2 Ndị Eze 18
1 Nʼafọ nke atọ nke ọchịchị Hoshea nwa Elaa eze Izrel ka Hezekaya nwa Ehaz eze Juda malitere ọchịchị nke ya.
NOW it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.
2 Ọ gbara iri afọ abụọ na ise mgbe ọ malitere ị bụ eze. Ọ chịrị iri afọ abụọ na itoolu na Jerusalem. Aha nne ya bụ Abija, ada Zekaraya.
Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
3 O mere ihe ziri ezi nʼanya Onyenwe anyị, dịka nna nna ya Devid.
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.
4 O wepụrụ ebe niile dị elu, kurisie ogidi nsọ niile, gbutukwa ogidi Ashera niile. O tipịakwara agwọ bronz ahụ Mosis mere, nʼihi na ruo nʼoge ahụ, ụmụ Izrel na-esure aja nsure ọkụ na-esi isi ụtọ nye ya. (A kpọrọ ya Nehushtan.)
He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.
5 Hezekaya tụkwasịrị Onyenwe anyị, Chineke Izrel obi ya. Nʼezie, o nwekwaghị onye ọzọ dị ka ya nʼetiti ndị eze Juda niile, ndị bu ya ụzọ chịa, na ndị so ya.
He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.
6 Ọ gbasoro Onyenwe anyị nʼụzọ niile. O sitekwaghị nʼụzọ Onyenwe anyị wezuga onwe ya. O debere ihe niile Onyenwe anyị nyere Mosis nʼiwu.
For he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.
7 Onyenwe anyị nọnyeere ya nʼebe ọbụla ọ gara, ihe niile o mere gaara ya nke ọma. O nupuru isi jụ ịnọkwa nʼokpuru eze ndị Asịrịa, o fekwaghị ya ofufe.
And the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.
8 O tigburu ndị Filistia nʼala ha niile ruo na Gaza, na obodo dị ya gburugburu. Ọ lara obodo ahụ niile nʼiyi, obodo ukwu niile e wusiri ike na obodo nta niile a na-ewusighị ike.
He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
9 Nʼafọ nke anọ nke ọchịchị Hezekaya, nke bụkwa afọ nke asaa nke ọchịchị Hoshea nwa Elaa, bụ eze Izrel, Shalmanesa, eze Asịrịa gbagoro imegide Sameria, nọchibido ya gburugburu.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
10 Mgbe afọ atọ gasịrị, nʼafọ nke isii nke ọchịchị Hezekaya, na afọ nke itoolu nke ọchịchị Hoshea, bụ eze Izrel, ndị agha Asịrịa dọtara Sameria nʼagha.
And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
11 Ọ bụ nʼoge ahụ ka eze Asịrịa bupụrụ ndị Izrel niile bulaa ha Asịrịa nʼime obodo Hala, na Gozan nʼakụkụ iyi ukwu Hoboa, na nʼobodo ndị Midia.
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:
12 Nke a mere nʼihi na ha jụrụ ige ntị nʼolu Onyenwe anyị bụ Chineke ha, jụkwa ime ihe ọ chọrọ ka ha mee. Ha edebeghị ọgbụgba ndụ ya na iwu niile Mosis onyeozi Onyenwe anyị nyere ha. Ha jụrụ ige ntị nʼiwu ndị a, maọbụ debe ha.
Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
13 Nʼafọ nke iri na anọ nke ọchịchị eze Hezekaya, Senakerib bụ eze Asịrịa, busoro obodo Juda niile e wusiri ike agha, merikwaa ha.
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
14 Mgbe ahụ, Hezekaya chọrọ ụzọ ọ ga-esi mee udo, zie ozi zigara eze Asịrịa nʼobodo Lakish sị ya, “Emehiela m, biko, site nʼala m pụọ. Aga m akwụ gị ihe ọbụla ị chọrọ nʼaka m.” Eze Asịrịa sitere nʼaka Hezekaya eze Juda nara narị talenti ọlaọcha atọ, na iri talenti ọlaedo atọ.
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 Hezekaya chịịrị ọlaọcha niile ọ chọtara nʼụlọnsọ ukwu Onyenwe anyị, na akụ niile dị nʼụlọeze, nye ya eze Asịrịa.
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.
16 Nʼoge ahụ, Hezekaya bụ eze Juda, nyakapụtachara ọlaedo niile o ji techie ibo na ibo ọnụ ụzọ ụlọnsọ ukwu Onyenwe anyị, chịrị ihe ndị a niile nye eze Asịrịa.
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
17 Eze Asịrịa sitere na Lakish zipụ ọchịagha onye ọkwa ya kasị ukwuu, onyeisi ndị na-eje ozi na ọchịagha ya na usuu ndị agha ka ha jekwuru Hezekaya na Jerusalem. Ndị agha a bịaruru Jerusalem kwụsị nʼakụkụ olulu warawara e gwuru ebe Ọdọ mmiri dị elu si nʼasọfe, nʼụzọ e si aga obosara ala ndị na-asụ akwa.
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
18 Mgbe ha kpọrọ eze oku ka ọ bịa, Eliakịm nwa Hilkaya, onye nlekọta ụlọeze, na Shebna, ode akwụkwọ eze, na Joa nwa Asaf, onye ndekọ akụkọ ihe mere, pụrụ jekwuru ha.
And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.
19 Ọchịagha ahụ sịrị ha, “Gwanụ Hezekaya: “‘Otu a ka eze ukwu ahụ, bụ eze Asịrịa na-ekwu, Ọ bụ na gịnị ka ntụkwasị obi gị dabere?
