2 Ljetopisa 14
1 Potom Abija počinu kraj svojih otaca. Sahraniše ga u Davidovu gradu; na njegovo se mjesto zakralji sin mu Asa. Za njegovih je dana zemlja bila mirna deset godina.
So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.
2 Asa je činio što je dobro i pravo u očima Jahve, njegova Boga.
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
3 Uklonio je tuđinske žrtvenike i uzvišice, polomio stupove i razbio ašere.
For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
4 Naredio je Judejcima da traže Jahvu, Boga svojih otaca, da se drže zakona i zapovijedi.
And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
5 Uklonio je iz svih judejskih gradova uzvišice i sunčane stupove, a kraljevstvo je bilo mirno za njegova vremena.
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
6 Sagradio je tvrde gradove u Judeji, jer je zemlja bila mirna. Nitko se nije zaratio na nj onih godina, jer mu je Jahve dao mir.
He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.
7 Zato je Asa rekao Judejcima: “Da pogradimo ove gradove i da ih opašemo zidom i kulama, vratima i prijevornicama; još je zemlja pred nama naša, jer smo tražili Jahvu, svoga Boga; tražili smo ga, i on nam je dao mir odasvud uokolo!” Tako su gradili i bili sretni.
He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.
8 Asa je imao vojske trista tisuća ljudi između Judejaca koji su nosili štit i koplje, a od Benjaminova plemena dvjesta i osamdeset tisuća koji su nosili štit i zapinjali luk. Svi su bili hrabri junaci.
And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.
9 Izašao je na njih Etiopljanin Zerah sa tisuću tisuća vojnika i tri stotine bojnih kola i došao do Mareše.
And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.
10 Asa je izašao preda nj; svrstali su se u bojni red u Sefatskoj dolini kod Mareše.
And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.
11 Asa zavapi k Jahvi, Bogu svome: “O Jahve, tebi je ništa pomoći silnome ili nejakome! Pomozi nam, o Jahve, Bože naš, jer se na te oslanjamo i u tvoje smo ime izišli na ovo mnoštvo! Jahve, ti si Bog naš, ne daj snažnu čovjeku protiv sebe!”
And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
12 Jahve razbi Etiopljane pred Asom i pred Judejcima te Etiopljani pobjegoše.
So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.
13 Asa ih je s narodom koji bijaše s njim potjerao sve do Gerara. Etiopljani su popadali, tako da nijedan nije ostao živ jer ih je satro Jahve i njegove čete; i one su odnijele vrlo velik plijen.
And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.
14 Osvojile su sve gradove oko Gerara jer je Jahvin strah došao na njih; oplijenile su sve te gradove, jer je u njima bilo mnogo plijena.
And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.
15 Poharale su i šatore za stoku i zaplijenile mnoštvo sitne stoke i deva; a onda su se vratile u Jeruzalem.
And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.
