اَلْمُلُوكِ ٱلثَّانِي 18

١ 1 وَفِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلثَّالِثَةِ لِهُوشَعَ بْنِ أَيْلَةَ مَلِكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ مَلَكَ حَزَقِيَّا بْنُ آحَازَ مَلِكِ يَهُوذَا.

And it comes to pass, in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz, king of Judah, has reigned;

٢ 2 كَانَ ٱبْنَ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَمَلَكَ تِسْعًا وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، وَٱسْمُ أُمِّهِ أَبِي ٱبْنَةُ زَكَرِيَّا.

he was a son of twenty-five years in his reigning, and he has reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother [is] Abi daughter of Zechariah.

٣ 3 وَعَمِلَ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمَ فِي عَيْنَيِ ٱلرَّبِّ حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَا عَمِلَ دَاوُدُ أَبُوهُ.

And he does that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that his father David did,

٤ 4 هُوَ أَزَالَ ٱلْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ، وَكَسَّرَ ٱلتَّمَاثِيلَ، وَقَطَّعَ ٱلسَّوَارِيَ، وَسَحَقَ حَيَّةَ ٱلنُّحَاسِ ٱلَّتِي عَمِلَهَا مُوسَى لِأَنَّ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ كَانُوا إِلَى تِلْكَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ يُوقِدُونَ لَهَا وَدَعَوْهَا «نَحُشْتَانَ».

he has turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the Asherah, and beaten down the bronze serpent that Moses made, for up to these days the sons of Israel were making incense to it, and he calls it “a piece of bronze.”

٥ 5 عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ ٱتَّكَلَ، وَبَعْدَهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِثْلُهُ فِي جَمِيعِ مُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا وَلَا فِي ٱلَّذِينَ كَانُوا قَبْلَهُ.

In YHWH, God of Israel, he has trusted, and after him there has not been like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [among any] who were before him;

٦ 6 وَٱلْتَصَقَ بِٱلرَّبِّ وَلَمْ يَحِدْ عَنْهُ، بَلْ حَفِظَ وَصَايَاهُ ٱلَّتِي أَمَرَ بِهَا ٱلرَّبُّ مُوسَى.

and he cleaves to YHWH, he has not turned aside from after Him, and keeps His commands that YHWH commanded Moses.

٧ 7 وَكَانَ ٱلرَّبُّ مَعَهُ، وَحَيْثُمَا كَانَ يَخْرُجُ كَانَ يَنْجَحُ. وَعَصَى عَلَى مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ وَلَمْ يَتَعَبَّدْ لَهُ.

And YHWH has been with him; in every place where he goes out he acts wisely, and he rebels against the king of Asshur, and has not served him;

٨ 8 هُوَ ضَرَبَ ٱلْفِلِسْطِينِيِّينَ إِلَى غَزَّةَ وَتُخُومِهَا، مِنْ بُرْجِ ٱلنَّوَاطِيرِ إِلَى ٱلْمَدِينَةِ ٱلْمُحَصَّنَةِ.

he has struck the Philistines, even to Gaza and its borders, from a tower of watchers to the fortified city.

٩ 9 وَفِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلرَّابِعَةِ لِلْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا، وَهِيَ ٱلسَّنَةُ ٱلسَّابِعَةُ لِهُوشَعَ بْنِ أَيْلَةَ مَلِكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، صَعِدَ شَلْمَنْأَسَرُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ عَلَى ٱلسَّامِرَةِ وَحَاصَرَهَا.

And it comes to pass, in the fourth year of King Hezekiah—it [is] the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah, king of Israel—Shalmaneser king of Asshur has come up against Samaria and lays siege to it,

١٠ 10 وَأَخَذُوهَا فِي نِهَايَةِ ثَلَاثِ سِنِينَ. فَفِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلسَّادِسَةِ لِحَزَقِيَّا، وَهِيَ ٱلسَّنَةُ ٱلتَّاسِعَةُ لِهُوشَعَ مَلِكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ، أُخِذَتِ ٱلسَّامِرَةُ.

and they capture it at the end of three years; in the sixth year of Hezekiah—it [is] the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel—Samaria has been captured,

١١ 11 وَسَبَى مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ إِسْرَائِيلَ إِلَى أَشُّورَ، وَوَضَعَهُمْ فِي حَلَحَ وَخَابُورَ نَهْرِ جُوزَانَ وَفِي مُدُنِ مَادِي،

and the king of Asshur removes Israel to Asshur, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor [by] the river Gozan, and [in] cities of the Medes,

١٢ 12 لِأَنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَسْمَعُوا لِصَوْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِهِمْ، بَلْ تَجَاوَزُوا عَهْدَهُ وَكُلَّ مَا أَمَرَ بِهِ مُوسَى عَبْدُ ٱلرَّبِّ، فَلَمْ يَسْمَعُوا وَلَمْ يَعْمَلُوا.

because that they have not listened to the voice of their God YHWH, and transgress His covenant—all that He commanded Moses, servant of YHWH—indeed, they have not listened nor done [it].

