2 Krønikebok 14
1 Og Abia la sig til hvile hos sine fedre og blev begravet i Davids stad, og hans sønn Asa blev konge i hans sted. I hans dager hadde landet ro i ti år.
So Abijah went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David, and Asa his son became king in his place; in his time the land was quiet for ten years.
2 Asa gjorde hvad godt og rett var i Herrens, hans Guds øine.
And Asa did what was good and right in the eyes of the Lord his God;
3 Han fikk bort de fremmede guders altere og offerhaugene og sønderbrøt støttene og hugg Astartebilledene i stykker.
For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;
4 Og han bød Juda å søke Herren, deres fedres Gud, og holde loven og budene.
And he made Judah go after the Lord, the God of their fathers, and keep his laws and his orders.
5 I alle Judas byer fikk han bort offerhaugene og solstøttene, og riket hadde ro under ham.
And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
6 Han bygget festninger i Juda; for landet hadde ro, og ingen førte krig mot ham i de år, fordi Herren gav ham ro.
He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.
7 Han sa til Juda: La oss bygge disse byer og reise murer og tårner, porter og bommer omkring dem! Ennu råder vi fritt over landet, fordi vi har søkt Herren vår Gud; vi har søkt ham, og han har gitt oss ro på alle kanter. Så tok de til å bygge, og det lyktes for dem.
He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.
8 Asas hær var tre hundre tusen mann av Juda, som var væbnet med spyd og store skjold, og to hundre og åtti tusen av Benjamin, som bar små skjold og skjøt med bue; de var alle djerve stridsmenn.
And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.
9 Men etioperen Serah drog ut imot dem med en hær på tusen ganger tusen mann og tre hundre stridsvogner, og han kom til Maresa.
And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.
10 Og Asa drog ut imot ham, og de stilte sig i fylking i Sefata-dalen ved Maresa.
And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.
11 Da ropte Asa til Herren sin Gud og sa: Herre, for dig gjør det ingen forskjell, enten du hjelper den mektige eller den maktesløse. Hjelp oss, Herre vår Gud! Til dig setter vi vår lit, og i ditt navn er vi gått mot denne store mengde. Herre, du er vår Gud; la ikke et menneske stå sig imot dig!
And Asa made prayer to the Lord his God and said, Lord, you only are able to give help against the strong to him who has no strength; come to our help, O Lord our God, for our hope is in you, and in your name we have come out against this great army. O Lord, you are our God; let not man's power be greater than yours.
12 Da lot Herren etioperne bli slått av Asa og Juda, og etioperne flyktet.
So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.
13 Asa og hans folk forfulgte dem like til Gerar, og av etioperne falt det så mange at ingen av dem blev i live; de blev knust av Herren og hans hær. Og de førte et umåtelig stort hærfang bort med sig.
And Asa and the people who were with him went after them as far as Gerar; and so great was the destruction among the Ethiopians that they were not able to get their army together again, for they were broken before the Lord and before his army; and they took away a great amount of their goods.
14 Og de inntok alle byene rundt omkring Gerar, for frykt for Herren var kommet over dem, og de plyndret alle byene, for det var meget å plyndre i dem.
And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.
15 Endog teltene for buskapen tok de, og de førte bort en mengde med småfe og kameler, og så vendte de tilbake til Jerusalem.
And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.
