Jeremiah 41

1 Ishmael was a member of the king’s family. He had been one of King Zedekiah’s important officials. In October of that year, he went to Mizpah with ten other men to [talk with] Gedaliah. While they were eating together,

۱ و در ماه هفتم واقع شد که اسماعیل بن نتنیا ابن الیشاماع که از نسل پادشاهان بود با بعضی از روسای پادشاه و ده نفر همراهش نزد جدلیا ابن اخیقام به مصفه آمدند و آنجا درمصفه با هم نان خوردند.

2 Ishmael and the other ten men jumped up, and with their swords they killed Gedaliah—the man whom the king of Babylon had appointed to be their governor!

۲ و اسماعیل بن نتنیا وآن ده نفر که همراهش بودند برخاسته، جدلیا ابن اخیقام بن شافان را به شمشیر زدند و او را که پادشاه بابل به حکومت زمین نصب کرده بودکشت.

3 Ishmael [and the other men] also killed all the Jews and the soldiers from Babylonia who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah.

۳ و اسماعیل تمامی یهودیانی را که همراه او یعنی با جدلیا در مصفه بودند و کلدانیانی را که در آنجا یافت شدند و مردان جنگی را کشت.

4 The next day, before anyone had found out that Gedaliah had been murdered,

۴ و در روز دوم بعد از آنکه جدلیا را کشته بودو کسی از آن اطلاع نیافته بود،

5 eighty men from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria [cities] came to worship at the temple of Yahweh [in Mizpah]. They had shaved off their beards and torn their clothes and cut themselves [to show that they were mourning]. And they had brought grain offerings and incense [to burn on the altar].

۵ هشتاد نفر با ریش تراشیده و گریبان دریده و بدن خراشیده هدایا وبخور با خود آورده، از شکیم و شیلوه و سامره آمدند تا به خانه خداوند ببرند.

6 Ishmael went out of the city to meet them, crying as he went. When he reached them, he said, “Come [and see what has happened to] Gedaliah!”

۶ و اسماعیل بن نتنیا به استقبال ایشان از مصفه بیرون آمد و دررفتن گریه می‌کرد و چون به ایشان رسید گفت: «نزد جدلیا ابن اخیقام بیایید.»

7 But as soon as they had all entered the town, Ishmael and his men killed [most of] them and threw their corpses into a well.

۷ و هنگامی که ایشان به میان شهر رسیدند اسماعیل بن نتنیا وکسانی که همراهش بودند ایشان را کشته، درحفره انداختند.

8 There were [only] ten of them whom they (spared/did not kill). They were not killed because they promised to Ishmael that [if he allowed them to remain alive, they would bring him] lots of wheat and barley and olive oil and honey that they had hidden.

۸ اما در میان ایشان ده نفر پیداشدند که به اسماعیل گفتند: «ما را مکش زیرا که ما را ذخیره‌ای از گندم و جو و روغن و عسل درصحرا می‌باشد.» پس ایشان را واگذاشته، در میان برادران ایشان نکشت.

9 The well where Ishmael’s men had thrown the corpses of the men whom they had murdered was the deep well that King Asa’s [men] had dug [in order that they would have water in the city] if the army of King Baasha of Israel would surround the city. Ishmael’s men filled that well with corpses.

۹ و حفره‌ای که اسماعیل بدنهای همه کسانی را که به‌سبب جدلیا کشته در آن انداخته بود همان است که آسا پادشاه به‌سبب بعشا پادشاه اسرائیل ساخته بود و اسماعیل بن نتنیا آن را از کشتگان پرکرد.

10 Then Ishmael [and his men] captured the king’s daughters and some of the other people who had been left in Mizpah by Nebuzaradan in order that Gedaliah would take care of them. Ishmael and his men took those people and started back toward the Ammon area.

۱۰ پس اسماعیل تمامی بقیه قوم را که درمصفه بودند با دختران پادشاه و جمیع کسانی که در مصفه باقی‌مانده بودند که نبوزردان رئیس جلادان به جدلیا ابن اخیقام سپرده بود، اسیر ساخت و اسماعیل بن نتنیا ایشان را اسیر ساخته، می‌رفت تا نزد بنی عمون بگذرد.

11 But Johanan and all the other leaders of the Israeli soldiers who had not surrendered to the army of Babylonia heard about what Ishmael [and his men] had done.

۱۱ اما چون یوحانان بن قاریح و تمامی سرداران لشکری که همراهش بودند از تمامی فتنه‌ای که اسماعیل بن نتنیا کرده بود خبر یافتند،

12 So they [immediately] went with all their men to stop them. They caught up with them at the large pool near Gibeon [city].

۱۲ آنگاه جمیع کسان خود را برداشتند و به قصد مقاتله با اسماعیل بن نتنیا روانه شده، او را نزد دریاچه بزرگ که درجبعون است یافتند.

13 When all the people whom Ishmael and his men had captured saw Johanan and the soldiers who were with him, they [shouted] joyfully.

۱۳ و چون جمیع کسانی که بااسماعیل بودند یوحانان بن قاریح و تمامی سرداران لشکر را که همراهش بودند دیدندخوشحال شدند.

14 So all those who had been captured in Mizpah escaped, and they started to help Johanan.

۱۴ و تمامی کسانی که اسماعیل از مصفه به اسیری می‌برد روتافته، برگشتند و نزدیوحانان بن قاریح آمدند.

15 But Ishmael and eight of his men escaped and fled to the Ammon area.

۱۵ اما اسماعیل بن نتنیابا هشت نفر از دست یوحانان فرار کرد و نزدبنی عمون رفت.

16 Then Johanan and the men who were with him [gathered together] all the people whom they had rescued at Gibeon. They included soldiers and women and children and some of the king’s palace officials. They were all people whom Ishmael [and his men] had captured after they had killed Gedaliah.

۱۶ و یوحانان بن قاریح با همه سرداران لشکرکه همراهش بودند، تمامی بقیه قومی را که ازدست اسماعیل بن نتنیا از مصفه بعد از کشته شدن جدلیا ابن اخیقام خلاصی داده بود بگرفت، یعنی مردان دلیر جنگی و زنان و اطفال و خواجه‌سرایان را که ایشان را در جبعون خلاصی داده بود؛

17 They took them all to Geruth-Kimham [village] near Bethlehem. And they all prepared to go to Egypt.

۱۷ و ایشان رفته، در جیروت کمهام که نزدبیت لحم است منزل گرفتند تا بروند و به مصرداخل شوند،

18 They were worried about what the soldiers of Babylonia [would do to them when they found out] that Ishmael had killed Gedaliah, who had been appointed by the King of Babylonia to be their governor.

۱۸ به‌سبب کلدانیان زیرا که از ایشان می‌ترسیدند چونکه اسماعیل بن نتنیا جدلیا ابن اخیقام را که پادشاه بابل او را حاکم زمین قرار داده بود کشته بود.