< 2 Chronicles 25 >

1 Amaziah was 25 years old when he became the king [of Judah], and he ruled from Jerusalem for 29 years. His mother was Jehoaddin; she was from Jerusalem.
اَمَصیا بیست و پنج ساله بود که پادشاه شد و بیست و نه سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. مادرش یهوعدان اورشلیمی بود.
2 Amaziah did many things that pleased Yahweh, but he did not do them enthusiastically.
او هر چه در نظر خداوند پسندیده بود انجام می‌داد، اما نه با تمام دل و جان.
3 As soon as he was in complete control of his kingdom, he caused to be executed the officials who had murdered his father.
وقتی اَمَصیا زمام امور را در دست گرفت افرادی را که پدرش را کشته بودند، از بین برد،
4 But he did not command their sons to be executed; he obeyed what was in the laws that Moses had written. In those laws Yahweh had commanded, “People must not be executed because of [what] their children [have done], and children must not be executed for [what] their parents [have done]. People must be executed only for the sins that they themselves have committed.”
ولی فرزندانشان را نکشت زیرا خداوند در تورات موسی امر فرموده بود که نه پدران برای گناه پسران کشته شوند و نه پسران به سبب گناه پدران، بلکه هر کس برای گناه خودش مجازات شود.
5 Amaziah summoned the men of [the tribes of] Judah and Benjamin to come to Jerusalem, and there he put them in groups, each clan in a group by themselves. Then he appointed officers to command each group. Some officers commanded 100 men and some commanded 1,000 men. They counted the men who were at least 20 years old; altogether there were 300,000 men. They were all men who were prepared to be in the army, and able to [fight well, ] using spears and shields.
اَمَصیا مردان خاندانهای یهودا و بنیامین را احضار کرد و از آنها سپاهی تشکیل داده، آنان را به چند دسته تقسیم کرد و برای هر دسته فرماندهی تعیین نمود. سپاه او از سیصد هزار مرد بیست ساله و بالاتر تشکیل شده بود که همه تعلیم دیده بودند و در به کار بردن نیزه و سپر، بسیار مهارت داشتند.
6 Amaziah also hired 100,000 capable soldiers from Israel and paid almost four tons of silver for them.
علاوه بر این عده، با پرداخت سه هزار و چهارصد کیلوگرم نقره، صد هزار سرباز دیگر از اسرائیل اجیر کرد.
7 But a prophet came to him and said, “Your majesty, you must not allow those soldiers from Israel to march with your soldiers, because Yahweh does not help the people of the tribe of Ephraim or from [anywhere else in] Israel.
اما مرد خدایی نزد اَمَصیا آمده، گفت: «ای پادشاه، سربازان اسرائیلی را اجیر نکن، زیرا خداوند با آنها نیست. او این افرایمی‌ها را کمک نخواهد کرد.
8 Even if your soldiers go and fight courageously in battles, God will cause your enemies to defeat you; do not forget that God has the power to help armies or to cause them to be defeated.”
اگر بگذاری آنها همراه سپاهیان تو به جنگ بروند، هر چند هم خوب بجنگید ولی عاقبت شکست خواهید خورد. زیرا خداست که می‌تواند انسان را پیروز سازد یا شکست دهد.»
9 Amaziah asked that prophet, “If I do that, what about the huge amount of silver that I paid to hire those soldiers from Israel?” The prophet replied, “Yahweh is able to pay you back more money than you paid [to hire those soldiers].”
اَمَصیا گفت: «پس پولی که بابت اجیر کردن آنها پرداخته‌ام چه می‌شود؟» آن مرد خدا جواب داد: «خداوند قادر است بیش از این به تو بدهد.»
10 So Amaziah told those soldiers from Israel to return home. They left to go home, but they were very angry with the king of Judah [for not allowing them to stay and fight].
پس اَمَصیا سربازان اجیر شدهٔ اسرائیلی را مرخص کرد تا به خانه‌هایشان در افرایم بازگردند. این موضوع خشم آنها را برانگیخت و آنها در شدت غضب به خانه‌های خود بازگشتند.
11 Then Amaziah became brave, and he led his army to the Salt Valley. There they killed 10,000 men from the Edom people-group.
آنگاه اَمَصیا با شجاعت سپاه خود را به «درهٔ نمک» برد و در آنجا ده هزار نفر از ادومی‌ها را کشت.
12 The army of Judah also captured 10,000 others, and took them to the top of a cliff and threw them all down over the cliff, with the result that their corpses were all smashed to pieces.
سپاه اَمَصیا ده هزار نفر دیگر را گرفته، به بالای پرتگاهی بردند و آنها را از آنجا به زیر انداختند که بر روی تخته سنگهای پایین افتاده، متلاشی شدند.
13 While that was happening, the soldiers from Israel whom Amaziah had sent home after not allowing them to fight along with his soldiers, raided cities and towns in Judea, from Samaria [city] to Beth-Horon [town]. They killed 3,000 people and took away a great amount of valuable things.
در این ضمن، سربازان اسرائیلی که اَمَصیا آنها را به وطنشان بازگردانده بود، به شهرهای یهودا که بین بیت‌حورون و سامره قرار داشتند، هجوم بردند و سه هزار نفر را کشتند و غنیمت بسیار با خود بردند.
14 When Amaziah returned [to Jerusalem] after his army had slaughtered the soldiers from Edom, he brought the idols that were worshiped by the people of Edom. He set them up to be his own gods. Then he bowed down to [worship] them and offered sacrifices to them.
اَمَصیای پادشاه هنگام مراجعت از کشتار ادومی‌ها، بتهایی را که از دشمن گرفته و با خود آورده بود به عنوان خدایان بر پا داشت و آنها را سجده نمود و برای آنها بخور سوزانید.
