1وفي السنة التاسعة لملكه في الشهر العاشر في عاشر الشهر جاء نبوخذناصّر ملك بابل هو وكل جيشه على اورشليم ونزل عليها وبنوا عليها ابراجا حولها.
1And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about.
2ودخلت المدينة تحت الحصار الى السنة الحادية عشرة للملك صدقيا.
2And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3في تاسع الشهر اشتد الجوع في المدينة ولم يكن خبز لشعب الارض.
3On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.
4فثغرت المدينة وهرب جميع رجال القتال ليلا من طريق الباب بين السورين اللذين نحو جنة الملك. وكان الكلدانيون حول المدينة مستديرين. فذهبوا في طريق البرية.
4And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.
5فتبعت جيوش الكلدانيين الملك فادركوه في برية اريحا وتفرقت جميع جيوشه عنه.
5And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
6فأخذوا الملك واصعدوه الى ملك بابل الى ربلة وكلموه بالقضاء عليه.
6And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
7وقتلوا بني صدقيا امام عينيه. وقلعوا عيني صدقيا وقيدوه بسلسلتين من نحاس وجاءوا به الى بابل
7and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.
8وفي الشهر الخامس في سابع الشهر وهي السنة التاسعة عشرة للملك نبوخذناصّر ملك بابل جاء نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط عبد ملك بابل الى اورشليم.
8And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, servant of the king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;
9واحرق بيت الرب وبيت الملك وكل بيوت اورشليم وكل بيوت العظماء احرقها بالنار.
9and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [man's] house he burned with fire.
10وجميع اسوار اورشليم مستديرا هدمها كل جيوش الكلدانيين الذين مع رئيس الشرط.
10And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
11وبقية الشعب الذين بقوا في المدينة والهاربون الذين هربوا الى ملك بابل وبقية الجمهور سباهم نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط.
11And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
12ولكن رئيس الشرط ابقى من مساكين الارض كرامين وفلاحين.
12But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.
13واعمدة النحاس التي في بيت الرب والقواعد وبحر النحاس الذي في بيت الرب كسّرها الكلدانيون وحملوا نحاسها الى بابل.
13And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried the brass thereof to Babylon.
14والقدور والرفوش والمقاص والصحون وجميع آنية النحاس التي كانوا يخدمون بها اخذوها
14The cauldrons also and the shovels and the knives and the cups, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, they took away.
15والمجامر والمناضح. ما كان من ذهب فالذهب وما كان من فضة فالفضة اخذها رئيس الشرط.
15And the censers and the bowls, that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, the captain of the body-guard took away.
16والعمودان والبحر الواحد والقواعد التي عملها سليمان لبيت الرب لم يكن وزن لنحاس كل هذه الادوات.
16The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah: for the brass of all these vessels there was no weight.
17ثماني عشرة ذراعا ارتفاع العمود الواحد وعليه تاج من نحاس وارتفاع التاج ثلاث اذرع والشبكة والرمانات التي على التاج مستديرة جميعها من نحاس. وكان للعمود الثاني مثل هذه على الشبكة
17The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital upon it was brass, and the height of the capital three cubits; and the network and the pomegranates, upon the capital round about, all of brass: and similarly for the second pillar with the network.
18واخذ رئيس الشرط سرايا الكاهن الرئيس وصفنيا الكاهن الثاني وحارسي الباب الثلاثة.
18And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
19ومن المدينة اخذ خصيا واحدا كان وكيلا على رجال الحرب وخمسة رجال من الذين ينظرون وجه الملك الذين وجدوا في المدينة وكاتب رئيس الجند الذي كان يجمع شعب الارض وستين رجلا من شعب الارض الموجودين في المدينة
19And out of the city he took a chamberlain that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.
20واخذهم نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط وسار بهم الى ملك بابل الى ربلة.
20And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;
21فضربهم ملك بابل وقتلهم في ربلة في ارض حماة. فسبي يهوذا من ارضه
21and the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
22واما الشعب الذي بقي في ارض يهوذا الذين ابقاهم نبوخذناصّر ملك بابل فوكّل عليهم جدليا بن اخيقام بن شافان.
22And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left behind, over them he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.
23ولما سمع جميع رؤساء الجيوش هم ورجالهم ان ملك بابل قد وكّل جدليا أتوا الى جدليا الى المصفاة وهم اسماعيل بن نثنيا ويوحنان بن قاريح وسرايا بن تنحومث النطوفاتي ويازنيا ابن المعكي هم ورجالهم.
23And all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
24وحلف جدليا لهم ولرجالهم وقال لهم لا تخافوا من عبيد الكلدانيين. اسكنوا الارض وتعبّدوا لملك بابل فيكون لكم خير.
24And Gedaliah swore unto them and to their men, and said to them, Fear not to be servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
25وفي الشهر السابع جاء اسماعيل بن نثنيا بن اليشمع من النسل الملكي وعشرة رجال معه وضربوا جدليا فمات وايضا اليهود والكلدانيين الذين معه في المصفاة.
25And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.
26فقام جميع الشعب من الصغير الى الكبير ورؤساء الجيوش وجاءوا الى مصر لانهم خافوا من الكلدانيين
26And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
27وفي السنة السابعة والثلاثين لسبي يهوياكين ملك يهوذا في الشهر الثاني عشر في السابع والعشرين من الشهر رفع اويل مرودخ ملك بابل في سنة تملكه راس يهوياكين ملك يهوذا من السجن
27And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;
28وكلمه بخير وجعل كرسيه فوق كراسي الملوك الذين معه في بابل.
28and he spoke kindly to him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.
29وغيّر ثياب سجنه وكان ياكل دائما الخبز امامه كل ايام حياته.
29And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;
30ووظيفته وظيفة دائمة تعطى له من عند الملك امر كل يوم بيومه كل ايام حياته
30and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.