Ii Regum 25
1 Factum est autem anno nono regni eius, mense decimo, decima die mensis, venit Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis, ipse et omnis exercitus eius in Ierusalem, et circumdederunt eam: et extruxerunt in circuitu eius munitiones.
And it comes to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has come, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encamps against it, and builds a surrounding fortification against it.
2 Et clausa est civitas atque vallata usque ad undecimum annum regis Sedechiae,
And the city enters into siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
3 nona die mensis: praevaluitque fames in civitate, nec erat panis populo terrae.
On the ninth of the month, when the famine is severe in the city, then there has not been bread for the people of the land.
4 Et interrupta est civitas: et omnes viri bellatores nocte fugerunt per viam portae, quae est inter duplicem murum ad hortum regis (porro Chaldaei obsidebant in circuitu civitatem) fugit itaque Sedechias per viam, quae ducit ad campestria solitudinis.
And the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the city all around, and [the king] goes the way of the plain.
5 Et persecutus est exercitus Chaldaeorum regem, comprehenditque eum in planitie Iericho: et omnes bellatores, qui erant cum eo, dispersi sunt, et reliquerunt eum.
And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him;
6 Apprehensum ergo regem duxerunt ad regem Babylonis in Reblatha: qui locutus est cum eo iudicium.
and they seize the king, and bring him up to the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak judgment with him.
7 Filios autem Sedechiae occidit coram eo, et oculos eius effodit, vinxitque eum catenis, et adduxit in Babylonem.
And they have slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and he has blinded the eyes of Zedekiah, and binds him with bronze chains, and they bring him to Babylon.
8 Mense quinto, septima die mensis, ipse est annus nonus decimus regis Babylonis: venit Nabuzardan princeps exercitus, servus regis Babylonis, in Ierusalem.
And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it [is] the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, has come to Jerusalem,
9 Et succendit domum Domini, et domum regis: et domos Ierusalem, omnemque domum combussit igni.
and he burns the house of YHWH, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, indeed, he has burned every great house with fire;
10 Et muros Ierusalem in circuitu destruxit omnis exercitus Chaldaeorum, qui erat cum principe militum.
and all the forces of the Chaldeans, who [are] with the chief of the executioners, have broken down the walls of Jerusalem all around.
11 Reliquam autem populi partem, quae remanserat in civitate, et perfugas, qui transfugerant ad regem Babylonis, et reliquum vulgus transtulit Nabuzardan princeps militiae.
And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners has removed;
12 Et de pauperibus terrae reliquit vinitores et agricolas.
and of the poor of the land the chief of the executioners has left for vinedressers and for farmers.
13 Columnas autem aereas, quae erant in templo Domini, et bases, et mare aereum, quod erat in domo Domini, confregerunt Chaldaei, et transtulerunt aes omne in Babylonem.
And the pillars of bronze that [are] in the house of YHWH, and the bases, and the sea of bronze, that [is] in the house of YHWH, the Chaldeans have broken in pieces, and carry away their bronze to Babylon.
14 Ollas quoque aereas, et trullas, et tridentes, et scyphos, et mortariola, et omnia vasa aerea, in quibus ministrabant, tulerunt.
And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of bronze with which they minister, they have taken;
15 Necnon et thuribula, et phialas: quae aurea, aurea: et quae argentea, argentea tulit princeps militiae,
and the fire-pans, and the bowls that [are] wholly of silver, the chief of the executioners has taken.
16 id est, columnas duas, mare unum, et bases quas fecerat Salomon in templo Domini: non erat pondus aeris omnium vasorum.
The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon made for the house of YHWH, there was no weighing of the bronze of all these vessels;
17 Decem et octo cubitos altitudinis habebat columna una: et capitellum aereum super se altitudinis trium cubitorum: et retiaculum, et malogranata super capitellum columnae, omnia aerea: similem et columna secunda habebat ornatum.
eighteen cubits [is] the height of the one pillar, and the capital on it [is] of bronze, and the height of the capital [is] three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates [are] on the capital all around—the whole [is] of bronze; and the second pillar has like these, with the net.
18 Tulit quoque princeps militiae Saraiam sacerdotem primum, et Sophoniam sacerdotem secundum, et tres ianitores.
And the chief of the executioners takes Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;
19 Et de civitate eunuchum unum, qui erat praefectus super bellatores viros: et quinque viros de his, qui steterant coram rege, quos reperit in civitate: et Sopher principem exercitus, qui probabat tyrones de populo terrae: et sex viros e vulgo, qui inventi fuerant in civitate.
and he has taken out of the city a certain eunuch who is appointed over the men of war, and five men of those seeing the king’s face who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host who musters the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who are found in the city;
20 Quos tollens Nabuzardan princeps militum, duxit ad regem Babylonis in Reblatha.
and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners takes them, and causes them to go to the king of Babylon, to Libnah,
21 Percussitque eos rex Babylonis, et interfecit eos in Reblatha in terra Emath: et translatus est Iuda de terra sua.
and the king of Babylon strikes them, and puts them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removes Judah from off its land.
22 Populo autem, qui relictus erat in Terra Iuda, quem dimiserat Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis, praefecit Godoliam filium Ahicam filii Saphan.
And the people that are left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has left—he appoints Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, over them.
23 Quod cum audissent omnes duces militum, ipsi et viri qui erant cum eis, videlicet quod constituisset rex Babylonis Godoliam: venerunt ad Godoliam in Maspha, Ismahel filius Nathaniae, et Iohanan filius Caree, et Saraia filius Thanehumeth Metophathites, et Iezonias filius Maachathi, ipsi et socii eorum.
And all the heads of the forces hear—they and the men—that the king of Babylon has appointed Gedaliah, and they come to Gedaliah, to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite—they and their men;
24 Iuravitque Godolias ipsis et sociis eorum, dicens: Nolite timere servire Chaldaeis: manete in terra, et servite regi Babylonis, et bene erit vobis.
and Gedaliah swears to them and to their men, and says to them, “Do not be afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans, dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it is good for you.”
25 Factum est autem in mense septimo, venit Ismahel filius Nathaniae, filii Elisama de semine regio, et decem viri cum eo: percusseruntque Godoliam, qui et mortuus est: sed et Iudaeos et Chaldaeos, qui erant cum eo in Maspha.
And it comes to pass, in the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nathaniah has come, son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom, and ten men with him, and they strike Gedaliah, and he dies, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who have been with him in Mizpah.
26 Consurgensque omnis populus a parvo usque ad magnum, et principes militum venerunt in Aegyptum timentes Chaldaeos.
And all the people rise, from small even to great, and the heads of the forces, and come to Egypt, for they have been afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.
27 Factum est vero in anno trigesimo septimo transmigrationis Ioachin regis Iuda, mense duodecimo, vigesima septima die mensis: sublevavit Evilmerodach rex Babylonis, anno, quo regnare coeperat, caput Ioachin regis Iuda de carcere.
And it comes to pass, in the thirty-seventh year of the expulsion of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, Evil-Merodach king of Babylon has lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,
28 Et locutus est ei benigne: et posuit thronum eius super thronum regum, qui erant cum eo in Babylone.
and speaks good things with him and puts his throne above the throne of the kings who [are] with him in Babylon,
29 Et mutavit vestes eius, quas habuerat in carcere, et comedebat panem semper in conspectu eius cunctis diebus vitae suae.
and has changed the garments of his restraint, and he has eaten bread continually before him all [the] days of his life,
30 Annonam quoque constituit ei sine intermissione, quae et dabatur ei a rege per singulos dies omnibus diebus vitae suae.
and his allowance—a continual allowance—has been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all [the] days of his life.
