دوم تواریخ 21

1 وقتی یهوشافاط مرد، او را در آرامگاه سلطنتی در اورشلیم، شهر داوود، دفن کردند و پسر او یهورام به جای او به سلطنت رسید.

And Jehoshaphat went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David. And Jehoram his son became king in his place.

2 برادران او، یعنی سایر پسران یهوشافاط، اینها بودند: عزریا، یحی‌ئیل، زکریا، عزریاهو، میکائیل و شفطیا.

And he had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.

3 پدرشان به هر یک از آنها هدایایی گرانبها از قبیل نقره و طلا و جواهرات و نیز شهرهای حصاردار در یهودا بخشیده بود. اما سلطنت را به یهورام داد چون پسر ارشدش بود. ولی یهورام وقتی زمام امور را به دست گرفت و بر اوضاع مسلط شد، تمام برادران خود و عدهٔ زیادی از بزرگان اسرائیل را کشت.

And their father gave them much silver and gold and things of great value, as well as walled towns in Judah; but the kingdom he gave to Jehoram, because he was the oldest.

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Now when Jehoram had taken his place over his father's kingdom, and had made his position safe, he put all his brothers to death with the sword, as well as some of the princes of Israel.

5 یهورام در سن سی و دو سالگی پادشاه شد و هشت سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد،

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.

6 دختر اَخاب زن او بود و او مانند اَخاب و سایر پادشاهان اسرائیل نسبت به خداوند گناه می‌ورزید.

He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, and did as the family of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

7 اما خداوند نخواست دودمان سلطنت داوود را براندازد، زیرا با داوود عهد بسته بود که همیشه یکی از پسرانش پادشاه باشد.

But it was not the Lord's purpose to send destruction on the family of David, because of the agreement he had made with David, when he said he would give to him and to his sons a light for ever.

8 در دورهٔ سلطنت یهورام، مردم ادوم از فرمان یهودا سرپیچی کردند و پادشاهی برای خود تعیین نمودند.

In his time Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, and took a king for themselves.

9 یهورام و فرماندهان سپاه او با تمام ارابه‌های جنگی عازم ادوم شدند. اما ادومی‌ها آنها را محاصره کردند و یهورام شبانه از دست ادومی‌ها گریخت.

Then Jehoram went over with his captains and all his war-carriages ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him ... on the captains of the war-carriages.

10 به این ترتیب ادوم تا به امروز استقلال خود را از یهودا حفظ کرده است. در این هنگام اهالی شهر لبنه نیز شورش نمودند، زیرا یهورام از خداوند، خدای اجدادش برگشته بود.

So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah, to this day: and at the same time Libnah made itself free from his rule; because he was turned away from the Lord, the God of his fathers.

11 او همچنین بر بلندیهای یهودا بتخانه‌ها ساخت و اهالی اورشلیم را به بت‌پرستی کشاند و باعث شد مردم یهودا از خدا دور شوند.

And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.

12 یهورام نامه‌ای از ایلیای نبی با این مضمون دریافت کرد: «خداوند، خدای جد تو داوود، می‌فرماید که چون مثل پدرت یهوشافاط و مانند آسا پادشاه یهودا رفتار نکردی،

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

13 بلکه مثل پادشاهان اسرائیل شرور بوده‌ای و مانند زمان اَخاب پادشاه، مردم یهودا و اورشلیم را به بت‌پرستی کشانده‌ای، و چون برادرانت را که از خودت بهتر بودند به قتل رساندی،

But have gone in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the people of Jerusalem go after false gods, as the family of Ahab did: and because you have put to death your father's sons, your brothers, who were better than yourself:

14 پس خداوند بلای سختی دامنگیر قوم تو و زنان و فرزندانت خواهد کرد؛ و تو هر چه داری از دست خواهی داد.

Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

15 خودت نیز به مرض روده‌ای سختی مبتلا خواهی شد و این مرض آنقدر طول خواهد کشید تا روده‌هایت از بین برود.»

And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease.

16 بنابراین خداوند فلسطینی‌ها و عرب‌هایی را که همسایهٔ حبشی‌ها بودند بر ضد یهورام برانگیخت.

Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;

17 آنها به یهودا حمله کرده، آن را گرفتند و تمام اموال کاخ سلطنتی و پسران و زنان یهورام را برداشته، با خود بردند. فقط پسر کوچک او اخزیا جان به در برد.

And they came up against Judah, forcing a way into it, and took away all the goods in the king's house, as well as his sons and his wives; so that he had no son but only Jehoahaz, the youngest.

18 پس از آن، خداوند یهورام را به یک مرض علاج‌ناپذیر روده‌ای مبتلا کرد.

And after all this the Lord sent on him a disease of the stomach from which it was impossible for him to be made well.

19 به مرور زمان، بعد از دو سال، روده‌هایش بیرون آمد و او با دردی جانکاه مرد. قومش مراسم مخصوص دفن پادشاهان را برای او انجام ندادند.

And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.

20 یهورام سی و دو سال داشت که پادشاه شد و هشت سال در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد و هنگامی که مرد، کسی برایش عزا نگرفت. یهورام در شهر داوود دفن شد، اما نه در آرامگاه سلطنتی.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years: and at his death he was not regretted; they put his body into the earth in the town of David, but not in the resting-place of the kings.