¹وارسل الملك فجمعوا اليه كل شيوخ يهوذا واورشليم.

¹The king sent, and they gathered to him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

²وصعد الملك الى بيت الرب وجميع رجال يهوذا وكل سكان اورشليم معه والكهنة والانبياء وكل الشعب من الصغير الى الكبير وقرأ في آذانهم كل كلام سفر الشريعة الذي وجد في بيت الرب.

²The king went up to the house of Yahweh, 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 Yahweh.

³ووقف الملك على المنبر وقطع عهدا امام الرب للذهاب وراء الرب ولحفظ وصاياه وشهاداته وفرائضه بكل القلب وكل النفس لاقامة كلام هذا العهد المكتوب في هذا السفر. ووقف جميع الشعب عند العهد.

³The king stood by the pillar, and made a covenant before Yahweh, to walk after Yahweh, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and all his soul, to confirm the words of this covenant that were written in this book: and all the people stood to the covenant.

⁴وامر الملك حلقيا الكاهن العظيم وكهنة الفرقة الثانية وحراس الباب ان يخرجوا من هيكل الرب جميع الآنية المصنوعة للبعل وللسارية ولكل اجناد السماء واحرقها خارج اورشليم في حقول قدرون وحمل رمادها الى بيت ايل.

⁴The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

⁵ولاشى كهنة الاصنام الذين جعلهم ملوك يهوذا ليوقدوا على المرتفعات في مدن يهوذا وما يحيط باورشليم والذين يوقدون للبعل للشمس والقمر والمنازل ولكل اجناد السماء.

⁵He 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 around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

⁶واخرج السارية من بيت الرب خارج اورشليم الى وادي قدرون واحرقها في وادي قدرون ودقها الى ان صارت غبارا وذرى الغبار على قبور عامة الشعب.

⁶He brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

⁷وهدم بيوت المأبونين التي عند بيت الرب حيث كانت النساء ينسجن بيوتا للسارية.

⁷He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

⁸وجاء بجميع الكهنة من مدن يهوذا ونجس المرتفعات حيث كان الكهنة يوقدون من جبع الى بئر سبع وهدم مرتفعات الابواب التي عند مدخل باب يشوع رئيس المدينة التي عن اليسار في باب المدينة.

⁸He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

⁹الا ان كهنة المرتفعات لم يصعدوا الى مذبح الرب في اورشليم بل اكلوا فطيرا بين اخوتهم.

⁹Nevertheless the priests of the high places didn’t come up to the altar of Yahweh in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

¹⁰ونجس توفة التي في وادي بني هنوم لكي لا يعبّر احد ابنه او ابنته في النار لمولك.

¹⁰He 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.

¹¹واباد الخيل التي اعطاها ملوك يهوذا للشمس عند مدخل بيت الرب عند مخدع نثنملك الخصي الذي في الاروقة ومركبات الشمس احرقها بالنار.

¹¹He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

¹²والمذابح التي على سطح عليّة آحاز التي عملها ملوك يهوذا والمذابح التي عملها منسّى في داري بيت الرب هدمها الملك وركض من هناك وذرى غبارها في وادي قدرون.

¹²The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Yahweh, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

¹³والمرتفعات التي قبالة اورشليم التي عن يمين جبل الهلاك التي بناها سليمان ملك اسرائيل لعشتورث رجاسة الصيدونيين ولكموش رجاسة الموآبيين ولملكوم كراهة بني عمون نجسها الملك.

¹³The the king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

¹⁴وكسّر التماثيل وقطع السواري وملأ مكانها من عظام الناس.

¹⁴He broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and filled their places with the bones of men.

¹⁵وكذلك المذبح الذي في بيت ايل في المرتفعات التي عملها يربعام بن نباط الذي جعل اسرائيل يخطئ فذانك المذبح والمرتفعة هدمها واحرق المرتفعة وسحقها حتى صارت غبارا واحرق السارية.

¹⁵Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.

¹⁶والتفت يوشيا فرأى القبور التي هناك في الجبل فارسل واخذ العظام من القبور واحرقها على المذبح ونجّسه حسب كلام الرب الذي نادى به رجل الله الذي نادى بهذا الكلام.

¹⁶As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of Yahweh which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

¹⁷وقال ما هذه الصوّة التي ارى. فقال له رجال المدينة هي قبر رجل الله الذي جاء من يهوذا ونادى بهذه الامور التي عملت على مذبح بيت ايل.

¹⁷Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

¹⁸فقال دعوه. لا يحركنّ احد عظامه. فتركوا عظامه وعظام النبي الذي جاء من السامرة.

