¹Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father’s place in Jerusalem.

¹Tedaj vzame ljudstvo dežele Joahaza, sina Josijevega, in ga postavijo za kralja na mestu očeta njegovega v Jeruzalemu.

²Joahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

²Joahaz je bil triindvajset let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je tri mesece v Jeruzalemu.

³The king of Egypt deposed him at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

³A kralj egiptovski ga je odstavil v Jeruzalemu in naložil deželi globo: sto talentov srebra in talent zlata.

⁴The king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and changed his name to Jehoiakim. Neco took Joahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

⁴In kralj egiptovski je postavil Eljakima, brata njegovega, za kralja nad Judo in Jeruzalemom in mu premenil ime v Jojakima. Joahaza pa, brata njegovega, je Neko vzel in odpeljal v Egipt.

⁵Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God.

⁵Jojakim je bil petindvajset let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je enajst let v Jeruzalemu in delal, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODA, Boga njegovega.

⁶Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

⁶Zoper njega je prišel Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski, in ga zvezal z dvema bronastima verigama, da bi ga peljal v Babilon.

⁷Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Yahweh to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

⁷Nebukadnezar je prinesel tudi nekaj posod iz hiše GOSPODOVE v Babilon in jih je del v svoj tempelj v Babilonu.

⁸Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.

⁸Kar je pa več praviti o Jojakimu, in gnusobe njegove, ki jih je počenjal, in kar se je našlo pri njem, glej, zapisano je v knjigi kraljev Izraelovih in Judovih. In Jojahin [Jekonija, Konija.], sin njegov, je zavladal na mestu njegovem.

⁹Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

⁹Jojahin je bil osemnajst let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je tri mesece in deset dni v Jeruzalemu; in delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH.

¹⁰At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

¹⁰Ko je pa to leto minilo, pošlje Nebukadnezar ter ga veli peljati v Babilon z dragocenimi posodami iz hiše GOSPODOVE vred, in postavi Zedekija, brata njegovega, za kralja nad Judo in Jeruzalemom.

¹¹Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:

¹¹Zedekija je bil enoindvajset let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je enajst let v Jeruzalemu;

¹²and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Yahweh.

¹²in delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODA, njegovega Boga, in se ni ponižal pred prorokom Jeremijem, ko mu je govoril iz ust GOSPODOVIH.

¹³He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.

¹³On se je tudi izneveril kralju Nebukadnezarju, ki ga je bil zavezal s prisego pri Bogu. In otrdil je zatilnik svoj in zakrknil svoje srce, da ne bi se preobrnil h GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu.

¹⁴Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

¹⁴Vrhutega so vsi poglavarji duhovnikov in ljudstvo jako množili verolomnost, delajoč po vseh gnusobah poganov, in onečistili so hišo GOSPODOVO, ki jo je bil posvetil v Jeruzalemu.

¹⁵Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

¹⁵In Jehova, Bog njih očetov, jih je opominjal po svojih poslancih, od ranega jutra in neprenehoma, ker se mu je smililo ljudstvo njegovo in prebivališče njegovo.

¹⁶but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.

¹⁶A oni so zasmehovali poslance Božje in zaničevali besede njegove in za norce imeli njegove proroke, dokler ni zrasla jeza GOSPODOVA nad ljudstvom njegovim, da ni bilo več lečitve.

¹⁷Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

¹⁷Zato je pripeljal nadnje kralja Kaldejcev, ki so pomorili njih mlado moštvo z mečem v hiši njih svetinje in niso prizanesli mladeniču, ne devici, ne starcu, ne sivolascu; vse jih je izdal njemu v roko.

¹⁸All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

¹⁸In vse posode hiše Božje, velike in male, in zaklade hiše Božje in zaklade kralja in knezov njegovih, vse te je odpeljal v Babilon.

¹⁹They burnt God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels of it.

¹⁹In sežgali so z ognjem hišo Božjo in porušili zidovje jeruzalemsko in požgali vse palače v njem in uničili vse dragocene posode v njih.

²⁰He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon; and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia:

²⁰In kar jih je preostalo po meču, so odvedli ujete v Babilon, in bili so hlapci njemu in sinovom njegovim, dokler ni zavladalo kraljestvo perzijsko,

²¹to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

²¹da bi se dopolnila beseda GOSPODOVA po ustih Jeremijevih, „dokler se ne bo dežela naužila sobot svojih“. Dokler je ležala pusta, je uživala soboto, da se je izpolnilo sedemdeset let.

²²Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

²²V prvem letu pa Cira, kralja Perzije, da bi se dopolnila beseda GOSPODOVA po ustih Jeremijevih, je GOSPOD obudil duha Cira, kralja Perzije, da je velel proglasiti po vsej kraljevini svoji, pa tudi pismeno naznaniti:Tako pravi Cir, kralj Perzije: Vsa kraljestva zemlje mi je dal GOSPOD, Bog nebes, in mi je naročil zgraditi mu hišo v Jeruzalemu, ki je na Judovem. Kdorkoli torej je med vami iz vsega ljudstva njegovega, s tem bodi GOSPOD, njegov Bog, in pojdi tja gori!

²³“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”

²³Tako pravi Cir, kralj Perzije: Vsa kraljestva zemlje mi je dal GOSPOD, Bog nebes, in mi je naročil zgraditi mu hišo v Jeruzalemu, ki je na Judovem. Kdorkoli torej je med vami iz vsega ljudstva njegovega, s tem bodi GOSPOD, njegov Bog, in pojdi tja gori!