1 Kings 14

1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam became sick.

١ فِي ذَلِكَ الْوَقْتِ مَرِضَ أَبِيَّا بْنُ يَرُبْعَامَ،

2 Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you will not be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.

٢ فَقَالَ يَرُبْعَامُ لِزَوْجَتِهِ: «تَنَكَّرِي حَتَّى لَا يَكْتَشِفَ أَحَدٌ أَنَّكِ زَوْجَتِي، وَامْضِي إِلَى شِيلُوهَ حَيْثُ يُقِيمُ أَخِيَّا الَّذِي أَنْبَأَنِي أَنَّنِي سَأَمْلِكُ عَلَى هَذَا الشَّعْبِ،

3 Take with you ten loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will become of the child.”

٣ وَخُذِي لَهُ مَعَكِ عَشْرَةَ أَرْغِفَةٍ وَكَعْكاً وَجَرَّةَ عَسَلٍ، وَانْطَلِقِي إِلَيْهِ وَهُوَ يُخْبِرُكِ بِمَصِيرِ الْغُلامِ».

4 Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

٤ فَنَفَّذَتْ زَوْجَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ مَا طَلَبَهُ مِنْهَا، وَوَصَلَتْ إِلَى بَيْتِ أَخِيَّا فِي شِيلُوهَ، وَكَانَ أَخِيَّا قَدْ طَعَنَ فِي السِّنِّ، وَكَلَّ بَصَرُهُ.

5 The LORD said to Ahijah, “Behold, Jeroboam’s wife is coming to inquire of you concerning her son, for he is sick. Tell her such and such; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

٥ وَقَالَ الرَّبُّ لأَخِيَّا: «هَا هِيَ زَوْجَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ مُقْبِلَةٌ لِتَسْأَلَكَ عَنْ مَصِيرِ ابْنِهَا الْمَرِيضِ، فَأَجِبْهَا بِمَا أَقُولُهُ لَكَ، لأَنَّهَا سَتَدْخُلُ إِلَيْكَ مُتَنَكِّرَةً».

6 So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.

٦ فَلَمَّا سَمِعَ أَخِيَّا وَقْعَ خَطْوَاتِهَا وَهِيَ دَاخِلَةٌ مِنَ الْبَابِ قَالَ: «ادْخُلِي يَا زَوْجَةَ يَرُبْعَامَ. لِمَاذَا تَتَنَكَّرِينَ؟ إِنَّنِي أَحْمِلُ إِلَيْكِ أَخْبَاراً سَيِّئَةً.

7 Go, tell Jeroboam, ‘The LORD, the God of Israel, says: “Because I exalted you from among the people, and made you prince over my people Israel,

٧ اذْهَبِي وَبَلِّغِي يَرُبْعَامَ قَضَاءَ الرَّبِّ إِلَهِ إِسْرَائِيلَ: لَقَدْ رَفَعْتُكَ مِنْ وَسَطِ الشَّعْبِ، ونَصَّبْتُكَ رَئِيساً عَلَى شَعْبِي إِسْرَائِيلَ،

8 and tore the kingdom away from David’s house, and gave it to you; and yet you have not been as my servant David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in my eyes,

٨ وَمَزَّقْتُ الْمَمْلَكَةَ عَنْ بَيْتِ دَاوُدَ وَوَلَّيْتُكَ عَلَيْهَا، وَلَكِنَّكَ لَمْ تَكُنْ كَعَبْدِي دَاوُدَ الَّذِي حَفِظَ وَصَايَايَ وَتَبِعَنِي مِنْ كُلِّ قَلْبِهِ لِيَصْنَعَ مَا هُوَ صَالِحٌ فِي عَيْنَيَّ.

9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back,

٩ لَقَدِ ارْتَكَبْتَ مِنَ السَّيِّئَاتِ مَا فَاقَ جَمِيعَ الَّذِينَ كَانُوا قَبْلَكَ، فَصَنَعْتَ لِنَفْسِكَ آلِهَةً أُخْرَى، أَصْنَاماً مَسْبُوكَةً، لِتُثِيرَ غَيْظِي، وَقَدْ طَرَحْتَنِي خَلْفَ ظَهْرِكَ.

