اَلْمُلُوكِ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 14

١ 1 فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلزَّمَانِ مَرِضَ أَبِيَّا بْنُ يَرُبْعَامَ.

At that time Abia the son of Jeroboam fell sick.

٢ 2 فَقَالَ يَرُبْعَامُ لِٱمْرَأَتِهِ: «قُومِي غَيِّرِي شَكْلَكِ حَتَّى لَا يَعْلَمُوا أَنَّكِ ٱمْرَأَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ وَٱذْهَبِي إِلَى شِيلُوهَ. هُوَذَا هُنَاكَ أَخِيَّا ٱلنَّبِيُّ ٱلَّذِي قَالَ عَنِّي إِنِّي أَمْلِكُ عَلَى هَذَا ٱلشَّعْبِ.

And Jeroboam said to his wife: Arise, and change thy dress, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Silo, where Ahias the prophet is, who told me, that I should reign over this people.

٣ 3 وَخُذِي بِيَدِكِ عَشْرَةَ أَرْغِفَةٍ وَكَعْكًا وَجَرَّةَ عَسَلٍ، وَسِيرِي إِلَيْهِ وَهُوَ يُخْبِرُكِ مَاذَا يَكُونُ لِلْغُلَامِ».

Take also with thee ten leaves, and cracknels, and a pot of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall become of this child.

٤ 4 فَفَعَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ هَكَذَا، وَقَامَتْ وَذَهَبَتْ إِلَى شِيلُوهَ وَدَخَلَتْ بَيْتَ أَخِيَّا. وَكَانَ أَخِيَّا لَا يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يُبْصِرَ لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ قَامَتْ عَيْنَاهُ بِسَبَبِ شَيْخُوخَتِهِ.

Jeroboam’s wife did as he told her: and rising up went to Silo, and came to the house of Ahias: but he could not see, for his eyes were dim by reason of his age.

٥ 5 وَقَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِأَخِيَّا: «هُوَذَا ٱمْرَأَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ آتِيَةٌ لِتَسْأَلَ مِنْكَ شَيْئًا مِنْ جِهَةِ ٱبْنِهَا لِأَنَّهُ مَرِيضٌ. فَقُلْ لَهَا: كَذَا وَكَذَا، فَإِنَّهَا عِنْدَ دُخُولِهَا تَتَنَكَّرُ».

And the Lord said to Ahias: Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh in, to consult thee concerning her son that is sick: thus and thus shalt thou speak to her. So when she was coming in, and made as if she were another woman,

٦ 6 فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ أَخِيَّا حِسَّ رِجْلَيْهَا وَهِيَ دَاخِلَةٌ فِي ٱلْبَابِ قَالَ: «ٱدْخُلِي يَا ٱمْرَأَةَ يَرُبْعَامَ. لِمَاذَا تَتَنَكَّرِينَ وَأَنَا مُرْسَلٌ إِلَيْكِ بِقَوْلٍ قَاسٍ؟

Ahias heard the sound of her feet coming in at the door, and said: Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam: why dost thou feign thyself to be another? But I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

٧ 7 اِذْهَبِي قُولِي لِيَرُبْعَامَ: هَكَذَا قَالَ ٱلرَّبُّ إِلَهُ إِسْرَائِيلَ: مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنِّي قَدْ رَفَعْتُكَ مِنْ وَسْطِ ٱلشَّعْبِ وَجَعَلْتُكَ رَئِيسًا عَلَى شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ،

Go, and tell Jeroboam: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel:

٨ 8 وَشَقَقْتُ ٱلْمَمْلَكَةَ مِنْ بَيْتِ دَاوُدَ وَأَعْطَيْتُكَ إِيَّاهَا، وَلَمْ تَكُنْ كَعَبْدِي دَاوُدَ ٱلَّذِي حَفِظَ وَصَايَايَ وَٱلَّذِي سَارَ وَرَائِي بِكُلِّ قَلْبِهِ لِيَفْعَلَ مَا هُوَ مُسْتَقِيمٌ فَقَطْ فِي عَيْنَيَّ،

And rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it to thee, and thou hast not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and followed me with all his heart, doing that which was well pleasing in my sight:

٩ 9 وَقَدْ سَاءَ عَمَلُكَ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَانُوا قَبْلَكَ، فَسِرْتَ وَعَمِلْتَ لِنَفْسِكَ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى وَمَسْبُوكَاتٍ لِتُغِيظَنِي، وَقَدْ طَرَحْتَنِي وَرَاءَ ظَهْرِكَ.

But hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast made thee strange gods and molten gods, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

١٠ 10 لِذَلِكَ هَأَنَذَا جَالِبٌ شَرًّا عَلَى بَيْتِ يَرُبْعَامَ، وَأَقْطَعُ لِيَرُبْعَامَ كُلَّ بَائِلٍ بِحَائِطٍ مَحْجُوزًا وَمُطْلَقًا فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَأَنْزِعُ آخِرَ بَيْتِ يَرُبْعَامَ كَمَا يُنْزَعُ ٱلْبَعْرُ حَتَّى يَفْنَى.

Therefore behold I will bring evils upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut of from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up, and the last in Israel: and I will sweep away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as dung is swept away till all be clean.

١١ 11 مَنْ مَاتَ لِيَرُبْعَامَ فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ تَأْكُلُهُ ٱلْكِلَابُ، وَمَنْ مَاتَ فِي ٱلْحَقْلِ تَأْكُلُهُ طُيُورُ ٱلسَّمَاءِ، لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ تَكَلَّمَ.

Them that shall die of Jeroboam in the city, the dogs shall eat: and them that shall die in the field, the birds of the air shall devour: for the Lord hath spoken it.

١٢ 12 وَأَنْتِ فَقُومِي وَٱنْطَلِقِي إِلَى بَيْتِكِ، وَعِنْدَ دُخُولِ رِجْلَيْكِ ٱلْمَدِينَةَ يَمُوتُ ٱلْوَلَدُ،

Arise thou therefore, and go to thy house: and when thy feet shall be entering into the city, the child shall die,

١٣ 13 وَيَنْدُبُهُ جَمِيعُ إِسْرَائِيلَ وَيَدْفِنُونَهُ، لِأَنَّ هَذَا وَحْدَهُ مِنْ يَرُبْعَامَ يَدْخُلُ ٱلْقَبْرَ، لِأَنَّهُ وُجِدَ فِيهِ أَمْرٌ صَالِحٌ نَحْوَ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ فِي بَيْتِ يَرُبْعَامَ.

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and shall bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall be laid in a sepulchre, because in his regard there is found a good word from the Lord the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

١٤ 14 وَيُقِيمُ ٱلرَّبُّ لِنَفْسِهِ مَلِكًا عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ يَقْرِضُ بَيْتَ يَرُبْعَامَ هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمَ. وَمَاذَا؟ اَلْآنَ أَيْضًا!

And the Lord hath appointed himself a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam in this day, and in this time:

١٥ 15 وَيَضْرِبُ ٱلرَّبُّ إِسْرَائِيلَ كَٱهْتِزَازِ ٱلْقَصَبِ فِي ٱلْمَاءِ، وَيَسْتَأْصِلُ إِسْرَائِيلَ عَنْ هَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ ٱلصَّالِحَةِ ٱلَّتِي أَعْطَاهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ، وَيُبَدِّدُهُمْ إِلَى عَبْرِ ٱلنَّهْرِ لِأَنَّهُمْ عَمِلُوا سَوَارِيَهُمْ وَأَغَاظُوا ٱلرَّبَّ.

And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

١٦ 16 وَيَدْفَعُ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ أَجْلِ خَطَايَا يَرُبْعَامَ ٱلَّذِي أَخْطَأَ وَجَعَلَ إِسْرَائِيلَ يُخْطِئُ».

And the Lord shall give up Israel for the sins of Jeroboam, who hath sinned, and made Israel to sin.

١٧ 17 فَقَامَتِ ٱمْرَأَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ وَذَهَبَتْ وَجَاءَتْ إِلَى تِرْصَةَ، وَلَمَّا وَصَلَتْ إِلَى عَتَبَةِ ٱلْبَابِ مَاتَ ٱلْغُلَامُ،

And the wife of Jeroboam arose, and departed, and came to Thersa: and when she was coming in to the threshold of the house, the child died;

١٨ 18 فَدَفَنَهُ وَنَدَبَهُ جَمِيعُ إِسْرَائِيلَ حَسَبَ كَلَامِ ٱلرَّبِّ ٱلَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ بِهِ عَنْ يَدِ عَبْدِهِ أَخِيَّا ٱلنَّبِيِّ.

And they buried him. And all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke by the hand of his servant Ahias the prophet.

١٩ 19 وَأَمَّا بَقِيَّةُ أُمُورِ يَرُبْعَامَ، كَيْفَ حَارَبَ وَكَيْفَ مَلَكَ، فَإِنَّهَا مَكْتُوبَةٌ فِي سِفْرِ أَخْبَارِ ٱلْأَيَّامِ لِمُلُوكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought, and how he reigned, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Israel.

٢٠ 20 وَٱلزَّمَانُ ٱلَّذِي مَلَكَ فِيهِ يَرُبْعَامُ هُوَ ٱثْنَتَانِ وَعِشْرُونَ سَنَةً، ثُمَّ ٱضْطَجَعَ مَعَ آبَائِهِ، وَمَلَكَ نَادَابُ ٱبْنُهُ عِوَضًا عَنْهُ.

