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Yoʻshiyo butparastlikni yoʻq qiladi
1 Shoh Yoʻshiyo xabar berib, Yahudo va Quddusning hamma oqsoqollarini huzuriga toʻpladi. 2 Jamiki Yahudo xalqi va Quddus aholisi, ruhoniylar, paygʻambarlar, zodagonlaru avom xalq shoh boshchiligida Egamizning uyiga bordi. Shoh Egamizning uyidan topilgan Tavrot kitobini boshidan oxirigacha ularning oldida oʻqidi.
3 Shoh Egamizning uyi eshigi oldidagi ustun yonida turib: “Egamiz koʻrsatgan yoʻldan yuraman, amrlariga itoat etaman, shartlariga, farmonlariga butun qalbim bilan, jonu dilim bilan quloq solaman, bu kitobda yozilgan ahd soʻzlarini ado etaman”, deb Egamiz bilan qayta ahd qildi.
Butun xalq bu ahdga qoʻshildi.
4 Shoh Yoʻshiyo: “Baalga, Asheraga va barcha samoviy jismlarga atab qilingan narsalar Egamizning uyidan olib chiqib tashlansin”, deb oliy ruhoniy Xilqiyoga, undan keyingi ruhoniylarga, Egamizning uyi darvozabonlariga farmon berdi. Oʻsha buyumlarni Quddus tashqarisidagi Qidron soyligiga chiqarib yoqtirdi, kulini Baytilga olib keltirdi.
5 Yahudo shohlari yurtning barcha shaharlaridagi va Quddus atrofidagi sajdagohlarda butparast ruhoniylarni tayinlagan edilar. Oʻsha ruhoniylar sajdagohlarda qurbonliklar keltirardi. Yoʻshiyo Baalga, quyoshga, oyga, sayyoralarga va jamiki samoviy jismlarga qurbonlik qilgan oʻsha ruhoniylarni yoʻq qildi. 6 U Egamizning uyidan Asheraning ustunini Quddus tashqarisiga — Qidron soyligiga chiqarib yoqdi. Maydalab kul qilib, kulni avom xalqning qabrlari ustiga sepdi. 7 Fohishlarning Egamiz uyidagi hujralarini buzdi. U yerda ayollar Asheraga atab toʻquv ishlarini bajarishardi.
8 Yoʻshiyo Yahudo shaharlaridan hamma ruhoniylarni chiqarib yubordi. Gebodan Bershebagacha ruhoniylar qurbonliklar keltiradigan sajdagohlarni bulgʻab, harom qildi. U Quddus hokimi Yoshua darvozasining kirishidagi sajdagohlarni yoʻqotdi. Bu darvoza shaharga kirishda chap tomonda edi. 9 Sajdagohlarning ruhoniylari Egamizning Quddusdagi qurbongohiga qurbonlik qilishmas, lekin ruhoniy birodarlarning ulushidan xamirturushsiz non tanovul qila olardilar.
10 Yoʻshiyo, birortasi oʻgʻlini yoki qizini Moʻlaxga qurbonlik qilmasin, olovda kuydirmasin deb, Xinnum soyligidagi Tofatda joylashgan sajdagohni bulgʻab, harom qildi. 11 Yahudo shohlari quyoshga atagan otlarning haykalini Egamizning uyi eshigi oldidan yoʻqotdi. Otlar Egamiz uyining hovlisida — aʼyon Natanmalekning xonasi yonida edi. Yoʻshiyo quyoshga atalgan jang aravalarini ham olovda yoqdi.
12 Oxozning boloxonasi tomidagi Yahudo shohlari qildirgan qurbongohlarni ham, Egamiz uyining ikkala hovlisida Manashe qildirgan qurbongohlarni ham buzdi va maydalab tuyib, Qidron soyligiga sochib yubordi. 13 Quddusning sharqida — Makruh togʻining janubida Isroil shohi Sulaymon Sidonning makruh xudosi Ashtaret uchun, Moʻabning makruh xudosi Xamoʻsh uchun va Ommonning makruh xudosi Moʻlax uchun qurdirgan sajdagohlarni bulgʻab, harom qildi. 14 U butsimon toshlarni sindirib, Asheraga atalgan ustunlarni qoʻporib tashladi, ularning oʻrnini inson suyaklari bilan toʻldirdi .
15 Bundan tashqari, Isroilni gunohga botirgan Nabat oʻgʻli Yeribom Baytilda oʻrnatgan sajdagohni ham, qurbongohni ham yoʻqotdi. Sajdagohga oʻt qoʻyib, kulini koʻkka sovurdi. U Asheraning ustuniga oʻt qoʻyib yubordi. 16 Soʻngra Yoʻshiyo qayrilib qarab, adirdagi qabrlarni koʻrdi. U yerdagi qabrlarni koʻrgach, odamlarini yuborib, mozorlardagi suyaklarni chiqartirdi, Egamizning soʻziga binoan, suyaklarni qurbongohda yoqdi va shu tariqa qurbongohni bulgʻab, harom qildi. Zotan, bu haqda paygʻambar qurbongohga nido qilgan edi .
17 — Anavi yodgorlik toshi kimniki? — deb soʻradi Yoʻshiyo.
— Yahudodan kelib, Baytildagi qurbongohda siz qilgan ishlar toʻgʻrisida nido qilgan paygʻambarning qabridir, — deya javob berishdi shahar aholisi.