And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
20 Ị na-ekwu na i nwere ndụmọdụ na ike ibu agha, maọbụ naanị egbe ọnụ ka ị na-agba. Ọ bụ onye ka ị na-atụkwasị obi mere i ji enupu isi nʼokpuru m?
Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words, ) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
21 Lee, amatara m na ị na-atụkwasị obi nʼIjipt, mkpanaka achara ahụ gbajiri agbaji, nke na-adụwa aka onye ọbụla na-adabere na ya. Otu a ka Fero, eze Ijipt dị nye ndị niile na-atụkwasị ya obi.
Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
22 Ma ọ bụrụ na unu asị m, “Anyị na-atụkwasị Onyenwe anyị bụ Chineke anyị obi.” Ọ bụghị ya ka Hezekaya wezugara ebe ya niile dị elu na ebe ịchụ aja ya niile, na-asị Juda na Jerusalem, “Unu aghaghị ịkpọ isiala nʼebe ịchụ aja dị nʼime Jerusalem?”
But if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
23 “‘Ma ugbu a, bịa kwee nna m ukwu, bụ eze Asịrịa nkwa. Aga m enye gị puku ịnyịnya abụọ ma ọ bụrụ na i nwere ike ịchọta ndị ga-agba ha.
Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
24 Ị ga-esi aṅaa jụ otu onyeisi nke dịkarịsịrị nta nʼime ndịisi ọrụ onyenwe m, na-agbanyeghịkwa na i na-atụkwasị obi nʼIjipt maka inweta ụgbọ agha na ndị na-agba ịnyịnya?
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
25 Tinyere nke a, abịara m ibuso ala a agha na ibibi ya ma enweghị okwu sitere na Chineke bịa? Ọ bụ Onyenwe anyị ya onwe ya gwara m ka m bilie megide obodo a, lakwaa ya nʼiyi.’”
Am I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
26 Mgbe ahụ, Eliakịm nwa Hilkaya, Shebna na Joa sịrị ọchịagha ahụ, “Biko, gwa ndị ohu gị okwu nʼasụsụ Aramaik, ebe ọ bụ na anyị na-aghọta ya. Agwala anyị okwu nʼasụsụ Hibru, ebe ndị nọ nʼelu mgbidi ga-anụ.”
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
27 Ma ọchịagha ahụ zaghachiri, “Ọ bụ nʼihi naanị nna unu ukwu na nye unu onwe unu ka nna m ukwu ji zite m, ka m kwuo ihe ndị a? Ọ bụghị nʼihi ndị mmadụ ahụ na-anọdụ nʼelu mgbidi, ndị, dịka unu, ha ga-eso rie nsị ha nyụrụ, ṅụọkwa mamịrị ha nyụrụ?”
But Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
28 Mgbe ahụ, ọchịagha ahụ guzoro were oke olu kwuo nʼasụsụ Hibru, sị, “Nụrụnụ okwu eze ukwu ahụ, bụ eze Asịrịa.
Then Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:
29 Nke a bụ ihe eze sịrị, unu ekwela ka Hezekaya duhie unu. Ọ pụghị ịzọpụta unu site nʼaka m.
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
30 Unu ekwela ka Hezekaya mee ka unu tụkwasị Onyenwe anyị obi. Mgbe ọ na-asị, ‘Nʼezie, Onyenwe anyị aghaghị ịnapụta anyị, a gaghị enyefe obodo a nʼaka eze Asịrịa.’
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
31 “Unu aṅakwala Hezekaya ntị. Ihe a ka eze Asịrịa kwuru: Pụkwutenụ m, bịanụ ka mụ na unu mee udo. Mgbe ahụ, onye ọbụla nʼime unu ga-eri mkpụrụ si nʼubi vaịnị ya na nke si nʼosisi fiig ya, ṅụọkwa mmiri nke si nʼihe icheta mmiri ya:
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:
32 ruo mgbe m ga-abịa duru unu gaa nʼala dịka nke unu, bụ ala mkpụrụ ọka na nke mmanya ọhụrụ, ala achịcha na ubi vaịnị, ala mmanụ aṅụ na osisi oliv jupụtara nʼime ya. Họrọnụ ndụ ka unu ghara ịnwụ. “Unu egela Hezekaya ntị, nʼihi na ọ bụ nrafu ka ọ na-arafu unu mgbe ọ na-asị, ‘Onyenwe anyị ga-anapụta anyị.’
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.
33 O nwere chi mba ọbụla nke napụtara ha site nʼaka eze Asịrịa?
Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
34 Olee ebe ka chi ndị Hamat na Apad nọ? Olee ebe ka chi ndị Sefavaim, Hena na Iva nọkwa? Ha anapụtala Sameria site nʼaka m?
Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?
35 Olee chi nʼime chi mba ndị a niile bụ nke zọpụtarala ala ya site nʼaka m? Unu si aṅaa chee na Onyenwe anyị pụrụ ịzọpụta Jerusalem site nʼaka m?”
Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?
36 Ma ndị ahụ niile gbara nkịtị, ha ekwughị ihe ọbụla, nʼihi na eze nyere ha iwu sị, “Unu azaghachila ya.”
But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
37 Mgbe ahụ, Eliakịm nwa Hilkaya, onye na-elekọta ụlọeze, na Shebna ode akwụkwọ eze, na Joa nwa Asaf ode akwụkwọ, ha yi uwe ha dọwara adọwa, bịakwute Hezekaya gwa ya ihe niile onyeisi agha ahụ kwuru.
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.
