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.
1It happened in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.
2ودخلت المدينة تحت الحصار الى السنة الحادية عشرة للملك صدقيا.
2So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.
3في تاسع الشهر اشتد الجوع في المدينة ولم يكن خبز لشعب الارض.
3On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was severe in the city, so that 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.
4Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.
5فتبعت جيوش الكلدانيين الملك فادركوه في برية اريحا وتفرقت جميع جيوشه عنه.
5But 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.
6Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
7وقتلوا بني صدقيا امام عينيه. وقلعوا عيني صدقيا وقيدوه بسلسلتين من نحاس وجاءوا به الى بابل
7They killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, 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.
8Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
9واحرق بيت الرب وبيت الملك وكل بيوت اورشليم وكل بيوت العظماء احرقها بالنار.
9He burnt the house of Yahweh, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
10وجميع اسوار اورشليم مستديرا هدمها كل جيوش الكلدانيين الذين مع رئيس الشرط.
10All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
11وبقية الشعب الذين بقوا في المدينة والهاربون الذين هربوا الى ملك بابل وبقية الجمهور سباهم نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط.
11Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
12ولكن رئيس الشرط ابقى من مساكين الارض كرامين وفلاحين.
12But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.
13واعمدة النحاس التي في بيت الرب والقواعد وبحر النحاس الذي في بيت الرب كسّرها الكلدانيون وحملوا نحاسها الى بابل.
13The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon.
14والقدور والرفوش والمقاص والصحون وجميع آنية النحاس التي كانوا يخدمون بها اخذوها
14They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
15والمجامر والمناضح. ما كان من ذهب فالذهب وما كان من فضة فالفضة اخذها رئيس الشرط.
15The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.
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 Yahweh, the brass of all these vessels was without 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 the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with network.
18واخذ رئيس الشرط سرايا الكاهن الرئيس وصفنيا الكاهن الثاني وحارسي الباب الثلاثة.
18The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:
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 an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
20واخذهم نبوزرادان رئيس الشرط وسار بهم الى ملك بابل الى ربلة.
20Nebuzaradan the captain of the 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
21The king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So 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.
22As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, governor.
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.
23Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
24وحلف جدليا لهم ولرجالهم وقال لهم لا تخافوا من عبيد الكلدانيين. اسكنوا الارض وتعبّدوا لملك بابل فيكون لكم خير.
24Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, “Don’t be afraid because of the 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.
25But it happened 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 struck Gedaliah, so 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
26All 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
27It happened in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach 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 throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,
29وغيّر ثياب سجنه وكان ياكل دائما الخبز امامه كل ايام حياته.
29and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin 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 for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.