2 Chronicles 21
1 Then Jehoshaphat died, and was buried where his ancestors were buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then his son Jehoram became the king [of Judah].
Και εκοιμήθη ο Ιωσαφάτ μετά των πατέρων αυτού και ετάφη μετά των πατέρων αυτού εν πόλει Δαβίδ· και εβασίλευσεν αντ' αυτού Ιωράμ ο υιός αυτού.
2 His [younger] brothers were Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah.
Και είχεν αδελφούς, υιούς του Ιωσαφάτ, τον Αζαρίαν, και Ιεχιήλ και Ζαχαρίαν και Αζαρίαν και Μιχαήλ και Σεφατίαν· πάντες ούτοι ήσαν υιοί του Ιωσαφάτ βασιλέως του Ισραήλ.
3 Before Jehoshaphat died, he gave them gifts of silver and gold and other valuable things. He also appointed them to rule various cities in Judah that had walls around them. But he appointed Jehoram to be the king of Judah, because Jehoram was his oldest son.
Και ο πατήρ αυτών έδωκεν εις αυτούς δώρα πολλά αργυρίου και χρυσίου και πολυτίμων πραγμάτων, μετά πόλεων οχυρών εν Ιούδα· την βασιλείαν όμως έδωκεν εις τον Ιωράμ, επειδή ήτο ο πρωτότοκος.
4 After Jehoram was completely in control of his father’s kingdom, he had all of his [younger] brothers executed, along with some of the leaders of the nation.
Ότε δε ο Ιωράμ υψώθη εις την βασιλείαν του πατρός αυτού και εκραταιώθη, εθανάτωσε πάντας τους αδελφούς αυτού εν ρομφαία και τινάς έτι εκ των αρχόντων του Ισραήλ.
5 Jehoram was 32 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years.
Τριάκοντα δύο ετών ηλικίας ήτο ο Ιωράμ ότε εβασίλευσε, και εβασίλευσεν οκτώ έτη εν Ιερουσαλήμ.
6 But he did many of the [evil] things that the kings of Israel had done. He did many things that Yahweh considers to be evil, things that the family of Ahab had done, because he married one of Ahab’s daughters.
Και περιεπάτησεν εν τη οδώ των βασιλέων του Ισραήλ, καθώς έκαμεν ο οίκος του Αχαάβ· διότι θυγάτηρ του Αχαάβ ήτο η γυνή αυτού· και έπραξε πονηρά ενώπιον Κυρίου.
7 However, because of the agreement that Yahweh had made with King David, Yahweh did not want to get rid of the descendants of David. He had promised that David’s descendants would always be the ones who ruled Judah.
Αλλ' ο Κύριος δεν ηθέλησε να εξολοθρεύση τον οίκον του Δαβίδ, διά την διαθήκην την οποίαν έκαμε προς τον Δαβίδ, και διότι είπε να δώση λύχνον εις αυτόν και εις τους υιούς αυτού πάντοτε.
8 While Jehoram was ruling, the people of [the] Edom [region] rebelled against [the king of] Judah and appointed their own king.
Εν ταις ημέραις αυτού απεστάτησεν ο Εδώμ από της υποταγής του Ιούδα, και κατέστησαν βασιλέα εφ' εαυτούς.
9 So Jehoram and his officers and his men in chariots went to Edom. There, the army of Edom surrounded them. Jehoram escaped during the night.
Και διήλθεν ο Ιωράμ μετά των αρχόντων αυτού και πάσαι αι άμαξαι μετ' αυτού· και σηκωθείς διά νυκτός, επάταξε τους Ιδουμαίους τους περικυκλούντας αυτόν και τους άρχοντας των αμαξών.
10 But the king of Judah was never able to regain control of Edom, and Edom is still not controlled by Judah. [The people in] Libnah [city between Judah and Philistia] also rebelled against Judah. Those things happened because Jehoram turned away from [obeying] Yahweh, the God whom his ancestors [belonged to].
Ούτως απεστάτησεν ο Εδώμ από της υποταγής του Ιούδα έως της ημέρας ταύτης. Τότε κατά τον αυτόν καιρόν απεστάτησε και η Λιβνά από της υποταγής αυτού, επειδή εγκατέλιπε Κύριον τον Θεόν των πατέρων αυτού.
11 On the hilltops in Judah he had also built shrines [to worship idols], and had caused the people of Judah to stray away from Yahweh by worshiping foreign gods.