١٣ 13 وَفِي ٱلسَّنَةِ ٱلرَّابِعَةَ عَشْرَةَ لِلْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا، صَعِدَ سَنْحَارِيبُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا ٱلْحَصِينَةِ وَأَخَذَهَا.

And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Asshur has come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and seizes them,

١٤ 14 وَأَرْسَلَ حَزَقِيَّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذَا إِلَى مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ إِلَى لَخِيشَ يَقُولُ: «قَدْ أَخْطَأْتُ. ٱرْجِعْ عَنِّي، وَمَهْمَا جَعَلْتَ عَلَيَّ حَمَلْتُهُ». فَوَضَعَ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ عَلَى حَزَقِيَّا مَلِكِ يَهُوذَا ثَلَاثَ مِئَةِ وَزْنَةٍ مِنَ ٱلْفِضَّةِ وَثَلَاثِينَ وَزْنَةً مِنَ ٱلذَّهَبِ.

and Hezekiah king of Judah sends to the king of Asshur at Lachish, saying, “I have sinned, turn back from off me; that which you put on me I bear”; and the king of Asshur lays on Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold,

١٥ 15 فَدَفَعَ حَزَقِيَّا جَمِيعَ ٱلْفِضَّةِ ٱلْمَوْجُودَةِ فِي بَيْتِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَفِي خَزَائِنِ بَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ.

and Hezekiah gives all the silver that is found in the house of YHWH and in the treasures of the house of the king;

١٦ 16 فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلزَّمَانِ قَشَّرَ حَزَقِيَّا ٱلذَّهَبَ عَنْ أَبْوَابِ هَيْكَلِ ٱلرَّبِّ وَٱلدَّعَائِمِ ٱلَّتِي كَانَ قَدْ غَشَّاهَا حَزَقِيَّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذَا، وَدَفَعَهُ لِمَلِكِ أَشُّورَ.

at that time Hezekiah has cut off the doors of the temple of YHWH, and the pillars that Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gives them to the king of Asshur.

١٧ 17 وَأَرْسَلَ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ تَرْتَانَ وَرَبْسَارِيسَ وَرَبْشَاقَى مِنْ لَخِيشَ إِلَى ٱلْمَلِكِ حَزَقِيَّا بِجَيْشٍ عَظِيمٍ إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ، فَصَعِدُوا وَأَتَوْا إِلَى أُورُشَلِيمَ. وَلَمَّا صَعِدُوا جَاءُوا وَوَقَفُوا عِنْدَ قَنَاةِ ٱلْبِرْكَةِ ٱلْعُلْيَا ٱلَّتِي فِي طَرِيقِ حَقْلِ ٱلْقَصَّارِ.

And the king of Asshur sends Tartan, and the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the butlers, from Lachish, to King Hezekiah, with a heavy force, to Jerusalem, and they go up and come to Jerusalem, and they go up, and come in and stand by the conduit of the upper pool that [is] in the highway of the fuller’s field.

١٨ 18 وَدَعَوْا ٱلْمَلِكَ، فَخَرَجَ إِلَيْهِمْ أَلِيَاقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيَّا ٱلَّذِي عَلَى ٱلْبَيْتِ وَشِبْنَةُ ٱلْكَاتِبُ وَيُواخُ بْنُ آسَافَ ٱلْمُسَجِّلُ.

And they call to the king, and Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, go out to them.

١٩ 19 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَبْشَاقَى: «قُولُوا لِحَزَقِيَّا: هَكَذَا يَقُولُ ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱلْعَظِيمُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ: مَا ٱلِٱتِّكَالُ ٱلَّذِي ٱتَّكَلْتَ؟

And the chief of the butlers says to them, “Now say to Hezekiah, Thus said the great king, the king of Asshur: What [is] this confidence in which you have confided?

٢٠ 20 قُلْتَ إِنَّمَا كَلَامُ ٱلشَّفَتَيْنِ هُوَ مَشُورَةٌ وَبَأْسٌ لِلْحَرْبِ. وَٱلْآنَ عَلَى مَنِ ٱتَّكَلْتَ حَتَّى عَصَيْتَ عَلَيَّ؟

You have said: Only a word of the lips! Counsel and might [are] for battle; now, on whom have you trusted that you have rebelled against me?

