Pembuangan dan Kembalinya Orang Israel

2Raja-raja 17; 24-25; 2Tawarikh 36; Ezra 1-10; Nehemia 1-13

The Exile and Return

2Raja-raja 17; 24-25; 2Tawarikh 36; Ezra 1-10; Nehemia 1-13

1. Bangsa Israel dan Bangsa Yehuda keduanya berdosa terhadap Allah. Mereka melanggar Perjanjian yang Allah buat dengan mereka di Gunung Sinai. Allah mengutus para nabi-Nya untuk memperingatkan mereka agar bertobat dan menyembah-Nya lagi, tetapi mereka tidak mau mendengarkan.

1. The kingdom of Israel and the kingdom of Judah both sinned against God. They broke the covenant that God had made with them at Sinai. God sent his prophets to warn them to repent and worship him again, but they refused to obey.

Pertanyaan 1: Apa peringatan yang disampaikan kepada umat oleh para nabi?
Pertanyaan 2: Bagaimana umat menanggapi pesan dari para nabi?

Jawaban 1: Mereka menyuruh mereka untuk bertobat dan menyembah Allah. [20-01]
Jawaban 2: Umat menolak untuk taat. [20-01]

Question 1: What was the warning that the prophets spoke to the people?
Question 2: How did the people respond to the message from the prophets?

Answer 1: They told them to repent and worship God. [20-01]
Answer 2: The people refused to obey. [20-01]

2. Jadi Allah menghukum kedua bangsa itu dengan membiarkan mereka dihancurkan. Israel dihancurkan oleh Kekaisaran Asyur, bangsa yang kuat dan kejam. Orang-orang Asyur membunuh banyak orang Israel, mengambil segala sesuatu yang berharga, dan membakar banyak wilayah negari itu.

2. So God punished both kingdoms by allowing their enemies to destroy them. The Assyrian Empire, a powerful, cruel nation, destroyed the kingdom of Israel. The Assyrians killed many people in the kingdom of Israel, took away everything of value, and burned much of the country.

Pertanyaan 3: Siapa musuh yang menghancurkan kerajaan Israel?

Jawaban 3: Kerajaan Asyur. [20-02]

Question 3: What enemy destroyed the kingdom of Israel?

Answer 3: The Assyrian Empire. [20-02]

3. Orang-orang Asyur mengumpulkan semua pemimpin, orang-orang kaya, dan orang-orang yang mempunyai keahlian dan membawa mereka ke Asyur. Hanya orang-orang Israel yang sangat miskin yang tidak terbunuh tetap tinggal di Israel.

3. The Assyrians gathered all the leaders, the rich people, and the people with skills and took them to Assyria. Only the very poor Israelites who had not been killed remained in the kingdom of Israel.

4. Kemudian orang-orang Asyur membawa orang-orang asing untuk tinggal di Israel. Orang-orang asing itu membangun kembali kota-kota yang hancur dan menikahi orang Israel yang tertinggal di sana. Keturunan mereka disebut orang Samaria.

4. Then the Assyrians brought foreigners to live in the land where the kingdom of Israel had been. The foreigners rebuilt the destroyed cities and married the Israelites who were left there. The descendants of the Israelites who married foreigners were called Samaritans.

Pertanyaan 4: Siapa itu orang-orang Samaria?

Jawaban 4: Keturunan dari orang Israel yang menikah dengan orang-orang asing yang dibawa ke dalam negeri oleh orang-orang Asyur. [20-04]

Question 4: Who were the Samaritans?

Answer 4: The descendants of the Israelites who married the foreigners brought to the land by the Assyrians. [20-04]

5. Orang-orang di kerajaan Yehuda melihat bagaimana Allah telah menghukum kerajaan Israel karena tidak percaya dan menaati-Nya. Tapi mereka masih menyembah berhala dan dewa-dewa orang Kanaan. Allah mengutus para nabi untuk memperingatkan mereka, tetapi mereka tidak mau mendengarkan.

