역대하 31

1이 모든 일이 마치매 거기 있는 이스라엘 무리가 나가서 유다 여러 성읍에 이르러 주상을 깨뜨리며 아세라 목상을 찍으며 유다와 베냐민과 에브라임과 므낫세 온 땅에서 산당과 단을 제하여 멸하고 이스라엘 모든 자손이 각각 그 본성 기업으로 돌아갔더라 2히스기야가 제사장들과 레위 사람들의 반차를 정하고 각각 그 직임을 행하게 하되 곧 제사장들과 레위 사람들로 번제와 화목제를 드리며 여호와의 영문에서 섬기며 감사하며 찬송하게 하고 3또 자기 재산 중에서 얼마를 정하여 여호와의 율법에 기록된 대로 번제 곧 조석 번제와 안식일과 초하루와 절기의 번제에 쓰게 하고 4또 예루살렘에 거한 백성을 명하여 제사장들과 레위 사람들의 응식을 주어 저희로 여호와의 율법을 힘쓰게 하라 한지라 5왕의 명령이 내리자 곧 이스라엘 자손이 곡식과 포도주와 기름과 꿀과 밭의 모든 소산의 처음 것을 풍성히 드렸고 또 모든 것의 십일조를 많이 가져왔으며 6유다 여러 성읍에 거한 이스라엘과 유다 자손도 소와 양의 십일조를 가져왔고 또 그 하나님 여호와께 구별하여 드릴 성물의 십일조를 가져왔으며 그것을 쌓아 더미를 이루었는데 7삼월에 쌓기를 시작하여 칠월에 마친지라 8히스기야와 방백들이 와서 더미를 보고 여호와를 송축하고 그 백성 이스라엘을 위하여 축복하니라 9히스기야가 그 더미에 대하여 제사장들과 레위 사람들에게 물으니 10사독의 족속 대제사장 아사랴가 대답하여 가로되 백성이 예물을 여호와의 전에 드리기 시작함으로부터 우리가 족하게 먹었으나 남은 것이 많으니 이는 여호와께서 그 백성에게 복을 주셨음이라 그 남은 것이 이렇게 많이 쌓였나이다 11그 때에 히스기야가 명하여 여호와의 전 안에 방을 예비하라 한고로 드디어 예비하고 12성심으로 그 예물과 십일조와 구별한 물건을 갖다 두고 레위 사람 고나냐는 그 일을 주관하고 그 아우 시므이는 버금이 되며 13여히엘과 아사시야와 나핫과 아사헬과 여리못과 요사밧과 엘리엘과 이스마가와 마핫과 브나야는 고나냐와 그 아우 시므이의 수하에서 보살피는 자가 되니 이는 히스기야 왕과 하나님의 전을 관리하는 아사랴의 명한 바며 14동문지기 레위 사람 임나의 아들 고레는 즐거이 하나님께 드리는 예물을 맡아 여호와께 드리는 것과 모든 지성물을 나눠 주며 15그 수하의 에덴과 미냐민과 예수아와 스마야와 아마랴와 스가냐는 제사장의 성읍들에 있어서 직임을 맡아 그 형제에게 반차대로 무론대소하고 나눠 주되 16삼 세 이상으로 족보에 기록된 남자 외에 날마다 여호와의 전에 들어가서 그 반차대로 직임에 수종드는 자들에게 다 나눠 주며 17또 그 족속대로 족보에 기록된 제사장들에게 나눠 주며 이십 세 이상부터 그 반차대로 직임을 맡은 레위 사람들에게 나눠 주며 18또 그 족보에 기록된 온 회중의 어린 아이와 아내와 자녀들에게 나눠 주었으니 이 회중은 성결하고 충실히 그 직분을 다하는 자며 19각 성읍에서 녹명된 사람이 있어 성읍 가까운 들에 거한 아론 자손 제사장들에게도 나눠 주되 제사장들의 모든 남자와 족보에 기록된 레위 사람들에게 나눠 주었더라 20히스기야가 온 유다에 이같이 행하되 그 하나님 여호와 보시기에 선과 정의와 진실함으로 행하였으니 21무릇 그 행하는 모든 일 곧 하나님의 전에 수종드는 일에나 율법에나 계명에나 그 하나님을 구하고 일심으로 행하여 형통하였더라

1Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherah poles, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities. 2Hezekiah appointed the divisions of the priests and the Levites after their divisions, every man according to his service, both the priests and the Levites, for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the camp of Yahweh. 3He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in Yahweh’s law. 4Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to Yahweh’s law. 5As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly. 6The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of cattle and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps. 7In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month. 8When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh, and his people Israel. 9Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps. 10Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, “Since people began to bring the offerings into Yahweh’s house, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Yahweh has blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.” 11Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in Yahweh’s house; and they prepared them. 12They brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: and over them Conaniah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was second. 13Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of God’s house. 14Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter at the east gate, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the offerings of Yahweh, and the most holy things. 15Under him were Eden, and Miniamin, and Jeshua, and Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests, in their office of trust, to give to their brothers by divisions, as well to the great as to the small: 16besides those who were reckoned by genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even everyone who entered into Yahweh’s house, as the duty of every day required, for their service in their offices according to their divisions; 17and those who were reckoned by genealogy of the priests by their fathers’ houses, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their offices by their divisions; 18and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness. 19Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, who were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men who were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all who were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites. 20Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he worked that which was good and right and faithful before Yahweh his God. 21In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