٢١ 21 فَٱلْآنَ هُوَذَا قَدِ ٱتَّكَلْتَ عَلَى عُكَّازِ هَذِهِ ٱلْقَصَبَةِ ٱلْمَرْضُوضَةِ، عَلَى مِصْرَ، ٱلَّتِي إِذَا تَوَكَّأَ أَحَدٌ عَلَيْهَا، دَخَلَتْ فِي كَفِّهِ وَثَقَبَتْهَا! هَكَذَا هُوَ فِرْعَوْنُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ لِجَمِيعِ ٱلْمُتَّكِلِينَ عَلَيْهِ.

Now behold, you have trusted for yourself on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; which a man leans on, and it has gone into his hand and pierced it! So [is] Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

٢٢ 22 وَإِذَا قُلْتُمْ لِي: عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ إِلَهِنَا ٱتَّكَلْنَا، أَفَلَيْسَ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي أَزَالَ حَزَقِيَّا مُرْتَفَعَاتِهِ وَمَذَابِحَهُ، وَقَالَ لِيَهُوذَا وَلِأُورُشَلِيمَ: أَمَامَ هَذَا ٱلْمَذْبَحِ تَسْجُدُونَ فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ؟

And when you say to me, We have trusted in our God YHWH, is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has turned aside, and says to Judah and to Jerusalem, You bow yourselves before this altar in Jerusalem?

٢٣ 23 وَٱلْآنَ رَاهِنْ سَيِّدِي مَلِكَ أَشُّورَ، فَأُعْطِيَكَ أَلْفَيْ فَرَسٍ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَقْدِرُ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ عَلَيْهَا رَاكِبِينَ.

And now, please give a pledge for yourself to my lord the king of Asshur, and I give two thousand horses to you, if you are able to give riders for yourself on them.

٢٤ 24 فَكَيْفَ تَرُدُّ وَجْهَ وَالٍ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ عَبِيدِ سَيِّدِي ٱلصِّغَارِ، وَتَتَّكِلُ عَلَى مِصْرَ لِأَجْلِ مَرْكَبَاتٍ وَفُرْسَانٍ؟

And how do you turn back the face of one captain of the least of the servants of my lord, that you trust for yourself on Egypt for chariot and for horsemen?

٢٥ 25 وَٱلْآنَ هَلْ بِدُونِ ٱلرَّبِّ صَعِدْتُ عَلَى هَذَا ٱلْمَوْضِعِ لِأَخْرِبَهُ؟ اَلرَّبُّ قَالَ لِي ٱصْعَدْ عَلَى هَذِهِ ٱلْأَرْضِ وَٱخْرِبْهَا».

Have I now come up without YHWH against this place to destroy it? YHWH said to me, Go up against this land, and you have destroyed it.”

٢٦ 26 فَقَالَ أَلِيَاقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيَّا وَشِبْنَةُ وَيُواخُ لِرَبْشَاقَى: «كَلِّمْ عَبِيدَكَ بِٱلْأَرَامِيِّ لِأَنَّنَا نَفْهَمُهُ، وَلَا تُكَلِّمْنَا بِٱلْيَهُودِيِّ فِي مَسَامِعِ ٱلشَّعْبِ ٱلَّذِينَ عَلَى ٱلسُّورِ».

And Eliakim son of Hilkiah says—and Shebna and Joah—to the chief of the butlers, “Please speak to your servants [in] Aramaic, for we are understanding, but do not speak with us [in] Jewish, in the ears of the people who [are] on the wall.”

٢٧ 27 فَقَالَ لَهُمْ رَبْشَاقَى: «هَلْ إِلَى سَيِّدِكَ وَإِلَيْكَ أَرْسَلَنِي سَيِّدِي لِكَيْ أَتَكَلَّمَ بِهَذَا ٱلْكَلَامِ؟ أَلَيْسَ إِلَى ٱلرِّجَالِ ٱلْجَالِسِينَ عَلَى ٱلسُّورِ لِيَأْكُلُوا عَذِرَتَهُمْ وَيَشْرَبُوا بَوْلَهُمْ مَعَكُمْ؟»

And the chief of the butlers says to them, “For your lord, and to you, has my lord sent me to speak these words? Is it not for the men—those sitting on the wall—to eat their own dung and to drink their own water, with you?”

٢٨ 28 ثُمَّ وَقَفَ رَبْشَاقَى وَنَادَى بِصَوْتٍ عَظِيمٍ بِٱلْيَهُودِيِّ وَتَكَلَّمَ قَائِلًا: «ٱسْمَعُوا كَلَامَ ٱلْمَلِكِ ٱلْعَظِيمِ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ.

