2 Chronicles 14
1 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.
| וישכב אביה עם אבתיו ויקברו אתו בעיר דויד וימלך אסא בנו תחתיו בימיו שקטה הארץ עשר שנים׃ |
2 And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
| ויעש אסא הטוב והישר בעיני יהוה אלהיו׃ |
3 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;
| ויסר את מזבחות הנכר והבמות וישבר את המצבות ויגדע את האשרים׃ |
4 And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
| ויאמר ליהודה לדרוש את יהוה אלהי אבותיהם ולעשות התורה והמצוה׃ |
5 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.
| ויסר מכל ערי יהודה את הבמות ואת החמנים ותשקט הממלכה לפניו׃ |
6 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.
| ויבן ערי מצורה ביהודה כי שקטה הארץ ואין עמו מלחמה בשנים האלה כי הניח יהוה לו׃ |
7 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.
| ויאמר ליהודה נבנה את הערים האלה ונסב חומה ומגדלים דלתים ובריחים עודנו הארץ לפנינו כי דרשנו את יהוה אלהינו דרשנו וינח לנו מסביב ויבנו ויצליחו׃ |
8 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.
| ויהי לאסא חיל נשא צנה ורמח מיהודה שלש מאות אלף ומבנימן נשאי מגן ודרכי קשת מאתים ושמונים אלף כל אלה גבורי חיל׃ |
9 And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.
| ויצא אליהם זרח הכושי בחיל אלף אלפים ומרכבות שלש מאות ויבא עד מרשה׃ |
10 And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.
| ויצא אסא לפניו ויערכו מלחמה בגיא צפתה למרשה׃ |
11 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.
| ויקרא אסא אל יהוה אלהיו ויאמר יהוה אין עמך לעזור בין רב לאין כח עזרנו יהוה אלהינו כי עליך נשענו ובשמך באנו על ההמון הזה יהוה אלהינו אתה אל יעצר עמך אנוש׃ |
12 So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.
| ויגף יהוה את הכושים לפני אסא ולפני יהודה וינסו הכושים׃ |
13 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.
| וירדפם אסא והעם אשר עמו עד לגרר ויפל מכושים לאין להם מחיה כי נשברו לפני יהוה ולפני מחנהו וישאו שלל הרבה מאד׃ |
14 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.
| ויכו את כל הערים סביבות גרר כי היה פחד יהוה עליהם ויבזו את כל הערים כי בזה רבה היתה בהם׃ |
15 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.
| וגם אהלי מקנה הכו וישבו צאן לרב וגמלים וישבו ירושלם׃ |
