2 Bakonzi 18
1 Tango Oze, mwana mobali ya Ela, mokonzi ya Isalaele, akokisaki mibu misato na bokonzi, Ezekiasi, mwana mobali ya Akazi, mokonzi ya Yuda, akomaki mokonzi.
Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, became king of Judah in the third year of the reign of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel.
2 Ezekiasi azalaki na mibu tuku mibale na mitano ya mbotama tango akomaki mokonzi, mpe akonzaki mibu tuku mibale na libwa na Yelusalemi. Kombo ya mama na ye ezalaki « Abi. » Abi azalaki mwana mwasi ya Zakari.
He was twenty-five when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years. His mother's name was Abi, daughter of Zechariah.
3 Ezekiasi asalaki makambo ya sembo na miso ya Yawe ndenge Davidi, koko na ye, asalaki.
He did what was right in the Lord's sight, following all that his forefather David had done.
4 Alongolaki bisambelo ya likolo ya bangomba, abukaki makonzi ya bule ya banzambe ya bikeko, mpe akataki likonzi ya bule ya nzambe mwasi Ashera. Abukaki-bukaki nyoka ya ebende oyo Moyize asalaki, pamba te kino na tango wana, bana ya Isalaele bazalaki kotumba ansa mpo na nyoka yango mpe kobenga yango « Nekushitani. »
He removed the high places, smashed the stone idols, and cut down the Asherah poles. He ground to pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, because up to then the Israelites had been sacrificing offerings to it. It was called Nehushtan.
5 Ezekiasi atiaki motema na ye epai na Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele. Mokonzi moko te akokanaki na ye kati na bakonzi nyonso ya Yuda, ezala liboso to sima na ye.
Hezekiah put his trust in the Lord, the God of Israel. Among the kings of Judah there was no one like him, neither before him nor after him.
6 Atikalaki ya kokangama na Yawe mpe atikaki te kolanda Ye; abatelaki mitindo oyo Yawe apesaki na nzela ya Moyize.
He stayed faithful to the Lord and did not give up following him. He kept the commandments that the Lord had given Moses.
7 Yawe azalaki elongo na ye mpe azalaki kolonga na makambo nyonso oyo azalaki kosala. Atombokelaki mokonzi ya Asiri mpe aboyaki kosalela ye.
The Lord was with him; he was successful in everything he did. He defied the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him.
8 Alongaki bato ya Filisitia mpe alandaki bango kino na Gaza, abebisaki engumba mpe etuka na yango, mpe abotolaki bingumba batonga makasi mpe bandako milayi ya bakengeli.
He defeated the Philistines all the way to Gaza and the surrounding area, from watchtower to fortified town.
9 Tango Ezekiasi akokisaki mibu minei na bokonzi, oyo ezalaki mobu ya sambo ya bokonzi ya Oze, mwana mobali ya Ela, mokonzi ya Isalaele, Salimanasari, mokonzi ya Asiri, abundisaki Samari mpe azingelaki yango.
In the fourth year of Hezekiah's reign, equivalent to the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, attacked Samaria, besieging it.
10 Bato ya Asiri babotolaki Samari sima na mibu misato ya bitumba, na mobu ya motoba ya bokonzi ya Ezekiasi, oyo ezalaki mobu ya libwa ya bokonzi ya Oze, mokonzi ya Isalaele.
The Assyrians conquered it after three years. This was during the sixth year of Hezekiah, equivalent to the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel.
11 Mokonzi ya Asiri amemaki bato ya Isalaele na bowumbu na Asiri mpe atiaki bango na Ala, na ngambo ya ebale Abori, na etuka ya Gozani mpe na bingumba ya Medi.
The king of Assyria deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River, and in the towns of the Medes.
12 Makambo oyo esalemaki mpo ete bato ya Isalaele batosaki te Yawe, Nzambe na bango, mpe babukaki boyokani na Ye; elingi koloba ete batosaki te makambo nyonso oyo Moyize, mosali na Nzambe, atindaki bango.
This happened because they refused to listen to the Lord their God and broke his agreement—all that Moses, the Lord's servant, had commanded. They refused to listen and did not obey.
13 Tango mokonzi Ezekiasi akokisaki mibu zomi na minei na bokonzi, Senakeribe, mokonzi ya Asiri, abundisaki bingumba nyonso ya Yuda, oyo batonga makasi mpe abotolaki yango.
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, attacked and conquered all the fortified towns of Judah in the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah.
14 Ezekiasi, mokonzi ya Yuda, atindaki sango oyo epai ya mokonzi ya Asiri, na Lakishi: « Nasali mabe, bima na mboka na ngai; nakofuta yo nyonso oyo okosenga ngai. » Mokonzi ya Asiri akatelaki Ezekiasi, mokonzi ya Yuda, mpako ya motuya ya bakilo nkoto zomi ya palata mpe bakilo nkoto moko ya wolo.