15 Because of that, Yahweh was very angry with Amaziah. He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why do you worship these foreign gods that were not even able to save their own people when your army attacked them?”
این عمل، خداوند را به خشم آورد و او یک نبی نزد اَمَصیا فرستاد. آن نبی به اَمَصیا گفت: «چرا خدایانی را پرستش کردی که حتی نتوانستند قوم خود را از دست تو برهانند؟»
16 While he was still speaking, the king said to him, “We certainly did not appoint you to be one of my advisors. So stop [talking]! If you say anything more, [I will tell my soldiers to] kill you!” So the prophet said, “I know that God has determined to get rid of you, because you have [begun to] worship idols, and have not heeded my advice.” Then the prophet said nothing more.
پادشاه جواب داد: «مگر از تو نظر خواسته‌ام؟ ساکت شو! والا دستور می‌دهم تو را بکشند!» آن نبی این اخطار را به پادشاه داد و از نزد او رفت: «حال می‌دانم که خدا تصمیم گرفته تو را از میان بردارد، زیرا این بتها را سجده نموده‌ای و نصیحت مرا نپذیرفتی.»
17 Some time later Amaziah, the king of Judah, consulted his advisors. Then he sent a message to Jehoash, the king of Israel. He wrote, “Come here and let’s talk together.”
اَمَصیا، پادشاه یهودا با مشورت مشاوران خود به یهوآش، پادشاه اسرائیل (پسر یهوآحاز، نوهٔ ییهو) اعلان جنگ داد.
18 But Jehoash replied to King Amaziah, “One time a thistle growing [in the mountains] in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar tree saying, ‘Let your daughter marry my son.’ But a wild animal in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle under its feet.
اما یهوآش پادشاه اسرائیل با این مَثَل جواب اَمَصیا پادشاه یهودا را داد: «روزی در لبنان، یک بوتهٔ خار به یک درخت سرو آزاد گفت:”دخترت را به پسر من به زنی بده.“ولی درست در همین وقت حیوانی وحشی از آنجا عبور کرد و آن خار را پایمال نمود.
19 [The meaning of what I am saying is that] you are saying to yourself that your army has defeated the army of Edom, so you have become very proud. But you should stay at your home. It would not be good for you to cause trouble, which would result in you and your kingdom of Judah being destroyed.”
تو از فتح ادوم مغرور شده‌ای و به خود می‌بالی، اما به تو نصیحت می‌کنم که در سرزمینت بمانی و با من درگیر نشوی. چرا می‌خواهی کاری کنی که به زیان تو و مردم یهودا تمام شود؟»
20 But Amaziah refused to heed Jehoash’s message. That happened because God wanted Jehoash’s army to defeat them, because they were worshiping the gods of Edom.
ولی اَمَصیا به حرفهای او گوش نداد زیرا خدا ترتیبی داده بود که او را به سبب پرستش بتهای ادوم به دست دشمن نابود کند.
21 So Jehoash’s army attacked. Their two armies faced each other at Beth-Shemesh [city] in Judah.
پس یهوآش، پادشاه اسرائیل سپاه خود را آمادهٔ جنگ با امصیا پادشاه یهودا کرد. جنگ در بیت‌شمس، یکی از شهرهای یهودا، درگرفت.
22 The army of Judah was badly defeated by the army of Israel, and all the soldiers of Judah fled to their homes.
سپاه یهودا شکست خورد و سربازان به شهرهای خود فرار کردند.
23 King Jehoash’s army also captured King Amaziah there. Then he brought Amaziah to Jerusalem, and his soldiers tore down the wall [that was around the city], from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate. That was a section that was about 600 feet long.
یهوآش (پادشاه اسرائیل)، اَمَصیا پادشاهِ مغلوبِ یهودا را اسیر کرده، به اورشلیم برد. یهوآش دستور داد که حصار اورشلیم را از دروازهٔ افرایم تا دروازهٔ زاویه که طولش حدود دویست متر بود در هم بکوبند.
24 His soldiers also carried away the gold and silver and other valuable furnishings from the temple which the descendants of Obed-Edom had previously been guarding. They also took away the valuable things in the palace, and they took to Samaria some prisoners whom they had captured.
او عده‌ای را گروگان گرفت و تمام طلا و نقره و لوازم خانهٔ خدا را که نگهداری آنها به عهدهٔ عوبید ادوم بود و نیز موجودی خزانه‌های کاخ سلطنتی را برداشته، به سامره بازگشت.
25 King Jehoash of Israel died, and King Amaziah of Judah lived for 15 years after that.
اَمَصیا پادشاه یهودا بعد از مرگ یهوآش پانزده سال دیگر هم زندگی کرد.
26 An account of all the other things that Amaziah did while he was the king [of Judah] is written in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah and Israel’.
شرح بقیهٔ رویدادهای دوران سلطنت اَمَصیا، از ابتدا تا انتها، در کتاب «تاریخ پادشاهان یهودا و اسرائیل» نوشته شده است.
27 From the time that Amaziah started to disobey Yahweh, some men in Jerusalem planned to kill him. He was able to escape to Lachish [city], but those who wanted to kill him sent another group of people to Lachish and killed him there.
اَمَصیا از پیروی خداوند برگشت و در اورشلیم علیه او توطئه چیدند و او به لاکیش گریخت، ولی دشمنانش او را تعقیب کرده در آنجا او را کشتند؛
28 They put his corpse on a horse and brought it back to Jerusalem and buried it where his ancestors [had been buried] in the part of Jerusalem called ‘The City of David’.
سپس جنازه‌اش را روی اسب گذاشته، به اورشلیم آوردند و او را در آرامگاه سلطنتی دفن کردند.

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