5. The people in the kingdom of Judah saw how God had punished the people of the kingdom of Israel for not believing and obeying him. But they still worshiped idols, including the gods of the Canaanites. God sent prophets to warn them, but they refused to listen.

Pertanyaan 5: Apa orang-orang dari kerajaan Yehuda menaati Allah ketika mereka melihat bagaimana Dia menghukum kerajaan Israel?

Jawaban 5: Tidak, mereka terus menyembah berhala. [20-05]

Question 5: Did the people of the kingdom of Judah obey God when they saw how he had punished the kingdom of Israel?

Answer 5: No, they continued worshiping idols. [20-05]

6. Kira-kira 100 tahun setelah orang-orang Asyur menghancurkan Israel, Allah mengirimkan Nebukadnezar, raja Babel, untuk menyerang negeri Yehuda. Babel adalah sebuah kerajaan yang kuat. Raja Yehuda setuju untuk menjadi hamba Nebukadnezar dan membayar upeti yang besar setiap tahun.

6. About 100 years after the Assyrians destroyed the kingdom of Israel, God sent Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians, to attack the kingdom of Judah. Babylon was a powerful empire. The king of Judah agreed to be Nebuchadnezzar’s servant and pay him a lot of money every year.

Pertanyaan 6: Raja Yehuda setuju untuk melayani siapa? **(saran: Kepada siapakah raja Yehuda setuju untuk melayaninya?)

Jawaban 6: Raja Nebukadnezar dari Babel. [20-06]

Question 6: Who did the king of Judah agree to serve?

Answer 6: King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. [20-06]

7. Tapi tidak lama kemudian orang-orang Yehuda memberontak terhadap Babel. Jadi, orang-orang Babel datang kembali dan menyerang mereka. Mereka merebut kota Yerusalem, menghancurkan Bait Allah, dan mengambil semua barang berharga dari Bait Allah.

7. But after a few years, the king of Judah rebelled against Babylon. So, the Babylonians came back and attacked the kingdom of Judah. They captured the city of Jerusalem, destroyed the Temple, and took away all the treasures of the city and the Temple.

8. Untuk menghukum raja Yehuda karena pemberontakannya, tentara Nebukadnezar membunuh anak-anak raja di depannya dan kemudian membuatnya buta. Setelah itu, mereka membawa raja untuk dipenjarakan sampai mati di Babel.

8. To punish the king of Judah for rebelling, Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers killed the king’s sons in front of him and then made him blind. After that, they took the king away to die in prison in Babylon.

Pertanyaan 7: Ketika raja Yehuda memberontak, apa yang dilakukan oleh para tentara Nebukadnezar terhadapnya?

Jawaban 7: Mereka membunuh anak raja di depannya, membutakan matanya, dan membawanya ke penjara di Babel sampai meninggal. [20-08]

Question 7: When the king of Judah rebelled, what did Nebuchadnezzar’s soldiers do to him?

Answer 7: They killed the king’s sons in front of him, made him blind, and took him away to die in prison in Babylon. [20-08]

9. Nebukadnezar dan pasukannya membawa semua orang Yehuda ke Babel, hanya menyisakan orang-orang yang termiskin tinggal di Yehuda untuk menanam ladang. Peristiwa ini disebut sebagai Pembuangan.

9. Nebuchadnezzar and his army took almost all of the people of the kingdom of Judah to Babylon, leaving only the poorest people behind to plant the fields. This period of time when God’s people were forced to leave the Promised Land is called the Exile.

Pertanyaan 8: Apa sebutan untuk masa ketika umat Allah dipaksa untuk meninggalkan Tanah Perjanjian?

Jawaban 8: Pembuangan. [20-09]

Question 8: What do we call the period of time when God’s people were forced to leave the Promised Land?

