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 came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.
2 Et clausa est civitas atque vallata usque ad undecimum annum regis Sedechiae,
So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3 nona die mensis: praevaluitque fames in civitate, nec erat panis populo terrae.
On the ninth day of the [fourth] month the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no 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.
Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldeans were against the city round about: ) and [the king] went by the way of the Arabah.
5 Et persecutus est exercitus Chaldaeorum regem, comprehenditque eum in planitie Iericho: et omnes bellatores, qui erant cum eo, dispersi sunt, et reliquerunt eum.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was scattered from him.
6 Apprehensum ergo regem duxerunt ad regem Babylonis in Reblatha: qui locutus est cum eo iudicium.
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
7 Filios autem Sedechiae occidit coram eo, et oculos eius effodit, vinxitque eum catenis, et adduxit in Babylonem.
And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried 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.
Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
9 Et succendit domum Domini, et domum regis: et domos Ierusalem, omnemque domum combussit igni.
And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
10 Et muros Ierusalem in circuitu destruxit omnis exercitus Chaldaeorum, qui erat cum principe militum.
And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were [with] the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
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 residue of the people that were left in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
12 Et de pauperibus terrae reliquit vinitores et agricolas.
But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
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 brass that were in the house of the LORD, and the bases and the brasen sea that were in the house of the LORD, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them 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 brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
15 Necnon et thuribula, et phialas: quae aurea, aurea: et quae argentea, argentea tulit princeps militiae,
And the firepans, and the basons; that which was of gold, in gold; and that which was of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
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, which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
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.
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a chapiter of brass was upon it: and the height of the chapiter was three cubits; with network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with network.
18 Tulit quoque princeps militiae Saraiam sacerdotem primum, et Sophoniam sacerdotem secundum, et tres ianitores.
And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
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 out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war; and five men of them that saw the king’s face, which were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, which mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the city.
20 Quos tollens Nabuzardan princeps militum, duxit ad regem Babylonis in Reblatha.
And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
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 smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
22 Populo autem, qui relictus erat in Terra Iuda, quem dimiserat Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis, praefecit Godoliam filium Ahicam filii Saphan.
And as for the people that were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
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.
Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, 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 sware to them and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with 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.
But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
26 Consurgensque omnis populus a parvo usque ad magnum, et principes militum venerunt in Aegyptum timentes Chaldaeos.
And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid 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 came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
28 Et locutus est ei benigne: et posuit thronum eius super thronum regum, qui erant cum eo in Babylone.
and he spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were 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 he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually 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 for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.
