വെറുങ്കയ്യോടെ നിങ്ങൾ എന്റെ മുമ്പാകെ വരരുതു.
16 വയലിൽ വിതെച്ച വിതയുടെ ആദ്യഫലമെടുക്കുന്ന കൊയ്ത്തുപെരുനാളും ആണ്ടറുതിയിൽ വയലിൽ നിന്നു നിന്റെ വേലയുടെ ഫലം കൂട്ടിത്തീരുമ്പോൾ കായ്കനിപ്പെരുനാളും ആചരിക്കേണം.
17 സംവത്സരത്തിൽ മൂന്നു പ്രാവശ്യം നിന്റെ ആണുങ്ങൾ എല്ലാം കർത്താവായ യഹോവയുടെ മുമ്പാകെ വരേണം.
18 എന്റെ യാഗരക്തം പുളിപ്പുള്ള അപ്പത്തോടുകൂടെ അർപ്പിക്കരുതു; എന്റെ യാഗ മേദസ്സ് ഉഷഃകാലംവരെ ഇരിക്കയുമരുതു.
19 നിന്റെ ഭൂമിയുടെ ആദ്യവിളവുകളിലെ പ്രഥമഫലം നിന്റെ ദൈവമായ യഹോവയുടെ ആലയത്തിൽ കൊണ്ടുവരേണം. ആട്ടിൻ കുട്ടിയെ തള്ളയുടെ പാലിൽ പാകം ചെയ്യരുതു.
20 ഇതാ, വഴിയിൽ നിന്നെ കാക്കേണ്ടതിന്നും ഞാൻ നിയമിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലത്തേക്കു നിന്നെ കൊണ്ടുപോകേണ്ടതിന്നും ഞാൻ ഒരു ദൂതനെ നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ അയക്കുന്നു.
21 നീ അവനെ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചു അവന്റെ വാക്കു കേൾക്കേണം; അവനോടു വികടിക്കരുതു; അവൻ നിങ്ങളുടെ അതിക്രമങ്ങളെ ക്ഷമിക്കയില്ല; എന്റെ നാമം അവനിൽ ഉണ്ടു.
22 എന്നാൽ നീ അവന്റെ വാക്കു ശ്രദ്ധയോടെ കേട്ടു ഞാൻ കല്പിക്കുന്നതൊക്കെയും ചെയ്താൽ നിന്നെ പകെക്കുന്നവരെ ഞാൻ പകെക്കും; നിന്നെ ഞെരുക്കുന്നവരെ ഞാൻ ഞെരുക്കും.
23 എന്റെ ദൂതൻ നിനക്കു മുമ്പായി നടന്നു നിന്നെ അമോർയ്യർ, ഹിത്യർ, പെരിസ്യർ, കനാന്യർ, ഹിവ്യർ, യെബൂസ്യർ എന്നിവരുടെ ദേശത്തേക്കു കൊണ്ടുപോകും; അവരെ ഞാൻ നിർമ്മൂലമാക്കും.
24 അവരുടെ ദേവന്മാരെ നമസ്കരിക്കരുതു; അവയെ സേവിക്കരുതു; അവരുടെ പ്രവൃത്തികൾ പോലെ പ്രവർത്തിക്കരുതു; അവരെ അശേഷം നശിപ്പിച്ചു അവരുടെ വിഗ്രഹങ്ങളെ തകർത്തുകളയേണം.
25 നിങ്ങളുടെ ദൈവമായ യഹോവയെ തന്നേ സേവിപ്പിൻ; എന്നാൽ അവൻ നിന്റെ അപ്പത്തെയും വെള്ളത്തെയും അനുഗ്രഹിക്കും; ഞാൻ രോഗങ്ങളെ നിന്റെ നടുവിൽനിന്നു അകറ്റിക്കളയും.
26 ഗർഭം അലസുന്നവളും മച്ചിയും നിന്റെ ദേശത്തു ഉണ്ടാകയില്ല; നിന്റെ ആയുഷ്കാലം ഞാൻ പൂർത്തിയാക്കും.
27 എന്റെ ഭീതിയെ ഞാൻ നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ അയച്ചു നീ ചെല്ലുന്നേടത്തുള്ള ജാതികളെ ഒക്കെയും അമ്പരപ്പിക്കയും നിന്റെ സകല ശത്രുക്കളെയും നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽനിന്നു ഓടിക്കയും ചെയ്യും.
