Anden Krønikebog 11
1 Der Roboam kom til Jerusalem, da samlede han Judas Hus og Benjamin, hundrede og firsindstyve Tusinde udvalgte Krigsmænd, at stride imod Israel for at føre Riget tilbage til Roboam.
When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he gathered 180,000 of the best soldiers from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. He wanted them to fight against [the northern tribes of] Israel [and defeat them], in order that he could rule [all the tribes of] the kingdom again.
2 Men Herrens Ord skete til Semaja, den Guds Mand, og sagde:
But Yahweh spoke to the prophet Shemaiah and said this to him:
3 Tal til Roboam, Salomos Søn, Judas Konge, og til al Israel, som er i Juda og Benjamin, og sig:
“Go and tell this to [Solomon’s son] Rehoboam, the king of Judah, and to all the Israeli people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin:
4 Saa sagde Herren: I skulle ikke drage op og ej stride imod eders Brødre; vender tilbage, hver til sit Hus, thi denne Handel er sket af mig; og de adløde Herrens Ord og vendte tilbage og droge ikke imod Jeroboam.
‘Yahweh says that you must not go to fight against [the people of Israel; they are] your distant relatives. All of you must go home. What has happened is what Yahweh wanted to happen.’” [So Shemaiah went and told that to them, ] and they all heeded what Yahweh had commanded them to do, and they did not attack Jeroboam [and his soldiers].
5 Og Roboam boede i Jerusalem og byggede Stæder til Befæstning i Juda.
Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and his workers built walls around several of the cities and towns in Judah to protect them [against enemy attacks].
6 Og han byggede Bethlehem og Etam og Thekoa
In [the area that belonged to] the tribes of Judah and Benjamin they built walls around Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
7 og Bethzur og Soko og Adullam
Beth-Zur, Soco, Adullam,
8 og Gath og Maresa og Sif
Gath, Mareshah,
9 og Adora'im og Lakis og Aseka
Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,
10 og Zora og Ajalon og Hebron, som vare i Juda og i Benjamin, saa de bleve faste Stæder.
Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron.
11 Og han gjorde de faste Stæder stærke og lagde Befalingsmænd i dem og Forraad af Spise og Olie og Vin
He also appointed an army commander in each of those cities and towns, and gave them supplies of food, olive oil, and wine [to keep in storage].
12 og Skjolde og Spyd i alle Stæderne, hvilke han befæstede saare meget; og Juda og Benjamin vare hans.
He put shields and spears in all the cities and made them well-protected. So he continued to rule the tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
13 Og Præsterne og Leviterne, som vare udi al Israel, de gik over til ham fra alt deres Landemærke.
The priests and other descendants of Levi throughout Israel supported Rehoboam.
14 Thi Leviterne forlode deres Marker og deres Ejendom og droge til Juda og til Jerusalem; thi Jeroboam og hans Sønner forkastede dem og lode dem ikke gøre Præstetjeneste for Herren.
The descendants of Levi [who lived outside the territory of Judah and Benjamin] abandoned their property and their pastureland, and they came to Jerusalem and [to other places in] Judah, because Jeroboam and his sons would not allow them to do the work of priests of Yahweh.
15 (Men han beskikkede sig Præster til Højene og til Skovtroldene og til de Kalve, som han opstillede.)
Instead, Jeroboam appointed the priests that he wanted to work [at the altars he commanded to be built] on the hilltops, [to offer sacrifices to] the idols that he commanded to be made [that resembled] goats and calves.
16 Og efter hine fulgte af alle Israels Stammer de, som gave deres Hjerte til at søge Herren Israels Gud; de kom til Jerusalem for at ofre til Herren, deres Fædres Gud.
And people from every tribe in Israel who wanted to worship Yahweh, the God to whom the Israelis belonged, went with the descendants of Levi to Jerusalem to live there and to offer sacrifices to Yahweh, the God whom their ancestors [worshiped].
17 Og de styrkede Judas Rige og gjorde Roboam, Salomos Søn, mægtig i tre Aar; thi de vandrede i Davids og i Salomos Vej i tre Aar.
They caused the kingdom of Judah to be strong, and for three years they were happy that Solomon’s son Rehoboam was the king. During that time they conducted their lives [righteously] as David and Solomon had done previously.
18 Og Roboam tog sig en Hustru foruden Mahalath, Jerimoths, Davids Søns, Datter, nemlig Abihail, en Datter af Eliab, Isajs Søn.
Rehoboam married Mahalath. She was the daughter of David’s son Jerimoth, and her mother was Abihail, the daughter of Eliab and granddaughter of Jesse.
19 Og hun fødte ham Sønner: Je'us og Semarja og Saham.
Rehoboam and Mahalath had three sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.
20 Og efter hende tog han Maaka, Absaloms Datter; og hun fødte ham Abia og Athaj og Sisa og Selomith.
Later Rehoboam married Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, and they had four sons: Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
21 Men Roboam elskede Maaka, Absaloms Datter, mere end alle sine Hustruer og Medhustruer; thi han tog atten Hustruer og tresindstyve Medhustruer; og han avlede otte og tyre Sønner og tresindstyve Døtre.
Rehoboam loved Maacah more than he loved any other of his wives and slave wives. Altogether he had 18 wives and 60 slave wives, and 28 sons and 60 daughters.
22 Og Roboam satte Abia, Maakas Søn, til den ypperste, til en Fyrste iblandt hans Brødre; thi han tænkte at gøre ham til Konge.
Rehoboam appointed his son Abijah to be the leader of his [older and younger] brothers, because he wanted to appoint Abijah to be the next king.
23 Og han handlede forstandig og fordelte alle sine Sønner i alle Judas og Benjamins Lande, i alle faste Stæder, og gav dem rigeligt Underhold; og han begærede mange Hustruer for dem.
He very wisely sent some of his other sons to other cities in the areas of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and to all the other cities that had walls around them. He gave them plenty of supplies and many wives.