¹⁸He said, “Let him be! Let no man move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

¹⁹وكذا جميع بيوت المرتفعات التي في مدن السامرة التي عملها ملوك اسرائيل للاغاظة ازالها يوشيا وعمل بها حسب جميع الاعمال التي عملها في بيت ايل.

¹⁹All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.

²⁰وذبح جميع كهنة المترفعات التي هناك على المذابح واحرق عظام الناس عليها ثم رجع الى اورشليم

²⁰He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

²¹وأمر الملك جميع الشعب قائلا اعملوا فصحا للرب الهكم كما هو مكتوب في سفر العهد هذا.

²¹The king commanded all the people, saying, “Keep the Passover to Yahweh your God, as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

²²انه لم يعمل مثل هذا الفصح منذ ايام القضاة الذين حكموا على اسرائيل ولا في كل ايام ملوك اسرائيل وملوك يهوذا.

²²Surely there was not kept such a Passover from the days of the judges who judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

²³ولكن في السنة الثامنة عشرة للملك يوشيا عمل هذا الفصح للرب في اورشليم.

²³but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this Passover kept to Yahweh in Jerusalem.

²⁴وكذلك السحرة والعرافون والترافيم والاصنام وجميع الرجاسات التي رئيت في ارض يهوذا وفي اورشليم ابادها يوشيا ليقيم كلام الشريعة المكتوب في السفر الذي وجده حلقيا الكاهن في بيت الرب.

²⁴Moreover Josiah removed those who had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

²⁵ولم يكن قبله ملك مثله قد رجع الى الرب بكل قلبه وكل نفسه وكل قوته حسب كل شريعة موسى وبعده لم يقم مثله.

²⁵Like him was there no king before him, who turned to Yahweh 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.

²⁶ولكن الرب لم يرجع عن حمو غضبه العظيم لان غضبه حمي على يهوذا من اجل جميع الاغاظات التي اغاظه اياها منسّى.

²⁶Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

²⁷فقال الرب اني انزع يهوذا ايضا من امامي كما نزعت اسرائيل وارفض هذه المدينة التي اخترتها اورشليم والبيت الذي قلت يكون اسمي فيه.

²⁷Yahweh said, “I will remove Judah also out of my sight, as I have removed Israel, and I will cast off this city which I have chosen, even Jerusalem, and the house of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

²⁸وبقية امور يوشيا وكل ما عمل أما هي مكتوبة في سفر اخبار الايام لملوك يهوذا.

²⁸Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all that he did, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

²⁹في ايامه صعد فرعون نخو ملك مصر على ملك اشور الى نهر الفرات. فصعد الملك يوشيا للقائه فقتله في مجدّو حين رآه.

²⁹In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

³⁰واركبه عبيده ميتا من مجدّو وجاءوا به الى اورشليم ودفنوه في قبره. فاخذ شعب الارض يهوآحاز بن يوشيا ومسحوه وملكوه عوضا عن ابيه

³⁰His servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. The people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s place.

³¹كان يهوآحاز ابن ثلاث وعشرين سنة حين ملك وملك ثلاثة اشهر في اورشليم واسم امه حموطل بنت ارميا من لبنة.

³¹Jehoahaz was twenty-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.

³²فعمل الشر في عيني الرب حسب كل ما عمله آباؤه.

³²He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.

³³واسره فرعون نخو في ربلة في ارض حماة لئلا يملك في اورشليم وغرّم الارض بمئة وزنة من الفضة ووزنة من الذهب.

³³Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

³⁴وملّك فرعون نخو الياقيم بن يوشيا عوضا عن يوشيا ابيه وغيّر اسمه الى يهوياقيم واخذ يهوآحاز وجاء الى مصر فمات هناك.

³⁴Pharaoh Necoh made Eliakim the son of Josiah king in the place of Josiah his father, and changed his name to Jehoiakim: but he took Jehoahaz away; and he came to Egypt, and died there.

³⁵ودفع يهوياقيم الفضة والذهب لفرعون الا انه قوّم الارض لدفع الفضة بأمر فرعون. كل واحد حسب تقويمه. فطالب شعب الارض بالفضة والذهب ليدفع لفرعون نخو

³⁵Jehoiakim 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 everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

³⁶كان يهوياقيم ابن خمس وعشرين سنة حين ملك. وملك احدى عشرة سنة في اورشليم. واسم امه زبيدة بنت فداية من رومة.

³⁶Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

³⁷وعمل الشر في عيني الرب حسب كل ما عمل آباؤه

³⁷He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, according to all that his fathers had done.