اَلْمُلُوكِ ٱلْأَوَّلُ 14

١ 1 فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلزَّمَانِ مَرِضَ أَبِيَّا بْنُ يَرُبْعَامَ.

It was at that time that Abijah, Jeroboam's son, fell ill.

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.

So Jeroboam told his wife, “Please go and disguise yourself so nobody will know you're Jeroboam's wife. Then go to Shiloh and look for Ahijah the prophet. He was the one who told me I would become king over this people.

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

Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey for him. He will explain to you what will happen to the boy.”

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 she was told. She got up and went to Ahijah's house in Shiloh. Ahijah could not see—he had become blind because 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».

But the Lord had told Ahijah, “Look, Jeroboam's wife is coming to ask you about her son, because he's ill. This is what you are to tell her, because she'll come in disguise.”

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

So as soon as Ahijah heard her footsteps at the door, he called out, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why do you bother coming in disguise? I have been given some bad news for you.

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 this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I picked you from the masses and I made you ruler 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،

I took the kingdom from the house of David and gave it to you. But you were not like my servant David, who kept my commandments and was totally committed to following me, only doing what was right 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.

You have done more evil than all those who lived before you. You have gone and made other gods for yourself, idols made of molten metal that made me angry. You have tossed me aside.

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.

Now pay attention, because as a result of this I am going to bring disaster on the house of Jeroboam. I will totally exterminate every one of your descendants in Israel, whether slave or free. I will burn the house of Jeroboam like a man burning refuse until it's all gone.

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

Those of Jeroboam's family who die in the town will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the countryside will be eaten by birds. For the Lord has spoken.

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

As for you, get up and go home. As soon as you arrive in the city, the child will 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.

All of Israel will mourn for him, and they will bury him. He alone of Jeroboam's family will be buried in a tomb because only in him has the Lord, the God of Israel found anything good—of the whole family of Jeroboam.

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

The Lord will choose for himself a king to rule over Israel who will destroy the house of Jeroboam. This is starting to happen even now!

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.

The Lord will strike Israel like a reed jerked to and fro by the water. He will pull up Israel by the roots from this good land that he gave their forefathers and scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their pagan Asherah poles, making the Lord angry.

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

He will abandon Israel because of the sins of Jeroboam, those that he committed himself, and those he made Israel commit.”

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

Jeroboam's wife got up and left for Tirzah. As soon as she stepped through the doorway of her home, the boy died.

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

All of Israel buried him and mourned for him, just as the Lord had said through his servant Ahijah the prophet.

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

The rest of what Jeroboam did, how he engaged in warfare and how he reigned, they are recorded in the Book of Chronicles 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.

Jeroboam reigned for twenty-two years, and then he died. His son Nadab succeeded him as king.

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.

Rehoboam, son of Solomon, reigned in Judah. He was forty-one when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel where he would be honored. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonite.

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

Judah did what was evil in the Lord's sight, and because of the sins they committed they made his jealous anger even greater than all their fathers had done.

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

They also set up for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on 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 even cult prostitutes in the land. They followed all the disgusting practices of the nations that the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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

In the fifth year of King Rehoboam's reign, Shishak, king of Egypt, attacked Jerusalem.

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

He took the treasures of the Lord's Temple and the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

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

So King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and handed them over to the captains of the guard to look after. They stood on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.

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

Whenever the king went to the Lord's Temple, the guards would carry the shields. Afterwards they returned them to the guardroom.

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

The rest of what happened in Rehoboam's reign and everything that he did are recorded in the Book of Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.

٣٠ 30 وَكَانَتْ حَرْبٌ بَيْنَ رَحُبْعَامَ وَيَرُبْعَامَ كُلَّ ٱلْأَيَّامِ.

Rehoboam and Jeroboam were always at war with each other.

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

Rehoboam died and was buried with his ancestors in the City of David. The name of his mother was Naamah the Ammonite. His son Abijam succeeded him as king.