1 Da sendte kongen bud og samlet alle de ansvarlige mennene fra Juda og Jerusalem.

Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

2 Kongen gikk opp til Herrens hus, sammen med alle mennene fra Juda og hele folket i Jerusalem, prestene og profetene, og hele folket, små og store, og de lyttet mens han leste fra lovboken som var funnet i Herrens hus.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

3 Kongen tok plass ved søylen og inngikk en pakt for Herrens ansikt, om å følge Herrens veier og holde hans bud, påbud og lover av hele sitt hjerte og hele sin sjel, og å holde ordene i pakten som er skrevet i denne boken; og hele folket lovte å holde denne pakten.

And the king took his place by the pillar, and made an agreement before the Lord, to go in the way of the Lord, and keep his orders and his decisions and his rules with all his heart and all his soul, and to keep the words of the agreement recorded in the book; and all the people gave their word to keep the agreement.

4 Deretter ga kongen ordre til Hilkia, øverstepresten, prestene av den andre rang og dørvokterne, om å fjerne alle de tingene som var laget for Baal, Asjera og alle stjernehimmelen fra Herrens hus; han brente dem utenfor Jerusalem i Kedron-dalens marker og spredte støvet etter dem i Betel.

Then the king gave orders to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and to the priests of the second order, and to the keepers of the door, to take out of the house of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal and for the Asherah and for all the stars of heaven; and he had them burned outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and took the dust of them to Beth-el.

5 Han satte en stopp for de falske prestene som hadde blitt innsatt av Judas konger for å ofre på offerhaugene i byene i Juda og rundt Jerusalem, samt for dem som ofret til Baal, solen, månen, stjernebilder og alle himmelens stjerner.

And he put an end to the false priests, who had been put in their positions by the kings of Judah to see to the burning of offerings in the high places in the towns of Judah and the outskirts of Jerusalem, and all those who made offerings to Baal and to the sun and the moon and the twelve signs and all the stars of heaven.

6 Og Asjera-statuen tok han ut av Herrens hus og brente den nede ved Kedron-bekken, knuste den til støv og spredte støvet der folket hadde sine gravsteder.

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.

7 Han rev ned husene der man drev med rituell prostitution i Herrens hus, hvor kvinnene vevde klær for Asjera.

And he had the houses pulled down of those who were used for sex purposes in the house of the Lord, where women were making robes for the Asherah.

8 Han førte alle prestene til Jerusalem fra Judas byer, og vanhelliget stedene hvor prestene hadde ofret fra Geba til Beer-Seba; han rev ned offerhaugene ved inngangen til Josva, styrets leder, på venstre side av byporten.

And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.

9 Prester fra offerhaugene fikk aldri komme opp til Herrens alter i Jerusalem, men de spiste usyret brød blant sine brødre.

Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.

10 Han vanhelliget Tofet i Hinnoms barns dal, for at ingen skulle ofre sin sønn eller datter gjennom ild til Molok.

And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

11 Og han fjernet hestene som Judas konger hadde viet til solen, ved inngangen til Herrens hus, ved rommet til Nathan-Melek, hoffmannen, som var i den ytre delen av bygningen, og sol-vognene brente han opp.

And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.

12 Og altarna på taket av Ahaz' øvre rom, som Judas konger hadde laget, og altarna som Manasse hadde laget i de to forgårdene av Herrens hus, ble revet ned og knust til støv, og støvet kastet i Kedron-bekken.

And the altars on the roof of the high room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord, were pulled down and crushed to bits, and the dust of them was put into the stream Kidron.

13 De høye stedene foran Jerusalem, på sørsiden av ødeleggelsesfjellet, som Salomo, Israels konge, hadde laget for Astarte, de avskyelige guden til sidonierne, for Kamos, den avskyelige guden til Moab, og for Milkom, den avskyelige guden til ammonittenes barn, ble vanhelliget.

And the high places before Jerusalem, on the south side of the mountain of destruction, which Solomon, king of Israel, had made for Ashtoreth, the disgusting god of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, and for Milcom, the disgusting god of the children of Ammon, the king made unclean.

14 Steinstøttene ble knust til biter og Asjera-stengene kuttet ned, og stedene der de hadde vært, ble fylt med menneskebein.

The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.

15 Og alteret i Betel, og offerhaugen som Jeroboam, Nebats sønn, som fikk Israel til å synde, hadde reist, ble revet ned; han brente haugen og knuste den til støv, og Asjera-statuen ble også brent.

And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.

16 Josjia så omkring og oppdaget gravstedene på fjellet og sendte og hentet bein fra gravene og brente dem på alteret, slik at han vanhelliget det, i tråd med Herrens ord som mannen fra Gud hadde sagt da Jeroboam sto ved alteret på høytidsdagen, og søkte hvilestedet til Guds mann som hadde forutsagt dette.

Then Josiah, turning round, saw on the mountain the places of the dead, and he sent and had the bones taken out of their places and burned on the altar, so making it unclean, as the Lord had said by the man of God when Jeroboam was in his place by the altar on that feast-day. And he, turning his eyes to the resting-place of the man of God who had given word of these things, said:

17 Hva er det gravminnet jeg ser der borte? Og byens menn svarte ham: Det er gravminnet til Guds mann fra Juda som forutsa alt dette som du har gjort med Betel-alteret.