So Hezekiah, king of Judah, sent a message to the king of Assyria who was at Lachish, saying, “I've made a terrible mistake! Please retreat and leave me alone, and I'll pay you whatever you want!” The king of Assyria demanded Hezekiah, king of Judah, pay three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
15 Ezekiasi apesaki ye palata nyonso oyo ezalaki kati na Tempelo ya Yawe mpe kati na bibombelo ya ndako ya mokonzi.
Hezekiah paid him using all the silver from the Lord's Temple and the treasuries of the royal palace.
16 Na tango wana, Ezekiasi, mokonzi ya Yuda, alongolaki wolo oyo asalelaki mpo na kolatisa bikuke mpe mabaya oyo esimbaka bikuke ya Tempelo ya Yawe, mpe apesaki yango epai ya mokonzi ya Asiri.
He even stripped the gold he had used to overlay the doors and doorposts of the Lord's Temple and gave everything to the king of Assyria.
17 Wuta na Lakishi, mokonzi ya Asiri atindaki epai ya mokonzi Ezekiasi, na Yelusalemi, mokonzi ya mampinga na ye, mokonzi ya bakalaka ya lokumu, mokonzi ya basoda oyo bakengelaka ye, mpe mampinga ya basoda ya nguya. Tango bakomaki na Yelusalemi mpe batelemaki pene ya nzela oyo ememaka mayi na liziba ya mayi ya monene, oyo ezali na nzela ya elanga ya moto oyo atiaka langi na bilamba,
Even so, the king of Assyria sent his commander in chief, his head officer, and his army general, along with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They approached Jerusalem and made camp beside the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to where laundry is washed.
18 babelelaki mokonzi. Mpe Eliakimi, mwana mobali ya Ilikia, mobateli biloko ya ndako ya mokonzi; Shebina, mokomi mikanda; mpe Yoa, mwana mobali ya Azafi mpe mobombi mikanda, babimaki mpo na kokutana na bango.
They called for the king. Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, the palace manager, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the record-keeper, went out to speak with them.
19 Mokonzi ya basoda oyo bakengelaka mokonzi ya Asiri alobaki na bango: « Boloba na Ezekiasi: ‹ Tala makambo oyo mokonzi monene, mokonzi ya Asiri, alobi: ‘Otie elikya na yo na nini?
The Assyrian army general said to them, “Tell Hezekiah this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What are you trusting in that gives you such confidence?
20 Okanisi ete maloba ya pamba ekoki kozwa esika ya mayele mpe makasi ya bitumba? Otie penza elikya na nani mpo ete otombokela ngai?
You say you have a strategy and are ready for war, but these are empty words. Who are you relying on, now that you have rebelled against me?
21 Tala, ozali nde kotia elikya na Ejipito oyo ezali lokola mwa nzete ya bambu oyo ebukana, oyo etobolaka mpe ezokisaka loboko ya moto oyo ayekamelaka yango! Faraon, mokonzi ya Ejipito, azalaka nde bongo mpo na bato nyonso oyo batielaka ye motema!’
Now look! You're trusting in Egypt, a walking stick that's like a broken reed that will cut the hand of anyone leaning on it. That's what Pharaoh, king of Egypt, is like to everyone who trusts in him.
22 Tango mosusu bokoloba na ngai: ‘Totiaka elikya na biso kati na Yawe, Nzambe na biso.’ Boni! Ezali ye te oyo Ezekiasi alongolaki bisambelo na ye ya likolo ya bangomba mpe bitumbelo na ye tango alobaki na Yuda mpe na Yelusalemi: ‘Kati na Yelusalemi, bosengeli kogumbama liboso ya etumbelo oyo?’
If you tell me, ‘We're trusting in the Lord our God,’ well didn't Hezekiah remove his high places and his altars, telling Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You have to worship at this altar in Jerusalem’?
23 Sik’oyo, nabondeli yo, beta mondenge na nkolo na ngai, mokonzi ya Asiri: ‘Nakopesa yo bampunda nkoto mibale soki okoki kopesa basoda mpo ete batambolisa yango!
Why don't you accept a challenge from my master, the king of Assyria? He says, I'll give you two thousand horses, if you can find enough riders for them!
24 Okokoka ndenge nini kokimisa ata mokonzi moko kaka, kati na bakonzi ya basoda ya nkolo na ngai, yo oyo otiaka elikya na yo kati na Ejipito mpo na bashar mpe bato oyo batambolisaka yango?
How could you defeat even a single officer in charge of the weakest of my master's men when you're trusting in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
25 Boni, okanisi ete ngai nayei kobundisa mpe kobebisa esika oyo na ndingisa ya Yawe te? Ezali Ye moko Yawe nde alobaki na ngai ete nabundisa mokili oyo mpe nabebisa yango.’ › »
More than that—would I have come to attack this pace without the Lord's encouragement? It was the Lord himself who told me, ‘Go and attack this land and destroy it.’”
