2 Dnevnika 12
1 A kad Rovoam utvrdi carstvo i kad osili, ostavi zakon Gospodnji i sav Izrailj s njim.
After Rehoboam was in complete control of his kingdom, he and all [the other people in] Judah stopped obeying the laws of Yahweh.
2 A pete godine carovanja Rovoamova doðe Sisak car Misirski na Jerusalim, jer zgriješiše Gospodu,
As a result, after Rehoboam had been king for almost five years, Yahweh sent Shishak, the king of Egypt, [with his army] to attack Jerusalem.
3 S tisuæu i dvije stotine kola i sa šezdeset tisuæa konjika, i ne bješe broja narodu koji doðe s njim iz Misira, Luvejima, Suhejima i Husejima.
Along with his army he brought 1,200 chariots and 60,000 soldiers riding horses and a very large number of troops from two regions in Libya, and from Ethiopia.
4 I uze tvrde gradove Judine i doðe do Jerusalima.
They captured many of the cities in Judah that had walls around them, and they came as far as Jerusalem.
5 Tada doðe Semaja prorok k Rovoamu i knezovima Judinijem, koji se bijahu skupili u Jerusalim od Sisaka, i reèe im: ovako veli Gospod: vi ostaviste mene, zato i ja ostavljam vas u ruke Sisaku.
Then the prophet Shemaiah came to Rehoboam and the other leaders of Judah who had gathered in Jerusalem because they were afraid of [the army of] Shishak. Shemaiah said to them, “Yahweh says this: ‘You have abandoned me; so now I am abandoning you, to [allow you to be captured by the army of] Shishak.’”
6 Tada se poniziše knezovi Izrailjevi i car i rekoše: pravedan je Gospod.
Then the king and the other Israeli leaders humbled themselves and said, “What Yahweh is doing to us is fair.”
7 A kad ih vidje Gospod gdje se poniziše, doðe rijeè Gospodnja Semaji govoreæi: poniziše se, neæu ih potrti, nego æu im sada dati izbavljenje, i neæe se izliti jarost moja na Jerusalim preko Sisaka.
When Yahweh realized that they had humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “Because they have humbled themselves, I will not allow them to be destroyed. Instead, I will soon rescue them. I will not use Shishak’s army to completely destroy the people of Jerusalem,
8 Nego æe mu biti sluge da poznadu šta je meni služiti, šta li služiti carstvima zemaljskim.
but they will conquer Jerusalem and force the people there to do what Shishak wants them to do. As a result, the people of Jerusalem will learn [that it is better] to serve me than to serve the kings of other countries.”
9 I tako doðe Sisak car Misirski u Jerusalim i uze blago doma Gospodnjega i blago doma careva, sve to uze; uze i štitove zlatne, koje bješe naèinio Solomun;
When Shishak’s [army] attacked Jerusalem, they took/carried away the valuable things that were in the temple of Yahweh and the valuable things that were in the king’s palace. They took everything [that was valuable], including the gold shields that Solomon’s [workers] had made.
10 I na njihovo mjesto naèini car Rovoam štitove od mjedi, i predade ih starješinama nad stražarima koji èuvahu vrata doma careva.
So King Rehoboam’s workers made bronze shields to be used instead of the gold ones and gave the bronze shields to the commanders of the men who guarded the entrance to his palace.
11 I kad iðaše car u dom Gospodnji dolažahu stražari i nošahu ih, a poslije ih opet ostavljahu u riznicu stražarsku.
After that, whenever the king went to the temple, the guards went with him, carrying those bronze shields. Then [when the king left, ] they would return the shields to the guards’ room.
12 Što se dakle ponizi, odvrati se od njega gnjev Gospodnji, i ne zatr ga sasvijem; jer još u Judi bješe dobra.
Because Rehoboam humbled himself, Yahweh stopped being angry with him and did not get rid of him. Instead, he caused good things to happen in Judah.
13 I utvrdi se car Rovoam u Jerusalimu, i carova; jer bijaše Rovoamu èetrdeset i jedna godina kad se zacari, i sedamnaest godina carova u Jerusalimu gradu, koji izabra Gospod izmeðu svijeh plemena Izrailjevijeh da ondje namjesti ime svoje. A materi njegovoj bješe ime Nama, Amonka.
King Rehoboam again was in complete control in Jerusalem and continued to be the king [of Judah]. He was 41 years old when he became the king. He ruled for 17 years in Jerusalem, which is the city that Yahweh had chosen from all the tribes in Israel to be the place in which people were to worship him.
14 Ali on èinjaše zlo, jer ne upravi srca svojega da traži Gospoda.
Rehoboam’s mother’s name was Naamah. She was from the Ammon people-group. Rehoboam did evil things because he did not try to find out what Yahweh wanted him to do.
15 Ali djela Rovoamova prva i pošljednja nijesu li zapisana u knjizi proroka Semaje i vidioca Ida, gdje se kazuju koljena a i ratovi koji bijahu jednako meðu Rovoamom i Jerovoamom?
An account of all the things that Rehoboam did while he was the king, and lists of the members of his family, are in the scrolls written by the prophets Shemaiah and Iddo. The armies of Rehoboam and Jeroboam were constantly fighting each other.
16 I poèinu Rovoam kod otaca svojih, i bi pogreben u gradu Davidovu; a na njegovo se mjesto zacari Avija sin njegov.
When Rehoboam died, he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’. Then his son Abijah became the king.
