1 N ow in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, 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 began to reign, 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 H e did that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes, according to all that David his father had done.

عَمِلَ حَزَقِيّا ما يُرْضِي اللهَ مِثلَ جَدِّهِ داوُدَ.

4 H e removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah. He also broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, because in those days the children of Israel burned 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel; so that after him was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them 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 joined with Yahweh. He didn’t depart from following him, but kept his commandments, which Yahweh commanded Moses.

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

7 Y ahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

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

8 H e struck the Philistines to Gaza and its borders, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city.

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

9 I n the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, 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 t 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.

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 he king of Assyria carried Israel away to Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on 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 didn’t obey Yahweh their God’s voice, but transgressed his covenant, even all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded, and would not hear it or do it.

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, 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 H ezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to 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 H ezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, 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, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, 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 T he king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had 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 W hen they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah 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 R abshakeh 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 say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

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

21 N ow, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who 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 you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to 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, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set 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 can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your 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 H ave I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh 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, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, 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 Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine 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 Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, 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, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

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

30 D on’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and 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 on’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from 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 trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh 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 ever delivered 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, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my 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 my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of 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 stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t 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, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.

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.