1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.
Kisha, mfalme akatuma wajumbe, nao wakamkusanyia wazee wote wa Yuda na wa Yerusalemu.
2 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.
Mfalme akapanda kwenda nyumbani kwa Bwana, na watu wote wa Yuda, nao wote waliokaa Yerusalemu, pamoja naye, na makuhani, na manabii, na watu wote, wadogo kwa wakubwa; akasoma masikioni mwao maneno yote ya kitabu cha agano kilichoonekana katika nyumba ya Bwana.
3 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.
Mfalme akasimama karibu na nguzo, akafanya agano mbele za Bwana, kumfuata Bwana, na kuyashika maagizo yake, na shuhuda zake, na amri zake, kwa moyo wake wote, na kwa roho yake yote, na kuyathibitisha maneno ya agano hilo yaliyoandikwa katika kitabu hicho; nao watu wote wakalikubali agano lile.
Josiah's Reforms
4 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.
Kisha, mfalme akamwamuru Hilkia, kuhani mkuu, na makuhani wa daraja ya pili, na walinzi wa mlango, kwamba watoe katika hekalu la Bwana vyombo vyote vilivyofanywa kwa ajili ya Baali, na kwa ajili ya Ashera, na kwa ajili ya jeshi lote la mbinguni; akavipiga moto nje ya Yerusalemu, katika mashamba ya Ridroni, akayachukua majivu yake mpaka Betheli.
5 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.
Akawaondosha wale makuhuni walioabudu sanamu, ambao wafalme wa Yuda waliwaweka ili kufukiza uvumba katika mahali pa juu, ndani ya miji ya Yuda, na katika kila mahali, pande zote za Yerusalemu; na hao pia waliomfukizia uvumba Baali, na jua, na mwezi, na sayari, na jeshi lote la mbinguni.
6 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.
Naye akaiondoa Ashera katika nyumba ya Bwana, nje ya Yerusalemu, mpaka Kidroni, akaipiga moto penye kijito cha Kidroni, na kuiponda-ponda iwe mavumbi, akayatupa mavumbi yake juu ya makaburi ya watu.
7 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.
Akaziangusha nyumba za mahanithi, waliokuwamo nyumbani mwa Bwana, wanawake walipofuma mapazia ya Ashera.
8 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.
Akawatoa makuhani wote katika miji ya Yuda, akapanajisi mahali pa juu, makuhani walipokuwa wamefukiza uvumba, tangu Geba hata Beer-sheba; akapavunja mahali pa juu pa malango, palipokuwapo penye kuingia lango la Yoshua, liwali wa mji, palipokuwa upande wa kushoto wa mtu langoni pa mji.
9 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.
Walakini hao makuhani wa mahali pa juu hawakupanda madhabahuni kwa Bwana katika Yerusalemu, bali wakala mikate isiyo na chachu katikati ya ndugu zao.
10 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.
Naye akainajisi Tofethi, iliyomo katika bonde la wana wa Hinomu, ili mtu asipitishe mwana wake au binti yake motoni kwa Moleki.
11 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.
Akawaondoa farasi ambao wafalme wa Yuda waliwatoa kwa jua, hapo pa kuingia nyumbani mwa Bwana, karibu na chumba cha Nathan-Meleki, towashi, kilichohuwako kiungani; akayapiga moto magari ya jua.
12 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.
Nazo madhabahu zilizokuwako darini juu ya chumba cha juu cha Ahazi, wafalme wa Yuda walizozifanya, nazo madhabahu alizozifanya Manase katika behewa mbili za nyumba ya Bwana, mfalme akazivunja, akazitelemsha huko nje, na kuyatupa mavumbi yake katika kijito cha Kidroni.
13 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.
Na mahali pa juu palipokuwapo mbele ya Yerusalemu, palipokuwa upande wa kuume wa mlima wa uharibifu, alipopajenga Sulemani, mfalme wa Israeli, kwa Ashtorethi, chukizo la Wasidoni, na Kemoshi, chukizo la Moabu, na Milkomu, chukizo la wana wa Amoni, mfalme akapanajisi.
14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
Akazivunja-vunja nguzo, akayakata-kata maashera, akapajaza mahali pake mifupa ya watu.
15 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.
Tena zaidi ya hayo, ile madhabahu iliyokuwako Betheli, na mahali pa juu alipopafanya Yeroboamu, mwana wa Nebati, aliyewakosesha Israeli, madhabahu hiyo aliibomoa; na mahali pa juu alipateketeza, akapaponda-ponda hata pakawa mavumbi, akaiteketeza ile Ashera.
16 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.
Naye Yosia alipogeuka, aliyaona makaburi yale yaliyokuwako huko, juu ya mlima; akatuma watu, akaitoa ile mifupa katika yale makaburi, akaiteketeza juu ya madhabahu, akainajisi, sawasawa na lile neno la Bwana, alilolinena yule mtu wa Mungu, aliyetamka mambo hayo.
17 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.