And the chief of the butlers stands and calls with a great voice [in] Jewish, and speaks and says, “Hear a word of the great king, the king of Asshur—

٢٩ 29 هَكَذَا يَقُولُ ٱلْمَلِكُ: لَا يَخْدَعْكُمْ حَزَقِيَّا، لِأَنَّهُ لَا يَقْدِرُ أَنْ يُنْقِذَكُمْ مِنْ يَدِهِ،

thus said the king: Do not let Hezekiah lift you up, for he is not able to deliver you out of his hand;

٣٠ 30 وَلَا يَجْعَلْكُمْ حَزَقِيَّا تَتَّكِلُونَ عَلَى ٱلرَّبِّ قَائِلًا: إِنْقَاذًا يُنْقِذُنَا ٱلرَّبُّ وَلَا تُدْفَعُ هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةُ إِلَى يَدِ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ.

and do not let Hezekiah make you trust in YHWH, saying, YHWH certainly delivers us, and this city is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur.

٣١ 31 لَا تَسْمَعُوا لِحَزَقِيَّا. لِأَنَّهُ هَكَذَا يَقُولُ مَلِكُ أَشُّورَ: ٱعْقِدُوا مَعِي صُلْحًا، وَٱخْرُجُوا إِلَيَّ، وَكُلُوا كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ جَفْنَتِهِ وَكُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْ تِينَتِهِ، وَٱشْرَبُوا كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مَاءَ بِئْرِهِ

Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus said the king of Asshur: Make a blessing with me, and come out to me, and each eat of his vine, and each [eat] of his fig tree, and each drink the waters of his own well,

٣٢ 32 حَتَّى آتِيَ وَآخُذَكُمْ إِلَى أَرْضٍ كَأَرْضِكُمْ، أَرْضَ حِنْطَةٍ وَخَمْرٍ، أَرْضَ خُبْزٍ وَكُرُومٍ، أَرْضَ زَيْتُونٍ وَعَسَلٍ وَٱحْيَوْا وَلَا تَمُوتُوا. وَلَا تَسْمَعُوا لِحَزَقِيَّا لِأَنَّهُ يَغُرُّكُمْ قَائِلًا: ٱلرَّبُّ يُنْقِذُنَا.

until my coming in, and I have taken you to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive oil, and honey; and live, and do not die; and do not listen to Hezekiah when he persuades you, saying, YHWH delivers us.

٣٣ 33 هَلْ أَنْقَذَ آلِهَةُ ٱلْأُمَمِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ أَرْضَهُ مِنْ يَدِ مَلِكِ أَشُّورَ؟

Have each of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Asshur?

٣٤ 34 أَيْنَ آلِهَةُ حَمَاةَ وَأَرْفَادَ؟ أَيْنَ آلِهَةُ سَفَرْوَايِمَ وَهَيْنَعَ وَعِوَّا؟ هَلْ أَنْقَذُوا ٱلسَّامِرَةَ مِنْ يَدِي؟

Where [are] the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where [are] the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah, that they have delivered Samaria out of my hand?

٣٥ 35 مَنْ مِنْ كُلِّ آلِهَةِ ٱلْأَرَاضِي أَنْقَذَ أَرْضَهُمْ مِنْ يَدِي، حَتَّى يُنْقِذَ ٱلرَّبُّ أُورُشَلِيمَ مِنْ يَدِي؟».

Who [are they] among all the gods of the lands that have delivered their land out of my hand, that YHWH delivers Jerusalem out of my hand?”

٣٦ 36 فَسَكَتَ ٱلشَّعْبُ وَلَمْ يُجِيبُوهُ بِكَلِمَةٍ، لِأَنَّ أَمْرَ ٱلْمَلِكِ كَانَ قَائِلًا: «لَا تُجِيبُوهُ».

And the people have kept silent, and have not answered him a word, for the command of the king is, saying, “Do not answer him.”

٣٧ 37 فَجَاءَ أَلِيَاقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيَّا ٱلَّذِي عَلَى ٱلْبَيْتِ وَشِبْنَةُ ٱلْكَاتِبُ وَيُوَاخُ بْنُ آسَافَ ٱلْمُسَجِّلُ إِلَى حَزَقِيَّا وَثِيَابُهُمْ مُمَزَّقَةٌ، فَأَخْبَرُوهُ بِكَلَامِ رَبْشَاقَى.

And Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who [is] over the house, comes in, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph, the remembrancer, to Hezekiah, with torn garments, and they declare to him the words of the chief of the butlers.