18 — Unga tegmanglar, — dedi shoh. — Hech kim uning suyaklarini bezovta qilmasin.
Shunday qilib, paygʻambarning suyaklariga ham, Samariyadan kelgan paygʻambarning suyaklariga ham tegmadilar.
19 Isroil shohlari butun yurt boʻylab begona xudolarning sajdagohlarini qurib Egamizni gʻazablantirgan edilar. Yoʻshiyo, xuddi Baytilda qilganiday, bu sajdagohlarni vayron qilish uchun sipohlar joʻnatdi. 20 Oʻsha shaharlardagi sajdagohlarning hamma ruhoniylarini qurbongohlarda boʻgʻizladi. Inson suyaklarini qurbongohlarda yoqdi. Shundan keyin Quddusga qaytib ketdi.
Yoʻshiyo Fisih ziyofatini nishonlaydi
21 Shoh: “Egangiz Xudoning Fisih ziyofatini bu Tavrot kitobida yozilganiday nishonlang”, deb xalqqa farmon berdi. 22-23 Shunday qilib, Yoʻshiyo hukmronligining oʻn sakkizinchi yilida xalq Quddusga yigʻilib, Egamizga atalgan Fisih ziyofatini katta qilib nishonladi. Isroilga rahnamolik qilgan hakamlar davridan buyon na Isroil shohlarining, na Yahudo shohlarining hukmronligi paytida Fisih ziyofati shu qadar nishonlanmagan edi.
Yoʻshiyo joriy qilgan islohotlar
24 Yoʻshiyo yana ruhoniy Xilqiyo Egamizning uyidan topgan kitobda yozilgan qonunni ijro etmoq maqsadida arvoh chaqiruvchilarni, folbinlarni, xonaki sanamlarni va boshqa butlarni, Yahudo va Quddusda paydo boʻlgan hamma makruh narsalarni yoʻq qilib tashladi. 25 Yoʻshiyodan oldin ham, keyin ham unga oʻxshab Musoning hamma qonunlariga muvofiq, butun qalbi bilan, jonu dili bilan, butun vujudi bilan Egamizga itoat etgan biron shoh chiqmadi.
26 Lekin Manashe qilgan gunohlari bilan Egamizning qattiq qahrini keltirgani uchun, Egamiz Yahudoga qarshi alangalangan gʻazabini hali qaytarmagan edi. 27 Shuning uchun Egamiz: “Isroil xalqini huzurimdan qanday haydagan boʻlsam, Yahudo xalqini ham shunday haydayman. Oʻzim tanlagan shahar — Quddusdan yuz oʻgiraman. Ha, Men oʻsha yerda ulugʻlanaman, deb aytgan uyimni tark etaman”, degan edi.
Yoʻshiyoning oʻlimi
28 Yoʻshiyoning boshqa ishlari, butun faoliyati “Yahudo shohlari tarixi” kitobida yozilgan. 29 Yoʻshiyo hukmronligi paytida Misr firʼavni Nexo Ossuriya shohiga yordam berish uchun Furot daryosi tomon yoʻlga chiqdi. Shoh Yoʻshiyo esa Nexoning ustiga yurish qildi. Magidoʻda toʻqnashganlarida, Nexo Yoʻshiyoni oʻldirdi . 30 Aʼyonlari Yoʻshiyoning jasadini jang aravasida Magidoʻdan Quddusga olib kelib, ota–bobolari xilxonasiga dafn qildilar. Yahudo xalqi Yoʻshiyoning oʻgʻli Yohuxozga moy surtib, uni otasining oʻrniga shoh qilib koʻtardilar.
Yahudo shohi Yohuxoz
31 Yohuxoz yigirma uch yoshida taxtga oʻtirib, Quddusda uch oy shohlik qildi. Onasining ismi Xamutal boʻlib, Libnalik Yeremiyoning qizi edi. 32 Yohuxoz ota–bobolariga oʻxshab Egamiz oldida qabih ishlar qildi.
33 Firʼavn Nexo shoh Yohuxozning Quddusdagi hukmronligiga chek qoʻyib, uni Xomat yurtidagi Rivlo shahrida zanjirband qildi. Yurt xalqidan 200 pud kumush va 2 pud oltin oʻlpon talab qildi. 34 Firʼavn Nexo Yoʻshiyoning oʻgʻli Eliyaqimni otasining oʻrniga shoh qildi va ismini oʻzgartirib Yohayiqim qoʻydi. Soʻngra Yohuxozni olib Misrga qaytdi. Yohuxoz oʻsha yerda vafot etdi.
Yahudo shohi Yohayiqim
35 Yohayiqim firʼavn istagan oltin va kumushni berdi. Nexoga oʻlpon toʻlash uchun esa yurt xalqiga soliq soldi va har biridan boyligiga qarab oltin va kumush yigʻdi. 36 Yohayiqim yigirma besh yoshida shoh boʻlib, Quddusda oʻn bir yil hukmronlik qildi. Onasining ismi Zabudo boʻlib, Rumaxlik Podiyoning qizi edi. 37 Yohayiqim, ota–bobolari singari, Egamiz oldida qabih ishlar qildi.
1 And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem. 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.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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; 23 But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
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.
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.
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. 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. 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?
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. 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.
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. 32 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done. 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. 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. 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.
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. 37 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