28 നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽനിന്നു ഹിവ്യനെയും കനാന്യനെയും ഹിത്യനെയും ഓടിച്ചുകളവാൻ ഞാൻ നിനക്കു മുമ്പായി കടുന്നലിനെ അയക്കും.
29 ദേശം ശൂന്യമാകാതെയും കാട്ടുമൃഗം നിനക്കു ബാധയായി പെരുകാതെയും ഇരിപ്പാൻ ഞാൻ അവരെ ഒരു സംവത്സരത്തിന്നകത്തു നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ നിന്നു ഓടിച്ചുകളകയില്ല.
30 നീ സന്താനസമ്പന്നമായി ദേശം അടക്കുന്നതുവരെ ഞാൻ അവരെ കുറേശ്ശ, കുറേശ്ശ നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ നിന്നു ഓടിച്ചുകളയും.
31 ഞാൻ നിന്റെ ദേശം ചെങ്കടൽതുടങ്ങി ഫെലിസ്ത്യരുടെ കടൽവരെയും മരുഭൂമിതുടങ്ങി നദിവരെയും ആക്കും; ദേശത്തിലെ നിവാസികളെ നിങ്ങളുടെ കയ്യിൽ ഏല്പിക്കും; നീ അവരെ നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ നിന്നു ഓടിച്ചുകളയേണം.
32 അവരോടു എങ്കിലും അവരുടെ ദേവന്മാരോടു എങ്കിലും നീ ഉടമ്പടി ചെയ്യരുതു.
33 നീ എന്നോടു പാപം ചെയ്‍വാൻ അവർ ഹേതുവായിത്തീരാതിരിക്കേണ്ടതിന്നു അവർ നിന്റെ ദേശത്തു വസിക്കരുതു. നീ അവരുടെ ദേവന്മാരെ സേവിച്ചാൽ അതു നിനക്കു കണിയായി തീരും.
1 Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.
2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
3 Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
4 If thou meet thine enemy’s ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.
5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
6 Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.
7 Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
9 Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
10 And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
11 But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
13 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.
15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.
18 Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.
19 The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.
25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
26 There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
27 I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
2 Kings 23 in Tamil and English
1 ત્યારબાદ રાજાએ પોતાની સાથે યહોવાના મંદિરમાં આવવા માટે સંદેશવાહકો મોકલીને યરૂશાલેમના તથા યહૂદાના વડીલો તથા આગેવાનોને બોલાવ્યા.
And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
2 યરૂશાલેમ અને યહૂદાના સર્વ યાજકો, પ્રબોધકો, અને નાનાથી મોટા સર્વ લોકો મંદિર આગળ ભેગા થયા. રાજાએ તેઓની આગળ મંદિરમાંથી મળી આવેલું દેવના નિયમશાસ્ત્રનું પુસ્તક પૂરેપૂરું વાચી સંભળાવ્યું.
And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.
3 ત્યારબાદ રાજાએ મંચ પર ઊભા રહીને, તેમને યહોવાને અનુસરવાનું કહ્યું. અને તેના બધા આદેશો અને હુકમોનું પાલન કરવાનું અને તેમની બધી સુચનાઓને તેમના પૂર્ણ હૃદયથી અને તેમના પૂર્ણ આત્માથી અનુસરવાનું કહ્યું. અને એ રીતે આ પુસ્તકમાં લખેલા કરારની શરતોનો પૂરેપૂરો અમલ કરવાની પ્રતિજ્ઞા કરી; અને બધા લોકોએ પણ એ કરારનું પાલન કરવાની પ્રતિજ્ઞા લીધી.
And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 એ પછી રાજાએ વડા યાજક હિલ્કિયાને તથા મદદનીશ યાજકને તેમજ દ્વારના રક્ષકોને બઆલદેવની અશેરાદેવીની તેમજ આકાશનાં નક્ષત્રોની પૂજામાં વપરાતી બધી સામગ્રી યહોવાના મંદિરમાંથી હઠાવી લેવાનો હુકમ કર્યો, અને તે બધીને તેણે યરૂશાલેમ બહાર કિદ્રોનનાં કોતરમાં બાળી મુકાવી, અને તેની રાખ બેથેલ લઈ જવામાં આવી.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
5 તેણે યહૂદાના રાજાઓએ, યહૂદાના નગરોમાંના અને યરૂશાલેમની આસપાસનાં ઉચ્ચસ્થાનોમાં ધૂપ અર્પણો કરવા નીમેલા વિધમીર્ર્ યાજકોને બરતરફ કર્યા, આમાં બધાં જેમણે બઆલમાં અર્પણો કર્યા હતા તે, સૂર્ય,ચંદ્ર, નક્ષત્રો અને આકાશના બધાં સમૂહોનો સમાવેશ થતો હતો.