26 Eliakimi, mwana mobali ya Ilikia, Shebina mpe Yoa balobaki na mokonzi ya basoda oyo bakengelaka mokonzi: — Tobondeli yo, loba na basali na yo na lokota ya Arami, pamba te tososolaka yango; koloba na biso na lokota ya Ebre te, noki te bato oyo bazali na likolo ya mir bakoyoka.
Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, together with Shebnah and Joah, said to the army general, “Please speak to us, your servants, in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew while the people on the wall are listening.”
27 Mokonzi ya basoda oyo bakengelaka mokonzi azongisaki: — Bokanisi ete nkolo na ngai atindi ngai koloba maloba oyo kaka epai na mokonzi na bino mpe epai na bino? Te! Maloba yango ezali mpe mpo na bato oyo batelemi na likolo ya mir, oyo bakolia nyei na bango mpe komela masuba na bango elongo na bino?
But the army general replied, “Did my master only send me to say these things to your master and to you, and not to the people sitting on the wall? They too, just like you, are going to have to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine!”
28 Boye mokonzi ya basoda oyo bakengelaka mokonzi atelemaki mpe agangaki makasi na lokota ya Ebre: — Boyoka maloba ya mokonzi monene, mokonzi ya Asiri!
Then the army general shouted out in Hebrew, “Listen to this from the great king, the king of Assyria!
29 Tala makambo oyo mokonzi alobi: « Tika ete Ezekiasi akosa bino te, pamba te akokoka te kokangola bino na loboko na ngai!
This is what the king says: Don't let Hezekiah trick you! He can't save you from me!
30 Bondima te ete Ezekiasi atinda bino kotia elikya na Yawe tango azali koloba: ‹ Solo, Yawe akokangola biso. Engumba oyo ekokweya te na maboko ya mokonzi ya Asiri. ›
Don't believe Hezekiah when he tells you to trust in the Lord, saying, ‘I'm certain the Lord will save us. This city will never fall into the hands of the king of Assyria.’
31 Boyokela Ezekiasi te, pamba te tala makambo oyo mokonzi ya Asiri alobi: Bosala boyokani ya kimia elongo na ngai mpe boya epai na ngai; bongo moko na moko kati na bino akolia mbuma ya elanga na ye ya vino, ya nzete na ye ya figi, mpe akomela mayi ya libulu na ye
Don't listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king says: Make a peace treaty with me and surrender to me. That way everyone will eat from their own vine and their own fig tree, and drink water from their own well!
32 liboso ete naya kozwa bino mpo na komema bino na mokili oyo ekokana na oyo ya bino, mokili oyo etonda na ble mpe na vino ya sika, mokili ya mapa mpe ya bilanga ya vino, mokili ya banzete ya olive mpe ya mafuta ya nzoyi. Boye, bokozala na bomoi, bokokufa te! Bondima Ezekiasi te, pamba te azali kokosa bino tango azali koloba: ‹ Yawe akokangola biso. ›
I will come and take you to a land that's like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Then you will live and not die. But don't listen to Hezekiah, for he's tricking you when he says, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’
33 Boni, ezali na nzambe ya ekolo songolo, oyo alonga kokangola ekolo na ye na loboko ya mokonzi ya Asiri?
Have any of the gods of any nation ever saved their land from the power of the king of Assyria?
34 Wapi banzambe ya Amati mpe ya Aripadi? Wapi banzambe ya Sefarivayimi, ya Ena, ya Iva? Boni, balongaki kokangola Samari na loboko na ngai?
Where were the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where were the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah? Were they able to save Samaria from me?
35 Kati na banzambe nyonso ya bikolo oyo, nani azalaki na makoki ya kokangola mokili na ye na maboko na ngai? Bongo ndenge nini Yawe akoka solo kokangola Yelusalemi na maboko na ngai? »
Which one of all the gods of these countries has saved their land from me? How then could the Lord save Jerusalem from me?”
36 Kasi bato batikalaki kimia mpe bazongiselaki ye ata liloba moko te, pamba te mokonzi apesaki mitindo: — Bopesa ye eyano te!
But the people remained silent and didn't say anything, for Hezekiah had given the order, “Don't answer him.”
37 Boye Eliakimi, mwana mobali ya Ilikia mpe mobateli biloko ya ndako ya mokonzi; Shebina, mokomi mikanda; mpe Yoa, mwana mobali ya Azafi mpe mobombi mikanda, bayaki epai ya Ezekiasi na bilamba epasuka, mpe bayebisaki ye makambo oyo mokonzi ya basoda oyo bakengelaka mokonzi ya Asiri alobaki.
Then Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, the palace manager, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, son of Asaph, the record-keeper, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they told him what the Assyrian army general had said.