What is that headstone I see over there? And the men of the town said to him, It is the resting-place of the man of God who came from Judah and gave word of all these things which you have done to the altar of Beth-el.

18 Da sa han: La det stå; ingen må flytte hans ben. Så lot de hans ben være sammen med profeten fra Samarias ben.

So he said, Let him be; let not his bones be moved. So they let his bones be with the bones of the prophet who came from Samaria.

19 Josjia fjernet alle husene til offerhaugene i Samarias byer, som Israels konger hadde reist, og som gjorde Herren rasende. Han gjorde med dem som han hadde gjort i Betel.

Then Josiah took away all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had put up, moving the Lord to wrath, and he did with them as he had done in Beth-el.

20 Og alle prestene ved offerhaugene der ble drept på alterne, og bein ble brent på dem; deretter vendte han tilbake til Jerusalem.

And all the priests of the high places there he put to death on the altars, burning the bones of the dead on them; and then he went back to Jerusalem.

21 Kongen ga ordre til hele folket: Feir påsken for Herren deres Gud, slik som det står skrevet i denne lovboken.

And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.

22 I sannhet hadde en slik påske aldri blitt feiret i alle dagene til Israels dommere og kongene i Israel eller Juda.

Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

23 I det attende året av kong Josjias styre ble denne påsken feiret for Herren i Jerusalem.

In the eighteenth year of the rule of King Josiah this Passover was kept to the Lord in Jerusalem.

24 Josjia fjernet alle dem som kontrollerte ånder, trollmennene, avgudene, og alle de avskyelige tingene som ble sett i Juda og Jerusalem, for å oppfylle ordene i pakten som Hilkia, presten, hadde funnet i Herrens hus.

And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.

25 Aldri før hadde det vært en konge som ham, som vendte seg til Herren med hele sitt hjerte, hele sin sjel og hele sin styrke, i samsvar med Moseloven; og etter ham var det ingen konge som var lik ham.

Never before had there been a king like him, turning to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his power, as the law of Moses says; and after him there was no king like him.

26 Men fortsatt hadde ikke Herrens vrede vendt seg bort fra Juda, på grunn av alt det Manasse hadde gjort for å vekke Herrens vrede.

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.

27 Og Herren sa: Jeg vil kaste Juda bort fra meg, slik jeg kastet Israel; jeg vil ikke ha mer å gjøre med denne byen som jeg gjorde hellig, Jerusalem, eller det hellige huset som jeg sa at mitt navn skulle være i.

And the Lord said, I will send Judah away from before my face, as I have sent Israel; I will have nothing more to do with this town, which I had made mine, even Jerusalem, and the holy house of which I said, My name will be there.

28 Resten av Josjias gjerninger, og alt han gjorde, er de ikke skrevet i boken om Judas kongers historie?

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

29 I hans dager dro farao Neko, kongen av Egypt, mot kongen av Assyria til Eufrat; og kong Josjia dro ut mot ham, men ble drept i Megiddo da han møtte ham.

In his days, Pharaoh-necoh, king of Egypt, sent his armies against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and King Josiah went out against him; and he put him to death at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

30 Hans tjenere fraktet hans legeme i en vogn fra Megiddo til Jerusalem, og gravla ham der. Folket i landet tok Josjias sønn Joahas, salvet ham, og gjorde ham til konge etter hans far.

And his servants took his body in a carriage from Megiddo to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth there. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz, the son of Josiah, and put the holy oil on him and made him king in place of his father.

31 Joahas var 23 år gammel da han ble konge, og han regjerte i Jerusalem i tre måneder; hans mor hette Hamutal, datter av Jeremia fra Libna.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

32 Han gjorde det onde i Herrens øyne, som hans fedre hadde gjort.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his fathers had done.

33 Og farao Neko la ham i lenker i Ribla, i Hamats land, så han ikke lenger kunne være konge i Jerusalem; og han krevde et skatt av landet på hundre talenter sølv og en talent gull.

And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

34 Deretter gjorde farao Neko Josjias sønn Eljakim til konge i stedet for hans far Josjia, og forandret hans navn til Jojakim; men Joahas tok han med seg til Egypt, hvor han ble til sin død.

Then Pharaoh-necoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king in place of Josiah his father, changing his name to Jehoiakim; but Jehoahaz he took away to Egypt, where he was till his death.

35 Jojakim betalte sølvet og gullet til farao ved å skattlegge landet etter hans befaling; folket i landet måtte gi sølv og gull, hver i forhold til sin skatt, for å betale farao Neko.

And Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, taxing the land by his orders to get the money; the people of the land had to give silver and gold, everyone as he was taxed, to make the payment to Pharaoh-necoh.

36 Jojakim var 25 år gammel da han ble konge; han regjerte i Jerusalem i elleve år; hans mor hette Sebida, datter av Pedaja fra Roma.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Zebidah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

37 Han gjorde det onde i Herrens øyne, som hans fedre hadde gjort.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.