10 therefore, behold, I will bring evil on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam everyone who urinates on a wall, he who is shut up and he who is left at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of Jeroboam, as a man sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

١٠ لِذَلِكَ هَا أَنَا مُزْمِعٌ أَنْ أَبْتَلِيَ بَيْتَكَ بِشَرٍّ عَظِيمٍ، وَأُبِيدَ كُلَّ ذَكَرٍ مِنْ نَسْلِكَ، عَبْداً كَانَ أَمْ حُرّاً، وَأُفْنِيَ بَيْتَكَ كَمَا تُفْنِي النَّارُ الرَّوْثَ الْجَافَّ،

11 The dogs will eat he who belongs to Jeroboam who dies in the city; and the birds of the sky will eat he who dies in the field, for the LORD has spoken it.”’

١١ فَتَأْكُلُ الْكِلابُ كُلَّ مَنْ يَمُوتُ لَكَ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ، وَتَنْهَشُ طُيُورُ السَّمَاءِ كُلَّ مَنْ يَمُوتُ لَكَ فِي الْحَقْلِ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ تَكَلَّمَ».

12 Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.

١٢ وَأَضَافَ أَخِيَّا: «أَمَّا أَنْتِ فَانْهَضِي وَانْطَلِقِي إِلَى بَيْتِكِ، وَحَالَمَا تَدْخُلِينَ الْمَدِينَةَ يَمُوتُ الْوَلَدُ،

13 All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

١٣ فَيَنُوحُ عَلَيْهِ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ وَيَدْفِنُونَهُ، لأَنَّ هَذَا وَحْدَهُ مِنْ نَسْلِ يَرُبْعَامَ يُوَارَى فِي قَبْرٍ، لأَنَّ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ قَدْ وَجَدَ فِيهِ، مِنْ دُونِ سَائِرِ بَيْتِ يَرُبْعَامَ، شَيْئاً صَالِحاً.

14 Moreover the LORD will raise up a king for himself over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam. This is the day! What? Even now.

١٤ وَيُقِيمُ الرَّبُّ لِنَفْسِهِ مَلِكاً عَلَى إِسْرَائِيلَ لِيُبِيدَ بَيْتَ يَرُبْعَامَ الْيَوْمَ.

15 For the LORD will strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.

١٥ ثُمَّ يَعْصِفُ الرَّبُّ بِإِسْرَائِيلَ، فَيَهُزُّهُمْ كَاهْتِزَازِ الْقَصَبِ فِي الْمَاءِ، وَيَسْتَأْصِلُهُمْ مِنْ هَذِهِ الأَرْضِ الْخَيِّرَةِ الَّتِي وَهَبَهَا لِآبَائِهِمْ، وَيُشَتِّتُهُمْ إِلَى مَا وَرَاءِ النَّهْرِ لأَنَّهُمْ أَقَامُوا لأَنْفُسِهِمْ أَصْنَاماً وَأَثَارُوا غَيْظَ الرَّبِّ.

16 He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he has sinned, and with which he has made Israel to sin.”

١٦ وَيَنْبِذُ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ خَطَايَا يَرُبْعَامَ الَّتِي ارْتَكَبَهَا وَاسْتَغْوَى إِسْرَائِيلَ مَعَهُ فَأَخْطَأُوا».

17 Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.

١٧ فَعَادَتْ زَوْجَةُ يَرُبْعَامَ إِلَى تِرْصَةَ. وَمَا إِنْ وَصَلَتْ إِلَى عَتَبَةِ بَابِ الْبَيْتِ حَتَّى مَاتَ الْغُلامُ،

18 All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

١٨ فَدَفَنَهُ الإِسْرَائِيلِيُّونَ وَنَاحُوا عَلَيْهِ، تَمَاماً حَسَبَ كَلامِ الرَّبِّ الَّذِي نَطَقَ بِهِ عَلَى لِسَانِ عَبْدِهِ أَخِيَّا النَّبِيِّ.

19 The rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

١٩ أَمَّا بَقِيَّةُ أَعْمَالِ يَرُبْعَامَ وَكَيْفَ حَارَبَ وَكَيْفَ مَلَكَ، فَهِيَ مُدَوَّنَةٌ فِي كِتَابِ أَخْبَارِ أَيَّامِ مُلُوكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

20 The days which Jeroboam reigned were twenty two years; then he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his place.

٢٠ وَدَامَ مُلْكُ يَرُبْعَامَ اثْنَتَيْنِ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً، ثُمَّ مَاتَ وَدُفِنَ مَعَ آبَائِهِ، وَخَلَفَهُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ ابْنُهُ نَادَابُ.

