2 Raja-raja 16

¹Dalam tahun ketujuh belas zaman Pekah bin Remalya, Ahas anak Yotam raja Yehuda menjadi raja.

¹In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign.

²Ahas berumur dua puluh tahun pada waktu ia menjadi raja dan enam belas tahun lamanya ia memerintah di Yerusalem. Ia tidak melakukan apa yang benar di mata TUHAN, Allahnya, seperti Daud, bapa leluhurnya,

²Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD his God, as his father David had done,

³tetapi ia hidup menurut kelakuan raja-raja Israel, bahkan dia mempersembahkan anaknya sebagai korban dalam api, sesuai dengan perbuatan keji bangsa-bangsa yang telah dihalau TUHAN dari depan orang Israel.

³but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel.

⁴Ia mempersembahkan dan membakar korban di bukit-bukit pengorbanan dan di atas tempat-tempat yang tinggi dan di bawah setiap pohon yang rimbun.

⁴And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

⁵Pada waktu itu majulah Rezin, raja Aram, dan Pekah bin Remalya, raja Israel, untuk memerangi Yerusalem. Dan mereka mengepung Ahas, tetapi mereka tidak dapat mengalahkan dia.

⁵Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.

⁶Pada masa itu Rezin, raja Aram, mengembalikan Elat kepada Edom, lalu ia mengusir orang-orang Yehuda dari Elat. Datanglah orang-orang Edom ke Elat dan diam di sana sampai hari ini.

⁶At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered Elath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from Elath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day.

⁷Ahas menyuruh utusan-utusan kepada Tiglat-Pileser, raja Asyur, mengatakan: "Aku ini hambamu dan anakmu. Majulah dan selamatkanlah aku dari tangan raja Aram dan dari tangan raja Israel, yang telah bangkit menyerang aku."

⁷So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, "I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me."

⁸Ahas mengambil perak dan emas yang terdapat dalam rumah TUHAN dan dalam perbendaharaan istana raja, dan mengirimnya kepada raja Asyur sebagai persembahan.

⁸Ahaz also took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the king's house and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

⁹Maka raja Asyur mendengarkan permintaannya dan maju melawan Damsyik, merebutnya dan mengangkut penduduknya tertawan ke Kir, tetapi Rezin dibunuhnya.

⁹And the king of Assyria listened to him. The king of Assyria marched up against Damascus and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.

¹⁰Sesudah itu pergilah raja Ahas menemui Tiglat-Pileser, raja Asyur, ke Damsyik. Setelah raja Ahas melihat mezbah yang ada di Damsyik, dikirimnyalah kepada imam Uria ukuran dan bagan mezbah itu, menurut buatannya yang tepat.

¹⁰When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.

¹¹Lalu imam Uria mendirikan mezbah; tepat seperti keterangan yang dikirimkan raja Ahas dari Damsyik, demikianlah dibuat imam Uria menjelang datangnya raja Ahas dari Damsyik.

¹¹And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus.

¹²Setelah raja pulang dari Damsyik, maka raja melihat mezbah itu. Lalu mendekatlah raja kepada mezbah itu, naik ke atasnya,

¹²And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it

¹³membakar korban bakarannya dan korban sajiannya, mencurahkan korban curahannya di atas mezbah itu, dan menyiramkan darah korban keselamatannya kepadanya.

¹³and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.

¹⁴Tetapi ia menyuruh menggeser mezbah tembaga yang ada di hadapan TUHAN dari depan rumah TUHAN, dari antara mezbah baru dengan rumah itu, dan menaruhnya di sebelah utara mezbah baru itu.

¹⁴And the bronze altar that was before the LORD he removed from the front of the house, from the place between his altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of his altar.

¹⁵Kemudian raja Ahas memerintahkan kepada imam Uria: "Bakarlah di atas mezbah besar itu korban bakaran pagi dan korban sajian petang, juga korban bakaran dan korban sajian raja, lagi korban bakaran dan korban sajian dan korban-korban curahan seluruh rakyat negeri; dan siramkanlah kepadanya segenap darah korban bakaran dan segenap darah korban sembelihan; tetapi mezbah tembaga itu adalah urusanku."

¹⁵And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."

¹⁶Lalu imam Uria melakukan tepat seperti yang diperintahkan raja Ahas.

¹⁶Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.

¹⁷Sesudah itu raja Ahas memotong papan penutup kereta penopang dan menyingkirkan bejana pembasuhan dari atasnya, juga "laut" itu diturunkannya dari atas lembu tembaga yang mendukungnya dan ditaruhnya di atas alas batu.

¹⁷And King Ahaz cut off the frames of the stands and removed the basin from them, and he took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone pedestal.

¹⁸Selanjutnya, demi raja Asyur, disingkirkannya dari rumah TUHAN serambi tertutup untuk hari Sabat yang telah didirikan pada rumah TUHAN, juga pintu masuk untuk raja yang di sebelah luar.

¹⁸And the covered way for the Sabbath that had been built inside the house and the outer entrance for the king he caused to go around the house of the LORD, because of the king of Assyria.

¹⁹Selebihnya dari riwayat Ahas dan apa yang dilakukannya, bukankah semuanya itu tertulis dalam kitab sejarah raja-raja Yehuda?

¹⁹Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

²⁰Kemudian Ahas mendapat perhentian bersama-sama dengan nenek moyangnya, dan ia dikuburkan di samping nenek moyangnya di kota Daud. Maka Hizkia, anaknya, menjadi raja menggantikan dia.

²⁰And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.