And the days that Jeroboam reigned, were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers: and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.

٢١ 21 وَأَمَّا رَحُبْعَامُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ فَمَلَكَ فِي يَهُوذَا. وَكَانَ رَحُبْعَامُ ٱبْنَ إِحْدَى وَأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَمَلَكَ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، ٱلْمَدِينَةِ ٱلَّتِي ٱخْتَارَهَا ٱلرَّبُّ لِوَضْعِ ٱسْمِهِ فِيهَا مِنْ جَمِيعِ أَسْبَاطِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَٱسْمُ أُمِّهِ نِعْمَةُ ٱلْعَمُّونِيَّةُ.

And Roboam the son of Solomon reigned in Juda: Roboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city, which the Lord chose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. And his mother’s name wee Naama an Ammonitess.

٢٢ 22 وَعَمِلَ يَهُوذَا ٱلشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَأَغَارُوهُ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ جَمِيعِ مَا عَمِلَ آبَاؤُهُمْ بِخَطَايَاهُمُ ٱلَّتِي أَخْطَأُوا بِهَا.

And Juda did evil in the sight of the Lord, and provoked him above all that their fathers had done, in their sins which they committed.

٢٣ 23 وَبَنَوْا هُمْ أَيْضًا لِأَنْفُسِهِمْ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ وَأَنْصَابًا وَسَوَارِيَ عَلَى كُلِّ تَلٍّ مُرْتَفِعٍ وَتَحْتَ كُلِّ شَجَرَةٍ خَضْرَاءَ.

For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves upon every high hill and under every green tree:

٢٤ 24 وَكَانَ أَيْضًا مَأْبُونُونَ فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ، فَعَلُوا حَسَبَ كُلِّ أَرْجَاسِ ٱلْأُمَمِ ٱلَّذِينَ طَرَدَهُمُ ٱلرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

There were also the effeminate in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the people whom the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

٢٥ 25 وَفِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلْخَامِسَةِ لِلْمَلِكِ رَحُبْعَامَ، صَعِدَ شِيشَقُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ،

And in the fifth year of the reign of Roboam, Sesac king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem.

٢٦ 26 وَأَخَذَ خَزَائِنَ بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَخَزَائِنَ بَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَأَخَذَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ. وَأَخَذَ جَمِيعَ أَتْرَاسِ ٱلذَّهَبِ ٱلَّتِي عَمِلَهَا سُلَيْمَانُ.

And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king’s treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

٢٧ 27 فَعَمِلَ ٱلْمَلِكُ رَحُبْعَامُ عِوَضًا عَنْهَا أَتْرَاسَ نُحَاسٍ وَسَلَّمَهَا لِيَدِ رُؤَسَاءِ ٱلسُّعَاةِ ٱلْحَافِظِينَ بَابَ بَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ.

And Roboam made shields of brass instead of them, and delivered them into the. hand of the captains of the shieldbearers, and of them that kept watch before the gate of the king’s house.

٢٨ 28 وَكَانَ إِذَا دَخَلَ ٱلْمَلِكُ بَيْتَ ٱلرَّبِّ يَحْمِلُهَا ٱلسُّعَاةُ، ثُمَّ يُرْجِعُونَهَا إِلَى غُرْفَةِ ٱلسُّعَاةِ.

And when the king went into the house of the Lord, they whose office it was to go before him, carried them: and afterwards they brought them back to the armoury of the shieldbearers.

٢٩ 29 وَبَقِيَّةُ أُمُورِ رَحُبْعَامَ وَكُلُّ مَا فَعَلَ، أَمَا هِيَ مَكْتُوبَةٌ فِي سِفْرِ أَخْبَارِ ٱلْأَيَّامِ لِمُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا؟

Now the rest of the sets of Roboam, and all that he did, behold they are written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Juda.

٣٠ 30 وَكَانَتْ حَرْبٌ بَيْنَ رَحُبْعَامَ وَيَرُبْعَامَ كُلَّ ٱلْأَيَّامِ.

And there was war between Roboam and Jeroboam always.

٣١ 31 ثُمَّ ٱضْطَجَعَ رَحُبْعَامُ مَعَ آبَائِهِ، وَدُفِنَ مَعَ آبَائِهِ فِي مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ. وَٱسْمُ أُمِّهِ نِعْمَةُ ٱلْعَمُّونِيَّةُ. وَمَلَكَ أَبِيَامُ ٱبْنُهُ عِوَضًا عَنْهُ.

And Roboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with them in the city of David: and his mother’s name was Naama an Ammonitess: and Abiam his son reigned in his stead.