Ii Regum 16
1 Anno decimo septimo Phacee filii Romeliae regnavit Achaz filius Ioatham regis Iuda.
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
2 Viginti annorum erat Achaz cum regnare coepisset, et sedecim annis regnavit in Ierusalem: non fecit quod erat placitum in conspectu Domini Dei sui, sicut David pater eius.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do that which was right in the LORD his God’s eyes, like David his father.
3 sed ambulavit in via regum Israel: insuper et filium suum consecravit, transferens per ignem secundum idola Gentium, quae dissipavit Dominus coram filiis Israel.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
4 Immolabat quoque victimas, et adolebat incensum in excelsis, et in collibus, et sub omni ligno frondoso.
He sacrificed and burned incense in the high places, on the hills, and under every green tree.
5 Tunc ascendit Rasin rex Syriae, et Phacee filius Romeliae rex Israel in Ierusalem ad praeliandum: cumque obsiderent Achaz, non valuerunt superare eum.
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
6 In tempore illo restituit Rasin rex Syriae, Ailam Syriae, et eiecit Iudaeos de Aila: et Idumaei venerunt in Ailam, et habitaverunt ibi usque in diem hanc.
At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there to this day.
7 Misit autem Achaz nuncios ad Theglathphalasar regem Assyriorum, dicens: Servus tuus, et filius tuus ego sum: ascende, et salvum me fac de manu regis Syriae, et de manu regis Israel, qui consurrexerunt adversum me.
So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria and out of the hand of the king of Israel, who rise up against me.”
8 Et cum collegisset argentum et aurum, quod inveniri potuit in domo Domini, et in thesauris regis, misit regi Assyriorum munera.
Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the LORD’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
9 Qui et acquievit voluntati eius: ascendit enim rex Assyriorum in Damascum, et vastavit eam: et transtulit habitatores eius Cyrenen, Rasin autem interfecit.
The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
10 Perrexitque rex Achaz in occursum Theglathphalasar regis Assyriorum in Damascum. cumque vidisset altare Damasci, misit rex Achaz ad Uriam sacerdotem exemplar eius, et similitudinem iuxta omne opus eius.
King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.
11 Extruxitque Urias sacerdos altare iuxta omnia, quae praeceperat rex Achaz, de Damasco, ita fecit sacerdos Urias, donec veniret rex Achaz de Damasco.
Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of King Ahaz from Damascus.
12 Cumque venisset rex, vidit altare, et veneratus est illud: ascenditque et immolavit holocausta, et sacrificium suum,
When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.
13 et libavit libamina, et fudit sanguinem pacificorum, quae obtulerat super altare.
He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
14 Porro altare aereum, quod erat coram Domino, transtulit de facie templi, et de loco altaris, et de loco templi Domini: posuitque illud ex latere altaris ad Aquilonem.
The bronze altar, which was before the LORD, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the LORD’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.
15 Praecepit quoque rex Achaz Uriae sacerdoti, dicens: Super altare maius offer holocaustum matutinum, et sacrificium vespertinum, et holocaustum regis, et sacrificium eius, et holocaustum universi populi terrae, et sacrificia eorum, et libamina eorum: et omnem sanguinem holocausti, et universum sanguinem victimae super illud effundes: altare vero aereum erit paratum ad voluntatem meam.
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
16 Fecit igitur Urias sacerdos iuxta omnia, quae praeceperat rex Achaz.
Urijah the priest did so, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
17 Tulit autem rex Achaz caelatas bases, et luterem, qui erat desuper: et mare deposuit de bobus aereis, qui sustentabant illud, et posuit super pavimentum stratum lapide.
King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.
18 Musach quoque sabbati, quod aedificaverat in templo: et ingressum regis exterius convertit in templum Domini propter regem Assyriorum.
He removed the covered way for the Sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king’s outer entrance to the LORD’s house, because of the king of Assyria.
19 Reliqua autem verborum Achaz, quae fecit, nonne haec scripta sunt in Libro sermonum dierum regum Iuda?
Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, are not they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
20 Dormivitque Achaz cum patribus suis, et sepultus est cum eis in Civitate David, et regnavit Ezechias filius eius pro eo.
Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
