< 2 Chronicles 12 >

1 Now when Rehoboam's position as king had been made certain, and he was strong, he gave up the law of the Lord, and all Israel with him.
ORA quando il regno di Roboamo fu stabilito e fortificato, egli, insieme con tutto Israele, lasciò la Legge del Signore.
2 Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem, because of their sin against the Lord,
Laonde l'anno quinto del re Roboamo, Sisac, re di Egitto, salì contro a Gerusalemme (perciocchè essi aveano misfatto contro al Signore),
3 With twelve hundred war-carriages and sixty thousand horsemen: and the people who came with him out of Egypt were more than might be numbered: Lubim and Sukkiim and Ethiopians.
con mille dugento carri, e con sessantamila cavalieri, e popolo senza fine, ch'era venuto con lui di Egitto, Libii, Succhei, ed Etiopi;
4 And he took the walled towns of Judah, and came as far as Jerusalem.
e prese le città forti di Giuda, e venne fino in Gerusalemme.
5 Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the chiefs of Judah, who had come together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, The Lord has said, Because you have given me up, I have given you up into the hands of Shishak.
Allora il profeta Semaia venne a Roboamo, ed a' capi di Giuda, i quali si erano raccolti in Gerusalemme, d'innanzi a Sisac, e disse loro: Così ha detto il Signore: Voi mi avete abbandonato, ed io altresì vi ho abbandonati in mano di Sisac.
6 Then the chiefs of Israel and the king made themselves low and said, The Lord is upright.
Ed i capi d'Israele, e il re, si umiliarono, e dissero: Il Signore [è] giusto.
7 And the Lord, seeing that they had made themselves low, said to Shemaiah, They have made themselves low: I will not send destruction on them, but in a short time I will give them salvation, and will not let loose my wrath on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
E il Signore vide che si erano umiliati. E la parola del Signore fu [indirizzata] a Semaia, dicendo: Essi si sono umiliati; io non li distruggerò, ma fra poco darò loro salvezza; e l'ira mia non si verserà sopra Gerusalemme per mano di Sisac.
8 But still they will become his servants, so that they may see how different my yoke is from the yoke of the kingdoms of the lands.
Nondimeno essi gli saranno servi; e conosceranno [la differenza che vi è] tra il servirmi, e il servire a' regni della terra.
9 So Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem and took away all the stored wealth of the house of the Lord and the king's house: he took everything away, and with the rest the gold body-covers which Solomon had made.
Sisac adunque, re di Egitto, salì contro a Gerusalemme, e prese i tesori della Casa del Signore, ed i tesori della casa del re; egli prese ogni cosa; prese ancora gli scudi d'oro che Salomone avea fatti.
10 And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.
E il re Roboamo fece degli scudi di rame, in luogo di quelli, e li rimise in man de' capitani de' sergenti, che facevano la guardia alla porta della casa reale.
11 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
E quando il re entrava nella Casa del Signore, i sergenti venivano, e li levavano; e poi li riportavano nella loggia de' sergenti.
12 And when he made himself low, the wrath of the Lord was turned back from him, and complete destruction did not come on him, for there was still some good in Judah.
Così, perchè egli si umiliò, l'ira del Signore si stolse da lui, ed egli non [volle] fare una intiera distruzione; ed anche certo in Giuda vi erano di buone cose.
13 So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.
Il re Roboamo adunque si fortificò in Gerusalemme, e regnò; perciocchè egli era d'età di quarantun'anno, quando cominciò a regnare, e regnò diciassette anni in Gerusalemme, città la quale il Signore avea eletta d'infra tutte le tribù d'Israele, per mettervi il suo Nome. E il nome di sua madre [era] Naama Ammonita.
14 And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.
Ed egli fece ciò che è male; perciocchè non dispose l'animo suo a ricercare il Signore.
15 Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not recorded in the words of Shemaiah the prophet and Iddo the seer? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
Ora, quant'è a' fatti di Roboamo, primi ed ultimi, non [sono] essi scritti nel libro del profeta Semaia, e fra le genealogie d'Iddo veggente? come ancora le guerre [che furono] del continuo fra Roboamo e Geroboamo?
16 And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.
E Roboamo giacque co' suoi padri, e fu seppellito nella Città di Davide; ed Abia, suo figliuolo, regnò in luogo suo.

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