اَلْمُلُوكِ ٱلثَّانِي 18

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

Now it happened in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

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

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

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

He did that which was right in the eyes of YHWH, according to all that David his father had done.

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 removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

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

He trusted in YHWH, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

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

For he joined with YHWH; he did not depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which YHWH commanded Moses.

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

YHWH was with him; wherever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and did not serve him.

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

He struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen 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.

It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

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

At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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

The king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the 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 they did not obey the voice of YHWH their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of YHWH commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

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

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took 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.

Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, "I have offended; return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear." The king of Assyria appointed to 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.

Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of YHWH, and in the treasures of the king's house.

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 cut off the gold from the doors of YHWH's temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

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.

The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderers' Field.

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

When they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

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

Rabshakeh said to them, "Say now to Hezekiah, 'Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, "What confidence is this in which you trust?

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

Do you think that empty words are strategy and power for war? Now on whom do you trust, 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, look, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust 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؟

But if you tell me, 'We trust in YHWH our God;' isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, 'You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?'

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

Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

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

How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots 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 destroy it.'"'"

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

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, "Please speak to your servants in the Aramaic language; for we understand it. Do not speak with us in the Jews' language, in the hearing 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؟»

But Rabshakeh said to them, "Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit 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.

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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

Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of my hand.

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

Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in YHWH, saying, "YHWH will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

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 says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat of his vine, and everyone of his fig tree, and everyone drink the waters of his own cistern;

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 I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "YHWH will deliver us."

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

Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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

Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they 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 countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that YHWH should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?'"

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

But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, "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.

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.