1 N ow it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

وَاعتَلَى حَزَقِيّا بْنُ آحازَ عَرْشَ يَهُوذا فِي السَّنَةِ الثّالِثَةِ مِنْ حُكْمِ هُوشَعَ بْنِ أيلَةَ لإسْرائِيلَ.

2 T wenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

وَكانَ حَزَقِيّا فِي الخامِسَةِ وَالعِشْرِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِهِ عِنْدَما بَدَأ حُكْمَهُ، وَحَكَمَ تِسْعاً وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةً فِي القُدْسِ. وَاسْمُ أُمِّهِ هُوَ أبِي بِنْتُ زَكَرِيّا.

3 A nd he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father did.

عَمِلَ حَزَقِيّا ما يُرْضِي اللهَ مِثلَ جَدِّهِ داوُدَ.

4 H e removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

فَهَدَمَ المُرتَفَعاتِ، وَكَسَّرَ الأنصابَ التَّذْكارِيَّةَ، وَقَطَعَ أعمِدَةَ عَشْتَرُوتَ. فِي ذَلِكَ الوَقتِ، كانَ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ يُحرِقُونَ البَخُورَ لِلحَيَّةِ البُرونْزِيَّةِ الَّتِي صَنَعَها مُوسَى، وَدَعُوها «نَحشَتانَ،» فَسَحَقَها حَزَقِيّا سَحْقاً.

5 H e trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

وَاتَّكَلَ حَزَقِيّا عَلَى اللهِ ، إلَهِ إسْرائِيلَ. وَلَمْ يَكُنْ لِحَزَقِيّا مَثِيلٌ بَينَ مُلُوكِ يَهُوذا الَّذِينَ سَبَقُوهُ أوْ خَلَفُوهُ.

6 F or he clave to the Lord, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

إذْ تَمَسَّكَ بِاللهِ بِقُوَّةٍ، وَظَلَّ عَلَى وَفائِهِ لَهُ. وَأطاعَ كُلَّ الوَصايا الَّتِي أعطاها اللهُ لِمُوسَى.

7 A nd the Lord was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

فَكانَ اللهُ مَعَ حَزَقِيّا، فَنَجَحَ فِي كُلِّ ما كانَ يَفعَلُهُ. وَتَمَرَّدَ حَزَقِيّا عَلَى مَلِكِ أشُّورَ. فَلَمْ يَعُدْ مُوالِياً لَهُ.

8 H e smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

وَهَزَمَ الفِلِسْطِيِّينَ وَلاحَقَهُمْ إلَى غَزَّةَ وَالمِنطَقَةِ المُحِيطَةِ بِها، وَاقتَحَمَ مُدُنَهُمُ مِنْ بُرجِ المُراقَبَةِ إلَى المَدِينَةِ المُحَصَّنَةِ. الأشُّورِيُّونَ يَسْتَولُونَ عَلَى السّامِرَة

9 A nd it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

وَذَهَبَ شَلْمَنْأَسَرُ، مَلِكُ أشُّورَ لِمُحارَبَةِ السّامِرَةِ، وَحاصَرَ جَيشُهُ المَدِينَةَ. كانَ هَذا فِي السَّنَةِ الرّابِعَةِ مِنْ حُكْمِ حَزَقِيّا لِيَهُوذا. وَهِيَ أيضاً السَّنَةُ السّابِعَةُ لِحُكْمِ هُوشَعَ بْنِ أيلَةَ لإسْرائِيلَ.

10 A nd at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

وَاسْتَولَى شَلْمَنْأَسَرُ عَلَى السّامِرَةِ فِي نِهايَةِ السَّنَةِ الثّالِثَةِ، أي فِي السَّنَةِ السّادِسَةِ مِنْ حُكْمِ حَزَقِيّا لِيَهُوذا. وَهِيَ أيضاً السَّنَةُ التّاسِعَةُ مِنْ حُكْمِ هُوشَعَ لإسْرائِيلَ.

