I Regum 22
1 Transierunt igitur tres anni absque bello inter Syriam et Israel.
Now for three years there was no war between Aram and Israel.
2 In anno autem tertio, descendit Iosaphat rex Iuda ad regem Israel.
And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.
3 (Dixitque rex Israel ad servos suos: Ignoratis quod nostra sit Ramoth Galaad, et negligimus tollere eam de manu regis Syriae?)
And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.
4 Et ait ad Iosaphat: Veniesne mecum ad praeliandum in Ramoth Galaad?
And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
5 Dixitque Iosaphat ad regem Israel: Sicut ego sum, ita et tu: populus meus, et populus tuus unum sunt: et equites mei, equites tui. Dixitque Iosaphat ad regem Israel: Quaere, oro te, hodie sermonem Domini.
Then Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, Let us now get directions from the Lord.
6 Congregavit ergo rex Israel prophetas, quadringentos circiter viros, et ait ad eos: Ire debeo in Ramoth Galaad ad bellandum, an quiescere? Qui responderunt: Ascende, et dabit eam Dominus in manu regis.
So the king of Israel got all the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
7 Dixit autem Iosaphat: Non est hic propheta Domini quispiam, ut interrogemus per eum?
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no other prophet of the Lord here from whom we may get directions?
8 Et ait rex Israel ad Iosaphat: Remansit vir unus, per quem possumus interrogare Dominum: sed ego odi eum, quia non prophetat mihi bonum, sed malum, Michaeas filius Iemla. Cui Iosaphat ait: Ne loquaris ita rex.
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, Micaiah, son of Imlah; but I have no love for him, for he is a prophet of evil to me and not of good. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
9 Vocavit ergo rex Israel eunuchum quendam, et dixit ei: Festina adducere Michaeam filium Iemla.
Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with Micaiah, the son of Imlah.
10 Rex autem Israel, et Iosaphat rex Iuda sedebant unusquisque in solio suo vestiti cultu regio, in area iuxta ostium portae Samariae, et universi prophetae prophetabant in conspectu eorum.
Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, were seated on their seats of authority, dressed in their robes, by the doorway into Samaria; and all the prophets were acting as prophets before them.
11 Fecit quoque sibi Sedecias filius Chanaana cornua ferrea, et ait: Haec dicit Dominus: His ventilabis Syriam, donec deleas eam.
And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself horns of iron and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.
12 Omnesque prophetae similiter prophetabant, dicentes: Ascende in Ramoth Galaad, et vade prospere, et tradet Dominus in manus regis.
And all the prophets said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well for you, for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
13 Nuncius vero, qui ierat ut vocaret Michaeam, locutus est ad eum, dicens: Ecce sermones prophetarum ore uno regi bona praedicunt: sit ergo sermo tuus similis eorum, et loquere bona.
Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.
14 Cui Michaeas ait: Vivit Dominus, quia quodcumque dixerit mihi Dominus, hoc loquar.
And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.
15 Venit itaque ad regem, et ait illi rex: Michaea, ire debemus in Ramoth Galaad ad praeliandum, an cessare? Cui ille respondit: Ascende, et vade prospere, et tradet eum Dominus in manus regis.
When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.
16 Dixit autem rex ad eum: Iterum atque iterum adiuro te, ut non loquaris mihi nisi quod verum est, in nomine Domini.
Then the king said to him, Have I not, again and again, put you on your oath to say nothing to me but what is true in the name of the Lord?
17 Et ille ait: Vidi cunctum Israel dispersum in montibus, quasi oves non habentes pastorem. et ait Dominus: Non habent isti dominum: revertatur unusquisque in domum suam in pace.
Then he said, I saw all Israel wandering on the mountains like sheep without a keeper; and the Lord said, These have no master: let them go back, every man to his house in peace.
18 (Dixit ergo rex Israel ad Iosaphat: Numquid non dixi tibi, quia non prophetat mihi bonum, sed semper malum?)
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good but of evil?
19 Ille vero addens, ait: Propterea audi sermonem Domini: Vidi Dominum sedentem super solium suum, et omnem exercitum caeli assistentem ei a dextris et a sinistris:
And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.
20 et ait Dominus: Quis decipiet Achab regem Israel, ut ascendat, et cadat in Ramoth Galaad? Et dixit unus verba huiuscemodi, et alius aliter.
And the Lord said, How may Ahab be tricked into going up to Ramoth-gilead to his death? And one said one thing and one another.
21 Egressus est autem spiritus, et stetit coram Domino, et ait: Ego decipiam illum. Cui locutus est Dominus: In quo?
Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick.
22 Et ille ait: Egrediar, et ero spiritus mendax in ore omnium prophetarum eius. Et dixit Dominus: Decipies, et praevalebis: egredere, et fac ita.
And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
23 Nunc igitur ecce dedit Dominus spiritum mendacii in ore omnium prophetarum tuorum, qui hic sunt, et Dominus locutus est contra te malum.
And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.
24 Accessit autem Sedecias filius Chanaana, et percussit Michaeam in maxillam, et dixit: Me ne ergo dimisit Spiritus Domini, et locutus est tibi?
Then Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, came near and gave Micaiah a blow on the side of the face, saying, Where is the spirit of the Lord whose word is in you?
25 Et ait Michaeas: Visurus es in die illa, quando ingredieris cubiculum, intra cubiculum ut abscondaris.
And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.