Αυτός ωκοδόμησεν έτι υψηλούς τόπους επί τα όρη του Ιούδα, και έκαμε τους κατοίκους της Ιερουσαλήμ να πορνεύωσι και απεπλάνησε τον Ιούδαν.
12 One day, Jehoram received a letter from the prophet Elijah. Elijah had written this in the letter: “This is what Yahweh, the God whom your ancestor [King] David [worshiped], says: 'You have not done things that please me like your father Jehoshaphat did or what King Asa did.
Και ήλθε προς αυτόν έγγραφον παρά του Ηλία του προφήτου, λέγον, Ούτω λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός του Δαβίδ του πατρός σου· Επειδή δεν περιεπάτησας εν ταις οδοίς Ιωσαφάτ του πατρός σου και εν ταις οδοίς του Ασά βασιλέως του Ιούδα,
13 Instead, you have continually done the [evil things] that the kings of Israel have done. You have encouraged the people in Jerusalem and other places in Judah to stop worshiping Yahweh, like the descendants of Ahab did. You have also murdered your own brothers, who were more righteous men than you are.
αλλά περιεπάτησας εν τη οδώ των βασιλέων του Ισραήλ, και έκαμες τον Ιούδαν και τους κατοίκους της Ιερουσαλήμ να πορνεύσωσι κατά τας πορνείας του οίκου του Αχαάβ, έτι δε εθανάτωσας τους αδελφούς σου, τον οίκον του πατρός σου, τους καλητέρους σου,
14 So now Yahweh is about to very severely punish the people in your kingdom and even your own children and your wives and everything that you own.
Ιδού, ο Κύριος θέλει πατάξει με πληγήν μεγάλην τον λαόν σου και τα τέκνα σου και τας γυναίκάς σου και πάντα τα υπάρχοντά σου·
15 And you yourself will have an intestinal disease that will continue to become worse, and you will suffer from it until you die.'”
και συ θέλεις κτυπηθή με πολλάς αρρωστίας, με αρρωστίαν των εντοσθίων σου, εωσού εξέλθωσι τα εντόσθιά σου εκ της αρρωστίας από ημέρας εις ημέραν.
16 Then Yahweh caused some men from the Philistia people-group and some Arabs who lived near the coast [of the Mediterranean Sea], where people from Ethiopia had settled, to become angry with Jehoram.
Ο Κύριος έτι διήγειρεν εναντίον του Ιωράμ το πνεύμα των Φιλισταίων και των Αράβων, των πλησιοχώρων των Αιθιόπων·
17 Their army invaded Judah and took away [from Jerusalem] all the valuable things that they found in the king’s palace, and even his sons and wives. His youngest son, Ahaziah, was the only one of his sons whom they did not take away.
και ανέβησαν κατά του Ιούδα και εφώρμησαν επ' αυτόν και διήρπασαν πάντα τα υπάρχοντα τα ευρεθέντα εν τω οίκω του βασιλέως, και τους υιούς αυτού έτι και τας γυναίκας αυτού· ώστε δεν έμεινεν εις αυτόν άλλος υιός, ειμή Ιωάχαζ, ο νεώτερος των υιών αυτού.
18 After that happened, Yahweh caused Jehoram to be afflicted with an intestinal disease that no one could cure.
Μετά δε πάντα ταύτα επάταξεν αυτόν ο Κύριος εις τα εντόσθια αυτού με αρρωστίαν ανίατον·
19 About two years later, while he was in great pain, he died because of that disease. The people of Judah had made bonfires to honor his ancestors when they died, but they did not make a bonfire for Jehoram.
και προϊόντος του καιρού, μετά παρέλευσιν δύο ετών, εξήλθον τα εντόσθια αυτού, εκ της αρρωστίας αυτού, και απέθανε με πόνους σκληρούς. Ο δε λαός αυτού δεν έκαμεν εις αυτόν καύσιν, κατά την καύσιν των πατέρων αυτού.
20 Jehoram was 32 years old when he became the king, and he ruled in Jerusalem for eight years. No one was sorry when he died. His corpse was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, but he was not buried where the other kings [of Judah] had been buried.
Τριάκοντα δύο ετών ηλικίας ήτο ότε εβασίλευσεν· εβασίλευσε δε εν Ιερουσαλήμ οκτώ έτη, και απήλθε χωρίς να ήναι ποθητός· και έθαψαν αυτόν εν πόλει Δαβίδ, πλην ουχί εν τοις τάφοις των βασιλέων.