11 A nd the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

وَسَبَى مَلِكُ أشُّورَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ إلَى أشُّورَ وَأسْكَنَهُمْ فِي مَدينَةِ حَلَحَ، عَلَى نَهْرِ خابُورَ فِي أرْضِ جُوزانَ، وَفِي مُدُنِ المادِيِّينَ.

12 b ecause they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

لِأنَّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ لَمْ يُطِيعُوا صَوْتَ إلَهِهِمْ ، بَلْ كَسَرُوا عَهْدَهُ. وَلَمْ يَعمَلُوا بِوَصايا خادِمِ اللهِ مُوسَى. لَمْ يَسْمَعُوا وَلَمْ يَطِيْعُوا. أشُّورُ تَسْتَعِدُّ لِلاسْتِيلاءِ عَلَى يَهُوذا

13 N ow in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

وَفِي السَّنَةِ الرّابِعَةَ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ حُكْمِ حَزَقِيّا، ذَهَبَ سَنْحارِيبُ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ لِمُحارَبَةِ كُلِّ مُدُنِ يَهُوذا المُحَصَّنَةِ. وَتَمَكَّنَ مِنَ الاسْتِيلاءِ عَلَيها.

14 A nd Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

فَأرْسَلَ حَزَقِيّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذا رِسالَةً إلَى مَلِكِ أشُّورَ فِي لَخِيشَ، جاءَ فِيها: «لَقَدْ أخطَأْتُ. لا تُهاجِمْنِي. وَسَأُعطِيكَ أيَّ مَبلَغٍ تَفرِضُهُ عَلَيَّ.» فَفَرَضَ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ عَلَى حَزَقِيّا جِزْيَةً مِقدارُها ثَلاثُ مِئَةِ قِنْطارٍ مِنَ الفِضَّةِ وَثَلاثُونَ قِنْطاراً مِنَ الذَّهَبِ.

15 A nd Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

فَأعطاهُ حَزَقِيّا كُلَّ الفِضَّةِ الَّتِي فِي بَيتِ اللهِ وَفِي بَيتِ المَلِكِ.

16 A t that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

فَقَشَّرَ حَزَقِيّا الذَّهَبَ الَّذِي كانَ حَزَقِيّا مَلِكُ يَهُوذا قَدْ غَشَّى بِهِ أبْوابَ هَيكَلِ اللهِ وَدَعائِمَها، وَأعطاهُ لِمَلِكِ أشُّورَ. مَلِكُ أشُّورَ يُرْسِلُ رِجالاً إلَى القُدْس

17 A nd the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

أرْسَلَ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ قادَتَهُ الثَّلاثَةَ تَرْتانَ وَرَبْسَرِيسَ وَرَبْشاقَى مِنْ لَخِيشَ إلَى المَلِكِ حَزَقِيّا فِي القُدْسِ. جاءُوا عَلَى رَأْسِ جَيشٍ عَظِيمٍ، وَوَقَفُوا عِنْدَ القَناةِ قُرْبَ البِرْكَةِ العُلْيا الَّتِي تَقَعُ عَلَى الطَّرِيقِ إلَى حَقلِ الغَّسّالِينَ وَمُبيِّضي الثِّيابِ.

18 A nd when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

فَنادَى هَؤُلاءِ الرِّجالُ الثَّلاثَةُ. فَخَرَجَ لِلِقائِهِمْ ألِياقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيّا المَسْؤولُ عَنْ بَيتِ المَلِكِ، وَشِبْنَةُ كاتِبُ المَلِكِ، وَيُواخُ بْنُ آسافَ حافِظُ السِّجِلّاتِ.

