¹Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

¹In Ezekija pošlje k vsemu Izraelu in Judi ter napiše liste tudi Efraimu in Manaseju, da bi prišli v hišo GOSPODOVO v Jeruzalem praznovat pasho GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu.

²For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the Passover in the second month.

²Kajti kralj se je bil posvetoval z vsemi poglavarji in z vsem zborom v Jeruzalemu in sklenil, naj se praznuje pasha v drugem mesecu.

³For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.

³Niso je namreč mogli praznovati tisti čas, ker se ni posvetilo zadosti duhovnikov, pa ljudstvo se tudi ni bilo zbralo v Jeruzalemu.

⁴The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.

⁴In stvar se je zdela prava kralju in vsemu zboru.

⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem: for they had not kept it in great numbers in such sort as it is written.

⁵In so ustanovili, da bi se to oklicalo po vsem Izraelu, od Bersebe do Dana, da naj pridejo praznovat pasho GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu, v Jeruzalem; zakaj že dolgo časa je niso praznovali tako, kakor je predpisano.

⁶So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant that have escaped of you out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.

⁶In brzi sli so šli z listi od kralja in njegovih poglavarjev po vsem Izraelovem in Judovem, poročajoč po zapovedi kraljevi takole: Sinovi Izraelovi, preobrnite se h GOSPODU, Abrahamovemu, Izakovemu in Izraelovemu Bogu, da se povrne k ostanku vas, ki ste ubežali roki kraljev asirskih.

⁷Don’t be like your fathers, and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

⁷In ne bodite kakor očetje vaši in kakor bratje vaši, ki so se izneverili GOSPODU, očetov svojih Bogu, da jih je izdal opustošenju, kakor vidite.

⁸Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

⁸Sedaj torej ne bodite trdovratni kakor očetje vaši, temuč podajte roko svojo GOSPODU in pridite v njegovo svetišče, ki ga je posvetil za vekomaj, ter služite GOSPODU, svojemu Bogu, da se odvrne od vas togota jeze njegove.

⁹For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children shall find compassion before those who led them captive, and shall come again into this land: for Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

⁹Kajti če se preobrnete h GOSPODU, zadobe bratje in otroci vaši usmiljenje pred tistimi, ki so jih zavedli v ujetništvo, in smeli se bodo povrniti v to deželo. Zakaj GOSPOD, Bog vaš, je usmiljen in milosten ter ne odvrne obličja od vas, ako se k njemu preobrnete.

¹⁰So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun: but they ridiculed them, and mocked them.

¹⁰In brzoteki so šli od mesta do mesta po deželi Efraimovi in Manasejevi prav do Zebulona; ali smejali so se jim in jih zasmehovali.

¹¹Nevertheless certain men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.

¹¹Ali vsaj nekateri Aserjevi, Manasejevi in Zebulonovi so se ponižali in prišli v Jeruzalem.

¹²Also on Judah came the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of Yahweh.

¹²Tudi na Judovem je bila roka Božja, da jim je dal eno srce, da izpolnijo zapoved kralja in knezov po besedi GOSPODOVI.

¹³Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

¹³Zbralo se je torej v Jeruzalemu mnogo ljudstva, da bi obhajali praznik opresnikov v drugem mesecu, jako velik zbor.

¹⁴They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.

¹⁴In vzdignejo se in razvale oltarje, ki so bili v Jeruzalemu, in odpravijo vse kadilne oltarje ter jih pomečejo v potok Kidron.

¹⁵Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.

¹⁵In zakoljejo pasho štirinajsti dan drugega meseca. In duhovniki in leviti so se sramovali ter se posvetili; potem so prinašali daritve v hišo GOSPODOVO.

¹⁶They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.

¹⁶In stali so na svojem mestu po svojem redu, soglasno s postavo Mojzesa, moža Božjega: duhovniki so kropili kri, prejemajoč jo iz rok levitov.

¹⁷For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

¹⁷Kajti bili so v zboru mnogi, ki se niso bili očistili; zato je bilo levitom klati daritve pashe za vse, ki niso bili čisti, da bi jih posvetili GOSPODU.

¹⁸For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

¹⁸Veliko ljudstva namreč, zlasti mnogi iz Efraima in Manaseja, Isaharja in Zebulona, se niso bili očistili, vendar so jedli velikonočno jagnje, čeprav ne, kakor je pisano. Ali Ezekija je molil zanje, govoreč: GOSPOD, ki je dobrotljiv, naj odpusti vsakemu,

¹⁹who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

¹⁹ki je pripravil srce svoje, da išče Boga, GOSPODA, očetov svojih Boga, čeprav ni očiščen po očiščevanju svetišča.

²⁰Yahweh listened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.

²⁰In GOSPOD je uslišal Ezekija in je ozdravil ljudstvo.

²¹The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, singing with loud instruments to Yahweh.

²¹Tako so sinovi Izraelovi, kar jih je bilo v Jeruzalemu, praznovali slavnost opresnikov sedem dni z velikim veseljem; in leviti in duhovniki so hvalili GOSPODA vsak dan, pojoč z glasbili v hvalo GOSPODU.

²²Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

²²In Ezekija je govoril na srce vsem levitom, ki so se izkazali razumne v spoznanju GOSPODOVEM; in uživali so sedem dni, kar je bilo določeno, in darovali mirovne daritve in proslavljali GOSPODA, Boga očetov svojih.

²³The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept another seven days with gladness.

²³In ves zbor se je posvetoval in sklenil, da bodo praznovali še drugih sedem dni; in praznovali so še sedem dni z veseljem.

²⁴For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

²⁴Kajti Ezekija, kralj Judov, je podaril zboru tisoč juncev in sedem tisoč glav drobnice; knezi pa so podarili zboru tisoč juncev in deset tisoč glav drobnice. In veliko število duhovnikov se je posvetilo.

²⁵All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.

²⁵In veselil se je ves zbor Judov in duhovniki in leviti, in ves zbor, ki je prišel iz Izraela, tudi tujci, ki so prišli iz dežele Izraelove in ki so prebivali na Judovem.

²⁶So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.

²⁶In bilo je veliko veselje v Jeruzalemu, kajti od časa Salomona, sina Davidovega, kralja nad Izraelom, ni bilo nič takega v Jeruzalemu.Potem so duhovniki leviti vstali in blagoslovili ljudstvo, in njih glas je bil uslišan in njih molitev je prišla v sveto prebivališče njegovo, v nebesa.

²⁷Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

²⁷Potem so duhovniki leviti vstali in blagoslovili ljudstvo, in njih glas je bil uslišan in njih molitev je prišla v sveto prebivališče njegovo, v nebesa.