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

¹Nato pošlje kralj in zbere k sebi vse starejšine Judove in jeruzalemske.

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.

²In kralj gre gori v hišo GOSPODOVO in vsi možje Judovi in prebivalci jeruzalemski ž njim, tudi duhovniki in proroki in vse ljudstvo, mali in veliki; in čita, da vsi slišijo, vse besede knjige zaveze, ki se je našla v hiši GOSPODOVI.

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.

³In kralj se ustopi ob stebru in stori zavezo pred GOSPODOM, da bo hodil za GOSPODOM in izpolnjeval zapovedi njegove in pričevanja njegova in postave njegove iz vsega srca in iz vse duše, da ostanejo veljavne te zaveze besede, ki so zapisane v tej knjigi. In vse ljudstvo je stopilo v to zavezo.

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.

⁴In kralj zapove Hilkiju, velikemu duhovniku, in duhovnikom druge vrste in varuhom pri vratih, naj pomečejo iz templja GOSPODOVEGA vse priprave, ki so jih naredili Baalu in Ašeri in vsej vojski nebeški; in sežgal jih je zunaj Jeruzalema na Kidronskih poljanah, in njih prah so odnesli v Betel.

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.

⁵In odpravil je malikovalske svečenike, ki jih je bil kralj Judov postavil, da žgo kadilo na višavah po mestih Judovih in v okolišu Jeruzalema; tudi tiste, ki so žgali kadilo Baalu, solncu in mesecu, ozvezdjem in vsej vojski nebeški.

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.

⁶Velel je tudi odnesti Ašero iz hiše GOSPODOVE ven za Jeruzalem k potoku Kidronu, in jo je sežgal pri potoku Kidronu in zmel v prah, in prah je raztresel po grobovih nizkega ljudstva.

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

⁷In razdrl je nečistosti posvečene hiše, ki so bile pri hiši GOSPODOVI in so v njih ženske tkale Ašeri ogrinjala.

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.

⁸Velel je tudi duhovnikom iti iz mest Judovih in je oskrunil višave, kjer so bili duhovniki žgali kadilo, od Gebe do Bersebe. In podrl je višave pri vratih, ki so bile pri vhodu v vrata Jozueta, mestnega poglavarja, po levi strani, koder se gre v mesto.

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.

⁹Ali duhovniki višav niso smeli pristopiti gori k oltarju GOSPODOVEMU v Jeruzalemu, jedli so samo opresnike med svojimi brati.

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.

¹⁰In oskrunil je Tofet, ki je v dolini Hinomovih sinov, da bi nihče več ne peljal sina svojega ali hčere svoje skozi ogenj, darujoč ju Molohu.

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.

¹¹Odpravil je tudi konje, ki so jih bili kralji Judovi postavili solncu, proti vhodu v hišo GOSPODOVO, poleg hrama dvornika Natanmeleka, ki je bival v Parvarimu, in solnčne vozove je sežgal z ognjem.

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.

¹²Oltarje pa, ki so bili na strehi gornje izbe Ahazove in so jih napravili kralji Judovi, in oltarje, katere je naredil Manasej na obeh dvoriščih hiše GOSPODOVE, je zrušil kralj in pometal odondod, in njih prah je stresel v potok Kidron.

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.

¹³In višave pred Jeruzalemom, ki so bile na desni strani Gore pogube in jih je bil Salomon, kralj Izraelov, zgradil Astoreti, grdobi Sidoncev, in Kamosu, grdobi Moabcev, in Milkomu, gnusobi sinov Amonovih, je oskrunil kralj.

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

¹⁴In strl je stebre s podobami in posekal Ašere, njih mesta pa je napolnil s človeškimi kostmi.

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.

¹⁵Enako je tudi porušil oltar v Betelu in višavo, ki jo je napravil Jeroboam, sin Nebatov, ki je napotil Izraela v greh, tisti oltar in višavo je porušil; in sežgal je višavo in jo strl v prah, sežgal tudi Ašero.

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.

¹⁶In Josija se ozre in zagleda grobe, ki so bili ondi v gori, in pošlje in vzame kosti iz grobov ter jih sežge na oltarju in ga oskruni po besedi GOSPODOVI, katero je zaklical mož Božji, napovedujoč te reči.

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.”

¹⁷Nato vpraša: Kakšno je tu nadgrobno znamenje, ki ga vidim? In mestni možje mu reko: Grob je moža Božjega, ki je prišel z Judovega in zaklical te reči, ki si jih storil, zoper oltar betelski.