19 A nd Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

فَقالَ لَهُمْ رَبْشاقَى: «قُولُوا لِحَزَقِيّا: هَذا هُوَ ما يَقُولُهُ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ العَظِيمُ: ‹ما الَّذِي تَتَّكِلُ عَلَيهِ؟

20 T hou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

أنْتَ تَقُولُ: لَدَيَّ مُسْتَشارُونَ وَقُوَّةٌ تُعِينُنِي فِي الحَرْبِ، وَكَلامُكَ هَذا مُجَرَّدُ هَباءٍ! عَلَى مَنْ تَتَّكِلْ في تَمَرُّدِكَ عَلَيَّ؟

21 N ow, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

أنْتَ مُتَّكِئٌ عَلَى عُكّازٍ مِنْ قَصَبَةٍ مَكْسُورَةٍ. فَهذِهِ هِيَ مِصْرُ الَّتِي إنِ اتَّكَأ أحَدٌ عَلَيها اختَرَقَتْ يَدَهُ. هَكَذا هُوَ مَلِكُ مِصْرَ لِكُلِّ الَّذِينَ يَتَّكِلُونَ عَلَيهِ.

22 B ut if ye say unto me, We trust in the Lord our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

‹وَإنْ قُلْتَ: نَتَّكِلُ عَلَى يهوه إلِهِنا! أما أزالَ حَزَقِيّا مَذابِحَهُ وَأماكِنَ عِبادَته، وَقالَ لِأهلِ يَهُوذا وَالقُدْسِ: لا تَعبُدُوا إلّا أمامَ هَذا المَذبَحِ هُنا فِي القُدْسِ؟

23 N ow therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

‹وَالآنَ يُراهِنُكَ مَولايَ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ عَلَى هَذا الأمْرِ: إنَّهُ مُسْتَعِدٌّ أنْ يُعطِيَكَ ألفَي حِصانٍ إنِ اسْتَطَعْتَ أنْ تَجِدَ رِجالاً يَرْكَبُونَها.

24 H ow then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

أنتَ لا تَقدِرُ أنْ تَهزِمَ حَتَّى أصْغَرَ قادَةِ مَولايَ، حَتَّى لَوِ اعتَمَدْتَ عَلَى مَرْكِباتِ مِصْرَ وَفُرْسانِها.

25 A m I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

أتَظُنُّ أنِّي جِئْتُ لِمُهاجَمَةِ القُدْسِ وَتَدمِيرِها مِنْ دُونِ يهوه؟ بَلْ هُوَ الَّذِي قالَ لِي: اذْهَبْ إلَى تِلْكَ الأرْضِ وَدَمِّرْها!›»

26 T hen said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rab-shakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews’ language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

فَقالَ ألِياقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيّا، وَشِبْنَةُ، وَيُواخُ لِرَبْشاقَى: «نَرْجُو أن تُكِلِّمنا، نَحنُ خُدّامَكَ، بِاللُّغَةِ الأرامِيَّةِ، فَنَحنُ نَفهَمُها. وَلا تُكَلِّمْنا بِلُغَةِ يَهُوذا لِئَلّا يَفهَمَ الشَّعبُ ما تَقُولُهُ.»

27 B ut Rab-shakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

غَيرَ أنَّ رَبْشاقَى قالَ لَهُمْ: «لَمْ يُرْسِلْنِي سَيِّدِي لِكَي أُكَلِّمَكُمْ أنتُمْ وَحدَكُمْ وَمَلِكَكُمْ، بَلْ أرْسَلَنِي أيضاً لِأُكَلِّمَ الجُنُودَ الواقِفِينَ عَلَى السُّورِ. هُمْ أيضاً سَيَأْكُلُونَ فَضَلاتِهِمْ، وَيَشْرَبُونَ بَولَهُمْ مَعَكُمْ!»

28 T hen Rab-shakeh stood and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spake, saying, Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria:

ثُمَّ نادَى رَبْشاقَى بِصَوْتٍ عالٍ وَقالَ بِالعِبْرِيَّةِ: «اسْمَعُوا رِسالَةَ المَلِكِ العَظِيمِ، مَلِكِ أشُّورَ!