21 Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

٢١ أَمَّا رَحُبْعَامُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ فَقَدْ مَلَكَ فِي يَهُوذَا وَكَانَ عُمْرُهُ إِحْدَى وَأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً حِينَ مَلَكَ، وَاسْتَمَرَّ حُكْمُهُ سَبْعَ عَشْرَةَ سَنَةً فِي أُورُشَلِيمَ، الْمَدِينَةِ الَّتِي اخْتَارَهَا الرَّبُّ مِنْ بَيْنِ جَمِيعِ مُدُنِ إِسْرَائِيلَ لِيَضَعَ اسْمَهُ عَلَيْهَا، وَكَانَ اسْمُ أُمِّهِ نِعْمَةَ الْعَمُّونِيَّةَ.

22 Judah did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

٢٢ وَارْتَكَبَ شَعْبُ يَهُوذَا الشَّرَّ فِي عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ، فَاسْتَثَارُوا غَيْظَهُ كَمَا لَمْ تَسْتَثِرْهُ خَطَايَا آبَائِهِمِ الَّتِي ارْتَكَبُوهَا.

23 For they also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

٢٣ وَأَقَامُوا هُمْ أَيْضاً لأَنْفُسِهِمْ مُرْتَفَعَاتٍ وَأَنْصَاباً وَتَمَاثِيلَ عَلَى كُلِّ تَلٍّ مُرْتَفِعٍ، وَتَحْتَ كُلِّ شَجَرةٍ خَضْرَاءَ.

24 There were also sodomites in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

٢٤ وَتَكَاثَرَ فِي الأَرْضِ الْعَاهِرُونَ مِنْ ذَوِي الشُّذُوذِ الْجِنْسِيِّ، وَاقْتَرَفُوا كُلَّ مُوبِقَاتِ الأُمَمِ الَّتِي طَرَدَهَا الرَّبُّ مِنْ أَمَامِ بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ.

25 In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

٢٥ وَفِي السَّنَةِ الْخَامِسَةِ لِلْمَلِكِ رَحُبْعَامَ هَاجَمَ شِيشَقُ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ أُورُشَلِيمَ.

26 and he took away the treasures of the LORD’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

٢٦ وَاسْتَوْلَى عَلَى خَزَائِنِ بَيْتِ الرَّبِّ وَخَزَائِنِ قَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ، وَسَلَبَ كُلَّ مَا فِيهَا، لاسِيَّمَا الأَتْرَاسُ الذَّهَبِيَّةُ الَّتِي عَمِلَهَا سُلَيْمَانُ.

27 King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept the door of the king’s house.

٢٧ فَصَنَعَ الْمَلِكُ رَحُبْعَامُ عِوَضاً عَنْهَا أَتْرَاساً نُحَاسِيَّةً، سَلَّمَهَا لِرُؤَسَاءِ حَرَسِ بَابِ قَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ.

28 It was so, that as often as the king went into the LORD’s house, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard room.

٢٨ فَكَانَ كُلَّمَا دَخَلَ الْمَلِكُ إِلَى هَيْكَلِ الرَّبِّ يَحْمِلُهَا الْحُرَّاسُ أَمَامَهُ، ثُمَّ يُعِيدُونَهَا إِلَى غُرْفَةِ الْحَرَسِ.

29 Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are not they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

٢٩ أَمَّا بَقِيَّةُ أَحْدَاثِ حَيَاةِ رَحُبْعَامَ وَكُلُّ مَا قَامَ بِهِ مِنْ أَعْمَالٍ، أَلَيْسَتْ هِي مُدَوَّنَةً فِي كِتَابِ أَخْبَارِ أَيَّامِ مُلُوكِ يَهُوذَا؟

30 There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

٣٠ وَظَلَّتْ رَحَى الْحَرْبِ دَائِرَةً بَيْنَ رَحُبْعَامَ وَيَرُبْعَامَ طَوَالَ حَيَاةِ رَحُبْعَامَ.

31 Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess. Abijam his son reigned in his place.

٣١ ثُمَّ مَاتَ رَحُبْعَامُ وَدُفِنَ مَعَ آبَائِهِ فِي مَدِينَةِ دَاوُدَ، وَاسْمُ أُمِّهِ نِعْمَةُ الْعَمُّونِيَّةُ وَخَلَفَهُ ابْنُهُ أَبِيَامُ عَلَى الْعَرْشِ.