And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 યરૂશાલેમના મંદિરમાંથી અશેરાદેવીની મૂર્તિને યરૂશાલેમની બહાર કિદ્રોનના કોતરમાં લઈ જઈને બાળીને ભસ્મ કરી નાખી અને તેની રાખ ગાઝા નજીક સામાન્ય લોકોની કબરો પર ફેંકી દીધી.
And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
7 તેણે યહોવાના મંદિરમાં આવેલું દેવદાસો અને દેવદાસીઓ માટેનું ઘર, જેમાં સ્રીઓ અશેરા માટે વસ્ત્રો વણતી, તે તોડી પાડયું.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
8 યહૂદાના નગરોમાંથી તેણે બધા યાજકોને યરૂશાલેમમાં ભેગા કર્યા, અને ગેબાથી બેર-શેબા સુધી સર્વત્ર તેઓ જ્યાં જ્યાં અર્પણ સ્તંભ અને અર્પણ વેદીઓ હતી, તે બધાં તેણે ષ્ટ કર્યા. પછી તેણે નગરના શાસક યહોશુઆના દરવાજા પાસે આવેલા ઉચ્ચસ્થાનો તોડી નાખ્યા. જે મુખ્ય નગર દરવાજાની ડાબી બાજુએ હતો.
And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beer-sheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.
9 પરંતુ એ થાનકોના યાજકો યરૂશાલેમમાં આવેલી વેદીની પૂજા કરવા આવ્યા નહોતા, તેઓએ તેમના કુટુંબો વચ્ચે બેખમીર રોટલી ખાધી.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
10 હવે પછી કોઈ પણ વ્યકિત પોતાના પુત્ર કે પુત્રીને મારી નાખીને તેનું બલિદાન તરીકે અર્પણ ન કરી શકે, કારણકે રાજાએ બેન-હિન્નોમની ખીણમાં આવેલી તોફેથની વેદીને પણ તોડી પાડી હતી.
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.
11 તેણે નાથાન મેલેખના નિવાસસ્થાન પાસે મંદરિના મુખ્ય પ્રવેશદ્વાર આગળ આવેલી ઘોડાઓની પ્રતિમાઓને તોડી પાડી. તેણે સૂર્ય દેવને સમર્પિત થયેલા રથોને બાળી મૂક્યા.
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
12 આહાઝના ઉપરના ઓરડા પર યહૂદાના રાજાઓએ બંધાવેલી વેદીઓ હતી, તેને તોડી પાડી. ત્યાર પછી મંદિરના બંને આંગણામાં મનાશ્શાએ બાંધેલી બે વેદીઓ હતી, તે પણ તેણે તોડી નાખી, એ સર્વને ભાંગીને ભૂકો કર્યો અને એ ભૂકો કિદ્રોનની ખીણમાં ફેંકી દીધો.
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
13 વળી તેણે ઇસ્રાએલની પૂર્વ તરફના ઉચ્ચસ્થાનકો અપવિત્ર કર્યા. તે ઇસ્રાએલના સુલેમાન રાજાએ બંધાવેલી “વિનાશક ટેકરીઓની” દક્ષિણે હતાં જે તેણે આશ્તોરેથ માટે બંધાવી હતી જે સિદોનીઓની ભયાનક દેવી હતી, મોઆબીઓના ભયાનક દેવ કમોશ અને આમ્મોનીઓના ભયાનક દેવ, મિલ્કોમના સ્થાનકો પણ તોડી પાડ્યાં.
And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.
14 તેણે સ્તંભો તોડી પાડયા અને અશેરાદેવીનાં પ્રતીકો કાપી નાખ્યાં. તેઓ જે જગ્યાએ ઊભાં હતાં તે જગ્યાઓ માણાસોનાં હાડકાંઓથી પૂરી દીધી.