29 T hus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

يَقُولُ المَلِكُ: ‹لا تَدَعُوا حَزَقِيّا يَخْدَعْكُمْ، لِأنَّهُ لا يَسْتَطِيعُ أنْ يُنقِذَكُمْ مِنْ قُوَّتِي.

30 n either let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

لا تَدَعُوا حَزَقِيّا يُقنِعُكُمْ بِالاتِّكالِ عَلَى إلَهِكُمْ بِقَولِهِ: ‹يهوه سَيُخَلِّصُنا، وَلَنْ يَدَعَ مَلِكَ أشُّورَ يَسْتَولِي عَلَى المَدِينَةِ.›

31 H earken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

فَلا تَسْمَعُوا لِحَزَقِيّا. يَقُولُ مَلِكُ أشُّورَ: ‹اعقِدُوا صُلْحاً مَعِي وَاخرُجُوا إلَيَّ. حِينَئِذٍ، سَيَأْكُلُ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنْكُمْ مِنْ عِنَبِهِ وَتِينِهِ وَيَشْرَبُ مِنْ بِئْرِهِ.

32 u ntil I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of oil olive and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, The Lord will deliver us.

يُمْكِنُكُمْ أنْ تَتَمَتَّعُوا بِخَيراتِكُمْ إلَى أنْ آتِيَ وَآخُذَكُمْ إلَى أرْضٍ كَأرْضِكُمْ. هِيَ أرْضُ حِنطَةٍ وَخَمْرٍ، أرْضُ خُبْزٍ وَكُرُومٍ، أرْضُ زَيتُونٍ وَعَسَلٍ. حِينَئِذٍ، سَتَحْيَوْنَ وَلَنْ تَمُوتُوا. فَلا تَسْمَعُوا لِحَزَقِيّا، فَهُوَ يُحاوِلُ أنْ يَخدَعَكُمْ بِقَولِهِ: يهوه سَيُنقِذُنا.

33 H ath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

هَلْ أنقَذَ أيُّ إلَهٍ مِنْ كُلِّ آلِهَةِ الشُّعُوبِ أرْضَهُ مِنْ مَلِكِ أشُّورَ؟

34 W here are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand?

عَجِزَتْ أمامِي آلِهَةُ حَماةَ وَأرفادَ. عَجِزَتْ آلِهَةُ سَفْراوِيمَ وَهَينَعَ وَيَمُّو. لَمْ تَسْتَطِعْ هَذِهِ الآلِهَةُ كُلُّها أنْ تُنقِذَ السّامِرَةَ مِنِّي.

35 W ho are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of mine hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of mine hand?

أيُّ إلَهٍ مِنْ كُلِّ آلِهَةِ الأُمَمِ اسْتَطاعَ أنْ يُنقِذَ أرْضَهُ مِنِّي؟ فَكَيفَ تَتَوَقَّعُونَ بَعدَ ذَلِكَ أنْ يُنقِذَ يهوه القُدْسَ مِنِّي؟›»

36 B ut the people held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

لَكِنَّ الشَّعبَ لَزِمَ الصَّمْتَ. فَلَمْ يَرُدُّوا بِكَلِمَةٍ واحِدَةٍ عَلَى رَبْشاقِي حَسَبَ أمْرِ المَلِكِ حَزَقِيّا. فَقَدْ أمَرَهُمْ: «لا تَرُدُّوا عَلَيهِ.»

37 T hen came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

فَمَزَّقَ ألِياقِيمُ بْنُ حِلْقِيّا الّمَسْؤولُ عَنْ بَيتِ المَلِكِ، وَشِبْنَةُ كاتِبُ المَلِكِ، وَيُواخُ بْنُ آسافَ حافِظُ السِّجِلّاتِ ثِيابَهُمْ حُزْناً عَلَى ما سَمِعُوهُ. وَجاءُوا إلَى حَزَقِيّا، وَأخبَرُوهُ بِما قالَهُ رَبْشاقَى.