ارمیا 41

1 اما در ماه هفتم، اسماعیل (پسر نتنیا، نوهٔ الیشاماع) که از خاندان سلطنتی و یکی از مقامات بلند پایۀ پادشاه بود، به همراه ده نفر به مصفه نزد جدلیا آمد. هنگامی که با هم غذا می‌خوردند،

And it happened that, in the seventh month, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama of royal descent, with the nobles of the king, and accompanied by ten men, went to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, at Mizpah. And they ate bread together there, in Mizpah.

2 ناگهان اسماعیل و همراهانش، شمشیرهایشان را کشیدند و بر جدلیا که پادشاه بابِل او را فرماندار ساخته بود، حمله‌ور شده، او را کشتند.

Then Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, rose up, and the ten men who were with him, and they struck down Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, and they killed him whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.

3 سپس بیرون رفتند و تمام سربازان یهودی و بابِلی را که در مصفه با جدلیا بودند، قتل عام کردند.

Likewise, Ishmael struck down all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, with the Chaldeans who were found there, and the men of war.

4 روز بعد، پیش از آنکه خبر این ماجرا پخش شود،

Then, on the second day after he had killed Gedaliah, while no one yet knew of it,

5 هشتاد نفر از شهرهای شکیم، شیلوه و سامره از نزدیکی مصفه عبور می‌کردند و به رسم عزاداری، با ریش تراشیده، لباسهای دریده و صورت خراشیده، با هدیه و بخور به خانهٔ خداوند می‌رفتند.

men arrived from Shechem, and from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their garments rent, and unbathed. And they had gifts and frankincense in hand, so that they might make an offering in the house of the Lord.

6 اسماعیل در حالی که می‌گریست، برای استقبال آنها از شهر بیرون رفت. وقتی به ایشان رسید، گفت: «بیایید و ببینید چه بر سر جدلیا آمده است!»

Therefore, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, departing from Mizpah to meet them, went forth weeping as he was walking. And when he had met them, he said to them, “Come to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam.”

7 وقتی همه وارد شهر شدند، اسماعیل و همدستانش آنها را نیز کشتند و جنازه‌هایشان را در گودال انداختند.

And when they had arrived at the center of the city, Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, put them to death around the public cistern, he and the men who were with him.

8 ولی در آن گروه، ده نفر بودند که به اسماعیل قول دادند که اگر آنها را نکشد، بروند و هر چه گندم، جو، روغن و عسل پنهان کرده‌اند، برایش بیاورند. پس آن ده نفر را نکشتند.

But ten men were found among them, who said to Ishmael: “Do not kill us! For in the field we have storehouses of grain and barley and oil and honey.” And so he ceased, and he did not put them to death with their brothers.

9 گودالی که اسماعیل جنازهٔ مقتولین را در آن انداخت همان گودالی است که آسای پادشاه، به هنگام بنای برج و باروی مصفه در زمان جنگ با بعشا، پادشاه اسرائیل، حفر نموده بود.

Now the cistern, into which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had struck down because of Gedaliah, is the same one that king Asa made out of fear of Baasha, the king of Israel. This same cistern Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, filled with those who were slain.

10 در ضمن اسماعیل، دختران پادشاه و بازماندگان قوم را که در مصفه بودند و نبوزرادان فرماندهٔ گارد پادشاه بابِل ایشان را به دست جدلیا سپرده بود، اسیر کرد و همه را با خود برداشت و به سوی سرزمین عمونی‌ها به راه افتاد.

Then Ishmael led away captive all the remnant of the people who were at Mizpah, the king’s daughters as well as all the people who remained at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan, the leader of the military, had committed to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam. And Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, seized them and went away, so that he might go over to the sons of Ammon.

11 ولی یوحانان (پسر قاریح) و سایر سرداران لشکر وقتی از جنایت اسماعیل آگاهی یافتند،

But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the fighters who were with him, heard about all the evil that Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had done.

12 با تمام نفرات خود به تعقیب او پرداختند تا او را بکشند. آنها در نزدیکی برکهٔ بزرگ واقع در جبعون به او رسیدند.

And taking all the men, they set out to make war against Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah. And they found him at the great waters that are in Gibeon.

13 اشخاصی که در اسارت اسماعیل بودند، وقتی یوحانان و همراهان او را دیدند، از خوشحالی فریاد برآوردند و به سوی آنها دویدند.

And when all the people who were with Ishmael had seen Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the fighters who were with him, they rejoiced.

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And all the people whom Ishmael had seized turned back to Mizpah. And they returned and went over to Johanan, the son of Kareah.

15 در این گیرودار اسماعیل با هشت نفر از همدستانش موفق شد به سرزمین عمونی‌ها بگریزد.

But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, fled with eight men from the face of Johanan, and they went over to the sons of Ammon.

16 یوحانان و افرادش بی‌درنگ همهٔ سربازان، زنان، بچه‌ها و خواجه‌سرایانی را که نجات داده بودند، برداشتند و از جبعون به دهکدهٔ جیروت کمهام در نزدیکی بیت‌لحم رفتند، تا از آنجا از ترس بابِلی‌ها به مصر بگریزند، زیرا جدلیا، فرماندار پادشاه بابِل، به دست اسماعیل کشته شده بود.

Therefore, Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the leaders of the fighters who were with him, took from Mizpah the entire remnant of the common people, whom they had led away from Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam. These were strong men of battle, and women, and children, and eunuchs: those whom he had led away from Gibeon.

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And they went away and settled as sojourners at Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, so that they might continue on and enter into Egypt,

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away from the face of the Chaldeans. For they were afraid of them, because Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, had struck down Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land of Judah.