26 Et ait rex Israel: Tollite Michaeam, et maneat apud Amon principem civitatis, et apud Ioas filium Amelech,
And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;
27 et dicite eis: Haec dicit rex: Mittite virum istum in carcerem, et sustentate eum pane tribulationis, et aqua angustiae, donec revertar in pace.
And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
28 Dixitque Michaeas: Si reversus fueris in pace, non est locutus in me Dominus. Et ait: Audite populi omnes.
And Micaiah said, If you come back at all in peace, the Lord has not sent his word by me.
29 Ascendit itaque rex Israel, et Iosaphat rex Iuda in Ramoth Galaad.
So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.
30 Dixit itaque rex Israel ad Iosaphat: Sume arma, et ingredere praelium, et induere vestibus tuis. porro rex Israel mutavit habitum suum, et ingressus est bellum.
And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I will make a change in my clothing, so that I do not seem to be the king, and will go into the fight; but do you put on your robes. So the king of Israel made a change in his dress and went into the fight.
31 Rex autem Syriae praeceperat principibus curruum triginta duobus, dicens: Non pugnabitis contra minorem, et maiorem quempiam, nisi contra regem Israel, solum.
Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying, Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.
32 Cum ergo vidissent principes curruum Iosaphat, suspicati sunt quod ipse esset rex Israel, et impetu facto pugnabant contra eum: et exclamavit Iosaphat.
So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.
33 Intellexeruntque principes curruum quod non esset rex Israel, et cessaverunt ab eo.
And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.
34 Vir autem quidam tetendit arcum, in incertum sagittam dirigens, et casu percussit regem Israel inter pulmonem et stomachum. At ille dixit aurigae suo: Verte manum tuam, et eiice me de exercitu, quia graviter vulneratus sum.
And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.
35 Commissum est ergo praelium in die illa, et rex Israel stabat in curru suo contra Syros, et mortuus est vespere: fluebat autem sanguis plagae in sinum currus,
But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.
36 et praeco insonuit in universo exercitu antequam sol occumberet, dicens: Unusquisque revertatur in civitatem, et in terram suam.
And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.
37 Mortuus est autem rex, et perlatus est in Samariam: sepelieruntque regem in Samaria,
And they came to Samaria, and put the king's body to rest in Samaria.
38 et laverunt currum eius in piscina Samariae, et linxerunt canes sanguinem eius, et habenas laverunt, iuxta verbum Domini quod locutus fuerat.
And the war-carriage was washed by the pool of Samaria, which was the bathing-place of the loose women, and the dogs were drinking his blood there, as the Lord had said.
39 Reliqua autem sermonum Achab, et universa quae fecit, et domus eburnea, quam aedificavit, cunctarumque urbium quas extruxit, nonne haec scripta sunt in Libro sermonum dierum regum Israel?
Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
40 Dormivit ergo Achab cum patribus suis, et regnavit Ochozias filius eius pro eo.
So Ahab was put to rest with his fathers; and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.
41 Iosaphat vero filius Asa regnare coeperat super Iudam anno quarto Achab regis Israel.
And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.
42 Triginta quinque annorum erat cum regnare coepisset, et vigintiquinque annis regnavit in Ierusalem: nomen matris eius Azuba filia Salai.
Jehoshaphat was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he was king for twenty-five years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.
43 Et ambulavit in omni via Asa patris sui, et non declinavit ex ea: fecitque quod rectum erat in conspectu Domini. Verumtamen excelsa non abstulit: adhuc enim populus sacrificabat, et adolebat incensum in excelsis.
He did as Asa his father had done, not turning away from it, but doing what was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.
44 Pacemque habuit Iosaphat cum rege Israel.
And Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.
45 Reliqua autem verborum Iosaphat, et opera eius, quae gessit, et praelia, nonne haec scripta sunt in Libro verborum dierum regum Iuda?
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
46 Sed et reliquias effeminatorum, qui remanserant in diebus Asa patris eius, abstulit de terra.
He put an end to the rest of those who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, all those who were still in the land in the time of his father Asa.
47 Nec erat tunc rex constitutus in Edom.
At that time there was no king in Edom;
48 Rex vero Iosaphat fecerat classes in mari, quae navigarent in Ophir propter aurum: et ire non potuerunt, quia confractae sunt in Asiongaber.
And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber.
49 Tunc ait Ochozias filius Achab ad Iosaphat: Vadant servi mei cum servis tuis in navibus. Et noluit Iosaphat.
Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, Let my men go with yours in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not let them.
50 Dormivitque Iosaphat cum patribus suis, et sepultus est cum eis in Civitate David patris sui: regnavitque Ioram filius eius pro eo.
Then Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David his father; and Jehoram his son became king in his place.
51 Ochozias autem filius Achab regnare coeperat super Israel in Samaria, anno septimodecimo Iosaphat regis Iuda, regnavitque super Israel duobus annis.
Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.
52 Et fecit malum in conspectu Domini, et ambulavit in via patris sui et matris suae, et in via Ieroboam filii Nabat, qui peccare fecit Israel.
He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, going in the ways of his father and his mother, and in the ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil.
53 Servivit quoque Baal, et adoravit eum, et irritavit Dominum Deum Israel, iuxta omnia quae fecerat pater eius.
He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.
