1 N ow it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea the 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 H e was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned twenty-nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Abi the daughter of Zechariah.

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 what was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.

عَمِلَ حَزَقِيّا ما يُرْضِي اللهَ مِثلَ جَدِّهِ داوُدَ.

4 H e removed the high places and broke the sacred pillars, cut down the wooden image and broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for until those days the children of Israel burned incense to it, and 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 who were before him.

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

6 F or he held fast to the Lord; he did not depart from following Him, but kept His commandments, which the Lord had commanded Moses.

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

7 T he Lord was with him; he prospered wherever he went. And he rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.

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

8 H e subdued the Philistines, as far as Gaza and its territory, from watchtower to fortified city.

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

9 N ow it came to pass in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea the 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. 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 T hen the king of Assyria carried Israel away captive to Assyria, and put them in Halah and by the Habor, 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 did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded; and they would neither hear 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 A nd in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified 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 T hen Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; turn away from me; whatever you impose on me I will pay.” And the king of Assyria assessed 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 S o Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house.

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

16 A t that time Hezekiah stripped 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. Sennacherib Boasts Against the Lord

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 T hen the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to 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, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.

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

19 T hen the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust?

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

20 Y ou speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

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

21 N ow look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in 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 you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You 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 urge you, give a pledge to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses—if you are able on your part to put riders on 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 will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

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

25 H ave 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 Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people who 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 the Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat and drink their own waste 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 the Rabshakeh stood and called out with a loud voice in Hebrew, and spoke, 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 says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he shall not be able to deliver you from his hand;

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

30 n or let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given 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 D o not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: ‘Make peace with me by a present and come out to me; and every one of you eat from his own vine and every one from his own fig tree, and every one of you drink the waters of his own 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 grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive groves and honey, that you may live and not die. But do not listen to Hezekiah, lest he persuade 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 as any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from 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 Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

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

35 W ho among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my 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, “Do not answer him.”

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

37 T hen Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

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.