Answer 8: The Exile. [20-09]

10. Walaupun Pembuangan merupakan hukuman atas dosa mereka, Allah tidak melupakan umat-Nya atau janji-Nya. Allah mengawasi umat-Nya dan berbicara kepada mereka melalui para nabi-Nya. Dia berjanji bahwa, setelah tujuh puluh tahun, mereka akan kembali ke Tanah Perjanjian lagi.

10. Even though God punished his people for their sin by taking them away into exile, he did not forget them or his promises. God continued to watch over his people and speak to them through his prophets. He promised that, after seventy years, they would return to the Promised Land again.

Pertanyaan 9: Apa yang dijanjikan Allah kepada umat selama Pembuangan?

Jawaban 9: Allah berjanji bahwa setelah tujuh puluh tahun, mereka akan kembali ke Tanah Perjanjian. [20-10]

Question 9: What did God promise to the people during the Exile?

Answer 9: God promised that after seventy years, they would return to the Promised Land. [20-10]

11. Kira-kira tujuh puluh tahun kemudian, Koresh, raja Persia, mengalahkan Babel. Orang-orang Persia adalah orang-orang yang kuat tapi penyayang. Orang-orang Israel saat itu disebut orang Yahudi dan sebagian besar dari mereka telah tinggal di Babel seumur hidup mereka. Hanya beberapa orang Yahudi yang sangat tua yang masih ingat tanah Yehuda.

11. About seventy years later, Cyrus, the king of the Persians, defeated Babylon, so the Persian Empire replaced the Babylonian Empire. The Israelites were now called Jews and most of them had lived their whole lives in Babylon. Only a few very old Jews even remembered the land of Judah.

Pertanyaan 10: Siapa raja yang mengalahkan Babel?

Jawaban 10: Raja Koresy dari Kerajaan Persia. [20-11]

Question 10: Who was the king who defeated the Babylonians?

Answer 10: King Cyrus of the Persian Empire. [20-11]

12. Tak lama setelah Koresh berkuasa, dia melakukan sesuatu yang belum pernah dilakukan sebelumnya dalam sejarah. Dia memberi perintah bahwa setiap orang Yahudi yang ingin kembali ke Yehuda bisa pergi. Dia bahkan memberi mereka uang untuk membangun kembali Bait Allah! Setelah tujuh puluh tahun di pengasingan, sekelompok kecil orang-orang Yahudi kembali ke Yerusalem.

12. The Persian Empire was strong but merciful to the people it conquered. Shortly after Cyrus became king of the Persians, he gave an order that any Jew who wanted to return to Judah could leave Persia and go back to Judah. He even gave them money to rebuild the Temple! So, after seventy years in exile, a small group of Jews returned to the city of Jerusalem in Judah.

Pertanyaan 11: Perintah apa yang diberikan oleh Raja Koresy tentang orang Yahudi?

Jawaban 11: Orang Yahudi siapa pun yang ingin kembali ke Yehuda bisa pergi ke sana. [20-12]

Question 11: What order did King Cyrus give concerning the Jews?

Answer 11: Any Jew who wanted to return to Judah could go there. [20-12]

13. Ketika mereka tiba, mereka membangun kembali Bait Allah dan tembok sekeliling kota Yerusalem. Meskipun mereka masih diperintah oleh orang lain, mereka tinggal di Tanah Perjanjian lagi dan menyembah di Bait Allah.

13. When the people arrived in Jerusalem, they rebuilt the Temple and the wall around the city. Although they were still ruled by other people, once again they lived in the Promised Land and worshiped at the Temple.

Pertanyaan 12: Apa yang dilakukan orang Yahudi ketika mereka kembali ke Yerusalem?

Jawaban 12: Mereka membangun kembali bait Allah dan tembok mengelilingi kota. [20-13]

Question 12: What did the Jews do when they returned to Jerusalem?

Answer 12: They rebuilt the Temple and the wall around the city. [20-13]