دوم پادشاهان 24

1 در دورهٔ سلطنت یهویاقیم، نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل به اورشلیم حمله کرد. یهویاقیم تسلیم شد و سه سال به او باج و خراج پرداخت، اما بعد از آن، سر از فرمان وی پیچید و شورش نمود.

During his days, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ascended, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. And again he rebelled against him.

2 خداوند لشکر بابِلی، سوری، موآبی و عمونی را فرستاد تا همان‌طور که به‌وسیلۀ انبیا خبر داده بود، یهودا را نابود کنند.

And the Lord sent to him the robbers of the Chaldeans, and the robbers of Syria, and the robbers of Moab, and the robbers of the sons of Ammon. And he sent them into Judah, so that they might destroy it, in accord with the word of the Lord, which he had spoken through his servants, the prophets.

3 بدون شک این بلاها به فرمان خداوند بر یهودا نازل شد. خداوند تصمیم داشت یهودا را به سبب گناهان بی‌شمار مَنَسی طرد کند،

Then this occurred, by the word of the Lord against Judah, that he took him away from before himself because of all the sins of Manasseh which he did,

4 زیرا مَنَسی اورشلیم را از خون بی‌گناهان پر کرده بود و خداوند نخواست این گناهان را ببخشد.

and because of the innocent blood which he shed, and because he filled Jerusalem with the slaughter of the innocent. And for this reason, the Lord was not willing to be appeased.

5 شرح بقیهٔ رویدادهای دوران سلطنت یهویاقیم و کارهای او در کتاب تاریخ پادشاهان یهودا نوشته شده است.

But the rest of the words of Jehoiakim, and all that he did, have these not been written in the book of the words of the days of the kings of Judah? And Jehoiakim slept with his fathers.

6 پس از مرگ یهویاقیم پسرش یهویاکین به جای او بر تخت سلطنت نشست.

And Jehoiachin, his son, reigned in his place.

7 (پادشاه مصر دیگر از مرزهای خود خارج نشد، زیرا پادشاه بابِل تمام متصرفات مصر را که شامل یهودا هم می‌شد، از نهر مصر تا رود فرات، اشغال نمود.)

And the king of Egypt no longer continued to go out from his own land. For the king of Babylon had taken all that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the river of Egypt as far as the river Euphrates.

8 یهویاکین هجده ساله بود که پادشاه یهودا شد و سه ماه در اورشلیم سلطنت کرد. (مادرش نحوشطا، دختر الناتان و از اهالی اورشلیم بود.)

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for three months in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan, from Jerusalem.

9 یهویاکین مانند پدرش نسبت به خداوند گناه ورزید.

And he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all that his father had done.

10 در دورهٔ سلطنت یهویاکین، لشکر نِبوکَدنِصَّر، پادشاه بابِل، اورشلیم را محاصره کرد.

At that time, the servants of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, ascended against Jerusalem. And the city was encircled with fortifications.

11 وقتی شهر در محاصره بود، خود نِبوکَدنِصَّر هم به آنجا رسید.

And Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, went to the city, with his servants, so that he might fight against it.

12 یهویاکین و تمام مقامات و فرماندهان و خدمتگزاران دربارش و ملکهٔ مادر تسلیم نِبوکَدنِصَّر شدند. پادشاه بابِل در سال هشتم سلطنت خود، یهویاکین را زندانی کرد.

And Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his leaders, and his eunuchs. And the king of Babylon received him, in the eighth year of his reign.

13 طبق آنچه خداوند فرموده بود، بابِلی‌ها تمام اشیاء قیمتی خانهٔ خداوند، جواهرات کاخ سلطنتی و تمام ظروف طلا را که سلیمان پادشاه برای خانهٔ خداوند ساخته بود، در هم شکستند.

And he took from there all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the house of the king. And he cut up all the gold vessels which Solomon, the king of Israel, had made for the temple of the Lord, in accord with the word of the Lord.

14 نِبوکَدنِصَّر اهالی اورشلیم را که شامل فرماندهان و سربازان، صنعتگران و آهنگران می‌شدند و تعدادشان به ده هزار نفر می‌رسید به بابِل تبعید کرد، و فقط افراد فقیر را در آن سرزمین باقی گذاشت.

And he carried away all of Jerusalem, and all the leaders, and all the strong men of the army, ten thousand, into captivity, with every artisan and craftsman. And no one was left behind, except the poor among the people of the land.

15 نِبوکَدنِصَّر، یهویاکین را با مادر و زنان او، فرماندهان و مقامات مملکتی به بابِل برد.

Also, he carried away Jehoiachin into Babylon, and the mother of the king, and the wives of the king, and his eunuchs. And he led into captivity the judges of the land, from Jerusalem to Babylon,

16 همچنین تمام سربازان جنگ آزموده را که هفت هزار نفر بودند و هزار صنعتگر و آهنگر را اسیر کرده، به بابِل برد.

and all the robust men, seven thousand, and the artisans and craftsman, one thousand: all who were strong men and fit for war. And the king of Babylon led them away as captives, into Babylon.

17 بعد پادشاه بابِل متنیا عموی یهویاکین را به جای او به پادشاهی تعیین نمود و نامش را به صدقیا تغییر داد.

And he appointed Mattaniah, his uncle, in his place. And he imposed the name Zedekiah upon him.

18 صدقیا بیست و یک ساله بود که پادشاه یهودا شد و یازده سال در اورشلیم سلطنت نمود. (مادرش حموطل، دختر ارمیا و از اهالی لبنه بود.)

Zedekiah held twenty-one years of life when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah, from Libnah.

19 او مانند یهویاقیم نسبت به خداوند گناه ورزید.

And he did evil before the Lord, in accord with all that Jehoiakim had done.

20 خشم خداوند بر مردم اورشلیم و یهودا افروخته شد و او ایشان را طرد نمود.

For the Lord was angry against Jerusalem and against Judah, until he cast them away from his face. And so Zedekiah withdrew from the king of Babylon.