And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
15 એ જ રીતે બેથેલની વેદી અને ઉચ્ચસ્થાનો, જે ઇસ્રાએલને પાપ કરવા પ્રેરનાર નબાટના પુત્ર યરોબઆમે બંધાવી હતી તેનો પણ તેણે નાશ કર્યો, તેના પથ્થરોને ભેગા કરીને ભાંગીને ભૂકો કરી ફેકી દીધો અને અશેરાદેવીની બધી નિશાનીઓને બાળી મૂકી.
Moreover the altar that was at Beth-el, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
16 જ્યારે યોશિયા બીજી તરફ ફર્યો ત્યારે તેણે એક ટેકરી પર કેટલીક કબરો જોઈ, આ રીતે, જે રીતે દેવના માણસે ભવિષ્યવાણી ભાખી હતી તે પ્રમાણે જ તેણે વેદીને ષ્ટ કરી.
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
17 અને તેણે પૂછયું, “ત્યાં પેલું સ્મારક શાનું છે?”નગરના લોકોએ કહ્યું, “એ તો જે દેવના માણસ એલિયાએ યહૂદાથી આવીને તમે બેથેલની વેદીના જે હાલ કર્યા તેની અગમ વાણી ભાખી હતી તેની કબર છે.”
Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.
18 તેણે કહ્યું, “એ ભલે રહી.” કોઈ એનાં હાડકાં ખસેડશો નહિ.” તેથી તેઓએ તેનાં હાડકાં છોડી દીધાં અને સમરૂનથી આવેલા દેવના માણસનાં હાડકાંને પણ કોઈ અડયું નહિ.
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
19 વળી, યોશિયાએ સમરૂનનાં નગરોમાં ઇસ્રાએલના રાજાઓએ બનાવેલા ઉચ્ચસ્થાનકોનો નાશ કરીને જે યહવોનો રોષ વહોરી લીધો હતો, તે બધાંની પણ તેણે બેથેલમાં કરી હતી તેવી જ દશા કરી.
And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Beth-el.
20 એ ટેકરી ઉપરનાં થાનકોના બધા યાજકોનો તેણે વેદીઓ પર વધ કર્યો, અને તે વેદીઓ પર તેણે માણસનાં હાડકાં બાળ્યાં, પછી તે યરૂશાલેમ પાછો ગયો.
And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men’s bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
21 રાજાએ સમગ્ર પ્રજાને આ પ્રમાણે આજ્ઞા કરી, “તમારા દેવ યહોવાના માનમાં, કરારના આ પુસ્તકમાં ઠરાવ્યા મુજબ, પાસ્ખાપર્વ ઊજવો.”
And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.
22 ન્યાયાધીશોના સમયથી કયારેય આવો પાસ્ખાપર્વ ઊજવાયો નહોતો, ઇસ્રાએલ કે યહૂદાના એક પણ રાજા દ્વારા પણ નહિ.
Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;
23 પણ યોશિયાના અમલના 18 મે વષેર્ જ આ પાસ્ખાપર્વ યહોવાના માનમાં યરૂશાલેમમાં ઊજવાયો.
But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem.
24 આ ઉપરાંત યોશિયાએ યાજક હિલ્કિયાને યહોવાના મંદિરમાંથી મળેલી પોથીમાંના નિયમશાસ્ત્રાનાં વચનોનું પાલન કરવા માટે કહ્યું અને બધાં તાંત્રિકો, મેલી વિદ્યાના ઉપાસકો, કુળદેવો અને યહૂદાના પ્રદેશમાં અને યરૂશાલેમમાં જોવામાં આવતી બધી મૂર્તિઓ જે અનાદરને પાત્ર હોય તે બધી બાળી નાખીને તેનો નાશ કરીને તે જગ્યા સાફ કરી નાખી.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
25 એના પહેલાં કે પછી એવો કોઈ રાજા થયો નથી, જેણે મૂસાના નિયમશાસ્ત્રનું પાલન કરીને પૂરા હૃદયથી અને સંપૂર્ણ બળથી યહોવાની ભકિત કરી હોય.”
And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the Lord with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose there any like him.
26 તેમ છતાં મનાશ્શાના ખરાબ કૃત્યોને કારણે યહૂદા વિરૂદ્ધ યહોવાને ચઢેલો ભારે રોષ હજુ શમ્યો ન હતો.
Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
27 યહોવાએ જાહેર કર્યુ કે, “હું યહૂદીઓને પણ ઇસ્રાએલીઓની જેમ મારા સાન્નિધ્યથી દૂર હડસેલી મુકીશ. મેં પસંદ કરેલા આ નગર યરૂશાલેમને તેમજ યહોવાના જે મંદિરને વિષે મેં એમ કહ્યું હતું કે, “ત્યાં મારું નામ કાયમ રહેશે.” તેને પણ હું દૂર કરીશ.”
And the Lord said, I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and will cast off this city Jerusalem which I have chosen, and the house of which I said, My name shall be there.
28 યહૂદાના રાજા યોશિયાનાઁ શાસનનાં બીજા બનાવો યહૂદાના રાજાઓના ઇતિહાસ નામક પુસ્તકમાં લખાયેલાઁ છે.યોશિયાનું મૃત્યુ
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
29 એના અમલ દરમ્યાન મિસરના રાજા ફારુન નકોહ આશ્શૂરના રાજાને મદદ કરવા ફ્રાત નદી આગળ જવા નીકળ્યો હતો અને રાજા યોશિયાએ તેને માર્ગમાં અટકાવ્યો હતો; નકોહ રાજાએ તેને જોયો ત્યારે તેણે એને મગિદ્દોમાં મારી નાખ્યો.
In his days Pharaoh-nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.
30 તેના અધિકારીઓ તેના મૃતદેહને રથમાં મૂકીને મગિદ્દોથી યરૂશાલેમ લાવ્યા અને તેના મૃત્યુ અગાઉથી તેણે પસંદ કરી રાખેલી કબરમાં તેને દફનાવ્યો. પછી તેના પુત્ર યહોઆહાઝને તેના પિતાની જગ્યાએ નવા રાજા તરીકે પસંદ કરીને અભિષ્કિત કર્યો.
And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.
31 યહૂદાનો નવો રાજા યહોઆહાઝ ગાદીએ બેઠો, ત્યારે તે ત્રેવીસ વર્ષનો હતો, તેણે યરૂશાલેમમાં ત્રણ મહિના રાજ કર્યું, તેની માતાનું નામ હમૂટાલ હતું. તે લિબ્નાહના યમિર્યાની પુત્રી હતી.
Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
32 યહોઆહાઝે પોતાના પિતૃઓની જેમ યહોવાની દૃષ્ટિએ અયોગ્ય ગણાય એવું આચરણ કર્યું.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.
33 ફારુન નકોહે તેને યરૂશાલેમ કબજે કરતો અટકાવવા માટે હમાથમાં કેદ પકડયો અને પછી તેણે દેશ પર 7,500 પાઉંડ ચાંદી અને 75 પાઉંડ સોનાનો કર નાખ્યો.
And Pharaoh-nechoh put him in bands at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of an hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.
34 ફારુને યોશિયાના પુત્ર એલ્યાકીમને તેના પિતા યોશિયા પછી રાજા બનાવ્યો અને તેનું નામ બદલીને યહોયાકીમ રાખ્યું. યહોઆહાઝને તે મિસર લઈ ગયો અને ત્યાં તેનું અવસાન થયું.
And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the room of Josiah his father, and turned his name to Jehoiakim, and took Jehoahaz away: and he came to Egypt, and died there.
35 યહોયાકીમે ફારુનને સોનું અને ચાંદી આપ્યાં.પરંતુ લોકો પર, તેમના દરજ્જા પ્રમાણે કર નાખ્યો, તેણે તેમ કર્યું જેથી તે ફારુનની માંગોને પહોંચી વળે.
And Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of every one according to his taxation, to give it unto Pharaoh-nechoh.
36 યહોયાકીમ ગાદીએ આવ્યો ત્યારે તેની ઉંમર 25 વર્ષની હતી. અને તેણે યરૂશાલેમમાં 11 વર્ષ રાજ કર્યુ. તેની માતાનું નામ ઝબીદાહ હતું અને તે રૂમાહના પેદાયાની પુત્રી હતી.
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.
37 યહોયાકીમે પોતાના પિતૃઓની જેમ યહોવાની દૃષ્ટિએ અયોગ્ય ગણાય તેવું આચરણ કર્યું.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.