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.

¹⁸In veli: Naj leži, nihče ne gani njegovih kosti! Tako so ostale nedotaknjene kosti njegove in kosti proroka, ki je bil prišel iz Samarije.

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.

¹⁹Tudi vse hiše višav, kar jih je bilo po mestih samarijskiln, katere so napravili kralji Izraelovi, da dražijo GOSPODA, je Josija odpravil in ž njimi storil prav tako, kakor je bil storil v Betelu.

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.

²⁰In daroval je vse duhovnike višav, ki so bili ondi, na oltarjih in je žgal človeške kosti na njih. Potem se vrne v Jeruzalem.

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

²¹Tedaj zapove kralj vsemu ljudstvu, rekoč: Praznujte pasho GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu, kakor je pisano v tej knjigi zaveze.

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;

²²Gotovo se ni praznovala taka pasha od dni sodnikov, ki so sodili Izraela, pa tudi ne v dnevih kraljev Judovih in kraljev Izraelovih;

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

²³temuč v osemnajstem letu kralja Josija se je praznovala ta pasha GOSPODU v Jeruzalemu.

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.

²⁴Vrhutega je Josija iztrebil tudi rotilce mrtvih in čarodejnike in hišne bogove, malike in vse grdobe, kar se jih je zalotilo v deželi Judovi in v Jeruzalemu, da uveljavi besede postave, pisane v knjigi, ki jo je našel duhovnik Hilkija v hiši GOSPODOVI.

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.

²⁵In ni ga bilo njemu podobnega kralja pred njim, ki bi se bil preobrnil h GOSPODU iz vsega srca in iz vse duše in iz vse moči svoje, po vsej postavi Mojzesovi, tudi za njim ni vstal nobeden njemu enak.

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.

²⁶Vendar se GOSPOD ni odvrnil od togote velike jeze svoje, v kateri se je vnel srd njegov zoper Judo, zaradi vsega draženja, s katerim ga je bil dražil Manasej.

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.’”

²⁷In GOSPOD je rekel: Odpravim tudi Judo izpred obličja svojega, kakor sem odpravil Izraela, in zavržem mesto to, ki sem si ga izvolil, Jeruzalem, tudi hišo, za katero sem rekel: Ime moje bode ondi.

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?

²⁸Kar je pa več praviti o Josiju in vse, kar je storil, ni li zapisano v knjigi letopisov kraljev Judovih?

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.

²⁹V dnevih njegovih je šel gori Faraon Neko, kralj egiptovski, zoper kralja asirskega na reko Evfrat; njemu je šel Josija nasproti; Neko pa ga je umoril v Megidu, ko ga je bil videl.

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.

³⁰In hlapci njegovi so ga mrtvega odpeljali iz Megida in ga pripeljali v Jeruzalem ter pokopali v grobu njegovem. In ljudstvo dežele je vzelo Joahaza, sina Josijevega, in so ga pomazilili ter postavili za kralja namesto očeta njegovega.

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.

³¹Triindvajset let je bilo Joahazu, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je tri mesece v Jeruzalemu. Materi njegovi je bilo ime Hamutala, hči Jeremijeva, iz Libne.

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

³²In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, po vsem, kar so delali očetje njegovi.

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.

³³In Faraon Neko ga je dejal v spone v Ribli, v hamatski pokrajini, da ne bi več kraljeval v Jeruzalemu; in naložil je deželi globo: sto talentov srebra in talent zlata.

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.

³⁴In Faraon Neko je postavil Eljakima, sina Josijevega, za kralja namesto Josija, očeta njegovega, in premenil mu je ime v Jojakima. Joahaza pa je vzel s seboj; in ta je prišel v Egipt in je tam umrl.

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.

³⁵In Jojakim je dal srebro in zlato Faraonu; toda naložil je doklade deželi, da bi dala tisti denar po Faraonovem povelju: izterjal je srebra in zlata od ljudstva v deželi, od vsakega po cenitvi njegovi, da plača Faraonu Neku.

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.

³⁶Jojakim je bil petindvajset let star, ko je zakraljeval, in vladal je enajst let v Jeruzalemu. In materi njegovi je bilo ime Zebida, hči Pedajeva iz Rume.In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, po vsem, kar so bili delali očetje njegovi.

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

³⁷In delal je, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, po vsem, kar so bili delali očetje njegovi.