1Als zij nu voleind hadden, togen alle Israelieten, die er gevonden werden, uit, tot de steden van Juda, en braken de opgerichte beelden, en hieuwen de bossen af, en wierpen de hoogten en de altaren af, uit gans Juda en Benjamin, ook in Efraim en Manasse, totdat zij alles te niet gemaakt hadden; daarna keerden al de kinderen Israels weder, een ieder tot zijn bezitting in hun steden. 2En Hizkia bestelde de verdelingen der priesteren en der Levieten, naar hun verdelingen, een ieder naar zijn dienst, de priesteren en de Levieten tot het brandoffer en tot de dankofferen, om te dienen, en om te loven, en om te prijzen in de poort van de legers des HEEREN; 3Ook het deel des konings van zijn have tot de brandofferen, tot de brandofferen des morgens en des avonds, en de brandofferen der sabbatten, en der nieuwe maanden, en der gezette hoogtijden; gelijk geschreven is in de wet des HEEREN. 4En hij zeide tot het volk, tot de inwoners van Jeruzalem, dat zij het deel der priesteren en Levieten geven zouden, opdat zij versterkt mochten worden in de wet des HEEREN. 5Toen nu dat woord uitbrak, brachten de kinderen Israels vele eerstelingen van koren, most, en olie, en honig, en van al de inkomsten des velds; ook brachten zij de tienden van alles in met menigte. 6En de kinderen van Israel en Juda, die in de steden van Juda woonden, brachten ook tienden der runderen en der schapen, en tienden der heilige dingen, die den HEERE, hun God, geheiligd waren, en maakten vele hopen. 7In de derde maand begonnen zij den grond van die hopen te leggen, en in de zevende maand voleindden zij. 8Toen nu Jehizkia en de vorsten kwamen en die hopen zagen, zegenden zij den HEERE en Zijn volk Israel. 9En Jehizkia ondervraagde de priesteren en de Levieten aangaande die hopen. 10En Azaria, de hoofdpriester, van het huis van Zadok, sprak tot hem en zeide: Van dat men deze heffing begonnen heeft tot het huis des HEEREN te brengen, is er te eten geweest en verzadigd te worden, ja, over te houden tot overvloed toe; want de HEERE heeft Zijn volk gezegend, zodat deze veelheid overgebleven is. 11Toen zeide Jehizkia, dat men kameren aan het huis des HEEREN bereiden zou; en zij bereidden ze. 12Daarin brachten zij die heffing, en de tienden, en de geheiligde dingen, in getrouwigheid; en daarover was Chonanja, de Leviet, overste, en Simei, zijn broeder, de tweede. 13Maar Jehiel, en Azazja, en Nahath, en Asahel, en Jerimoth, en Jozabad, en Eliel, en Jismachja, en Mahath, en Benaja, waren opzieners, onder de hand van Chonanja en Simei, zijn broeder; door het bevel van den koning Jehizkia en van Azaria, den overste van het huis Gods. 14En Kore, de zoon van Jimna, de Leviet, de poortier tegen het oosten, was over de vrijwillige gaven Gods, om het hefoffer des HEEREN en het allerheiligste uit te delen. 15En aan zijn hand waren Eden, en Minjamin, en Jesua, en Semaja, Amarja en Sechanja, in de steden der priesteren, met getrouwigheid, om aan hun broederen in de verdelingen, zowel aan de kleinen als de groten, uit te delen: 16(Benevens die gesteld waren in het geslachtsregister der manspersonen, drie jaren oud en daarboven) allen, die in het huis des HEEREN gingen, tot het dagelijkse werk op elken dag, voor hun dienst, in hun wachten, naar hun verdelingen. 17En met die gesteld waren in het geslachtsregister der priesteren naar het huis hunner vaderen, ook de Levieten van twintig jaren oud en daarboven, in hun wachten, naar hun verdelingen; 18Ook tot de geslachtsrekening met al hun kinderkens, hun vrouwen, en hun zonen, en hun dochteren, door de ganse gemeente; want zij hadden zich in hun ambt in heiligheid geheiligd. 19Ook waren onder de kinderen van Aaron, de priesteren, op de velden der voorsteden hunner steden, in elke stad, mannen, die met namen uitgedrukt waren, om aan alle manspersonen onder de priesteren en aan allen, die in het geslachtsregister onder de Levieten gesteld waren, delen te geven. 20En alzo deed Jehizkia in geheel Juda; en hij deed dat goed, en recht, en waarachtig was, voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, zijns Gods. 21En in alle werk, dat hij begon in den dienst van het huis Gods, en in de wet en in het gebod, om zijn God te zoeken, deed hij met zijn ganse hart, en had voorspoed.