1 و َاعتَلَى حَزَقِيّا بْنُ آحازَ عَرْشَ يَهُوذا فِي السَّنَةِ الثّالِثَةِ مِنْ حُكْمِ هُوشَعَ بْنِ أيلَةَ لإسْرائِيلَ.

Now 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.

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

Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

3 ع َمِلَ حَزَقِيّا ما يُرْضِي اللهَ مِثلَ جَدِّهِ داوُدَ.

And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, according to all that David his father had done.

4 ف َهَدَمَ 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.

He removed the high places, and brake the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

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

He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

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

For he clave to Jehovah; he departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which Jehovah commanded Moses.

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

And Jehovah was with him; whithersoever he went forth he prospered: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

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

He smote the Philistines unto Gaza and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

9 و َذَهَبَ 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.

And 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.

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

And at the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

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

And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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

because they obeyed not the voice of Jehovah their God, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

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

Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

14 ف َأرْسَلَ 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.

And 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.

15 ف َأعطاهُ حَزَقِيّا كُلَّ الفِضَّةِ الَّتِي فِي بَيتِ اللهِ وَفِي بَيتِ المَلِكِ.

And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of Jehovah, and in the treasures of the king's house.

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

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

17 أ رْسَلَ 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.

And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto 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.

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

And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

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

And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

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

Thou sayest (but they are but vain words), There is counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou hast rebelled against me?

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

Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt; whereon 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.

22 ‹ 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؟

But if ye say unto me, We trust in Jehovah our God; is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

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

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

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

How then canst 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?

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

Am I now come up without Jehovah against this place to destroy it? Jehovah said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

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

Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebnah, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not with us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

27 غ َيرَ 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!»

But Rabshakeh 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 that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

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

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

29 ي َقُولُ المَلِكُ: ‹لا تَدَعُوا حَزَقِيّا يَخْدَعْكُمْ، لِأنَّهُ لا يَسْتَطِيعُ أنْ يُنقِذَكُمْ مِنْ قُوَّتِي.

Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand:

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

neither let Hezekiah make you trust in Jehovah, saying, Jehovah will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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

Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;

32 ي ُمْكِنُكُمْ 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.

Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.

33 ه َلْ أنقَذَ أيُّ إلَهٍ مِنْ كُلِّ آلِهَةِ الشُّعُوبِ أرْضَهُ مِنْ مَلِكِ أشُّورَ؟

Hath any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

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

Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

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

Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

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

But the people held their peace, and answered him not a word; for the king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

37 ف َمَزَّقَ 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.

Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who 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 Rabshakeh.