Kisha akasema, Ni kumbukumbu la nani, hili ninaloliona? Na watu wa mji wakamwambia, Ni kaburi la yule mtu wa Mungu, aliyetoka Yuda, akayanena mambo hayo uliyoyatenda wewe juu ya madhabahu ya Betheli.
18 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.
Akasema, Mwacheni; mtu awaye yote asiiondoe mifupa yake. Basi wakaiacha mifupa yake, pamoja na mifupa ya yule nabii aliyetoka Samaria.
19 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.
Na nyumba zote pia za mahali pa juu palipokuwa katika miji ya Samaria, wafalme wa Israeli walizozifanya, ili kumkasirisha Bwana, Yosia aliziondoa, akazitenda kwa mfano wa mambo yote aliyoyatenda katika Betheli.
20 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.
Akawaua na makuhani wote wa mahali pa juu waliokuwako huko, juu ya madhabahu, akateketeza mifupa ya watu juu yake; kisha akarejea Yerusalemu.
21 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.
Naye mfalme akawaamuru watu wote, akasema, Mfanyieni Bwana, Mungu wenu, pasaka, kama ilivyoandikwa katika kitabu hiki cha agano.
22 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;
Hakika yake haikufanyika pasaka kama hiyo, tangu zamani za waamuzi waliowaamua Israeli, wala katika zamani za wafalme wa Israeli, wala za wafalme wa Yuda.
23 but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
Bali katika mwaka wa kumi na nane wa mfalme Yosia ilifanyika pasaka hii kwa Bwana ndani ya Yerusalemu.
24 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.
Tena wenye pepo wa utambuzi, na wachawi, na vinyago, na sanamu, na machukizo yote yaliyoonekana katika nchi ya Yuda na katika Yerusalemu, Yosia akayaondoa yote, ili apate kuyathibitisha maneno ya torati yaliyoandikwa katika kile kitabu alichokiona Hilkia kuhani ndani ya nyumba ya Bwana.
25 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.
Kabla ya huyo hapakuwa na mfalme mfano wake, aliyemwelekea Bwana kwa moyo wake wote, na kwa roho yake yote, na kwa nguvu zake zote, sawasawa na sheria zote za Musa; wala baada yake hakuinuka mmoja mfano wake yeye.
26 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.
Walakini Bwana hakuuacha ukali wa ghadhabu yake nyingi, ambayo kwayo hasira yake iliwaka juu ya Yuda, kwa sababu ya machukizo yote ambayo Manase amemchukiza.
27 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.
Bwana akasema Nitawahamisha Yuda pia mbali nami, kama nilivyowahamisha Israeli, nami nitautupa mji huu niliouchagua, naam, Yerusalemu, na nyumba ile niliyoinena, Jina langu litakuwa humo.
28 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?
Basi mambo yote ya Yosia yaliyosalia, na yote aliyoyafanya, je! Hayakuandikwa katika kitabu-cha-tarehe cha wafalme wa Yuda?
29 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.
Katika siku zake, Farao-neko, mfalme wa Misri, akakwea ili kupigana na mfalme wa Ashuru, akafika mto Frati; naye mfalme Yosia akaenda kupigana naye; naye mfalme wa Misri akamwua huko Megido, hapo alipoonana naye.
30 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.
Watumishi wake wakamchukua garini, amekwisha kufa, kutoka Megido, wakamleta Yerusalemu, wakamzika katika kaburi lake mwenyewe. Watu wa nchi wakamtwaa Yehoahazi mwana wa Yosia, wakamtia mafuta, wakamtawaza awe mfalme badala ya baba yake.
Jehoahaz
31 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.
Yehoahazi alikuwa na umri wa miaka ishirini na mitatu alipoanza kutawala; akatawala miezi mitatu katika Yerusalemu; na jina la mamaye aliitwa Hamutali binti Yeremia wa Libna.
32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
Akafanya yaliyo mabaya machoni pa Bwana, sawasawa na yote waliyoyafanya baba zake.
33 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.
Naye Farao-neko akamfunga huko Ribla, katika nchi ya Hamathi, ili asitawale huko Yerusalemu. Akaitoza nchi kodi talanta mia za fedha na talanta ya dhahabu.
34 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.
Farao-neko akamfanya Eliakimu mwana wa Yosia awe mfalme mahali pa Yosia babaye, akambadilisha jina lake kuwa Yehoyakimu, lakini akamwondoa Yehoahazi; akaenda naye Misri, naye akafa huko.
35 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.
Na Yehoyakimu akampa Farao dhahabu na fedha; lakini akaitoza nchi kodi, ili apate kutoa zile fedha kwa amri yake Farao; akawatoza fedha na dhahabu watu wa nchi, kila mtu kwa kodi yake, ili ampe Farao-neko.
36 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.
Yehoyakimu alikuwa na umri wa miaka ishirini na mitano alipoanza kutawala; akatawala miaka kumi na mmoja huko Yerusalemu; na jina la mamaye aliitwa Zebida binti Pedaya wa Ruma.
37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
Akafanya yaliyo mabaya machoni pa Bwana, sawasawa na yote waliyoyafanya baba zake.
