¹A stalo sa deviateho roku jeho kraľovania, desiateho mesiaca, desiateho dňa toho mesiaca, že prišiel Nabuchodonozor, babylonský kráľ, i s celým svojím vojskom proti Jeruzalemu a rozložil sa proti nemu táborom, a vystavil proti nemu hradby dookola.

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.

²A tak bolo mesto obľahnuté až do jedenásteho roku kráľa Cedekiáša.

²And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

³Deviateho dňa toho štvrtého mesiaca zmocnil sa mesta hlad, a nebolo chleba pre ľud zeme.

³On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁴Vtedy bolo prelomené mesto, a všetci bojovní mužovia utiekli tej noci cestou brány medzi dvoma múrami, ktorá bola pri zahrade kráľovej. A Chaldeji ležali proti mestu dookola. A kráľ odišiel cestou roviny Araby.

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.

⁵Ale vojsko Chaldejov prenasledovalo kráľa, a dostihli ho na rovinách Jericha, a všetko jeho vojsko sa rozpŕchlo od neho.

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.

⁶A oni chytiac kráľa odviedli ho k babylonskému kráľovi hore do Ribly a tam ho súdili.

⁶And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,

⁷A synov Cedekiášových pobili pred jeho očima, a oči Cedekiášove oslepil a poviazal ho dvoma medenými reťazami, a doviedli ho do Babylona.

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.

⁸Potom piateho mesiaca, siedmeho dňa toho mesiaca, ktorý to rok bol devätnástym rokom kráľa Nabuchodonozora, babylonského kráľa, prišiel Nebuzaradán, veliteľ kráľovskej stráže, služobník babylonského kráľa, do Jeruzalema.

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;

⁹A spálil dom Hospodinov i dom kráľov i všetky domy Jeruzalema, i všetky veľké domy popálil ohňom.

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.

¹⁰A múry Jeruzalema dookola rozborilo všetko vojsko Chaldejov, ktoré mal so sebou veliteľ kráľovskej stráže.

¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

¹¹A ostatok ľudu, ktorý bol pozostal v meste, a prebehlíkov, ktorí prebehli k babylonskému kráľovi, jako aj ostatok zástupu prestehoval Nebuzaradán, veliteľ kráľovskej stráže.

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.

¹²A niečo z chudobných ľudí zeme zanechal veliteľ kráľovskej stráže za vinárov a oráčov.

¹²But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.

¹³A medené stĺpy, ktoré boly v dome Hospodinovom, a podstavce jako aj medené more, ktoré bolo v dome Hospodinovom, potĺkli Chaldeji a ich meď odviezli do Babylona.

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.

¹⁴I hrnce, lopatky, nože, panvy i všetky medené nádoby, ktorými svätoslúžili, pobrali.

¹⁴The cauldrons also and the shovels and the knives and the cups, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, they took away.

¹⁵I kadidlá i čaše, všetko, už či bolo zo zlata a či zo striebra, pobral veliteľ kráľovskej stráže.

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.

¹⁶Dva stĺpy, jedno more a podstavce, ktorých bol narobil Šalamún pre dom Hospodinov. Nebolo váhy medi všetkých tých nádob.

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.

¹⁷Osemnásť lakťov bola výška jedného stĺpa a makovica na ňom medená, a výška makovice bola tri lakte, a pletivo a zrnaté jablká boly na makovici dookola, všetko bolo z medi. A tak to mal i druhý stĺp i s pletivom.

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.

¹⁸A veliteľ kráľovskej stráže vzal i Seraiáša, predného kňaza, i Sofoniáša, kňaza druhého radu, jako aj troch strážcov prahu.

¹⁸And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

¹⁹A z mesta vzal jedného komorníka, ktorý bol vrchným úradníkom nad bojovnými mužmi, a piatich mužov z tých, ktorí vídavali tvár kráľovu, ktorí boli najdení v meste, i pisára veliteľa vojska, ktorý popisoval ľud zeme a odvádzal do vojska, a šesťdesiat mužov z ľudu zeme, ktorí sa našli v meste.

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.

²⁰A vezmúc ich Nebuzaradán, veliteľ kráľovskej stráže, odviedol ich k babylonskému kráľovi do Ribly.

²⁰And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;

²¹A babylonský kráľ ich pobil a usmrtil ich v Rible, v zemi Chamatu. A tak sa prestehoval Júda zo svojej zeme.

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.

²²A ľud, ktorý ešte zostal v Judskej zemi, ktorý tam ponechal Nabuchodonozor, babylonský kráľ, nad tými ustanovil Gedaliáša, syna Achikáma, syna Šafánovho.

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.

²³A keď počuli všetci velitelia vojsk, oni aj ich mužovia, že babylonský kráľ ustanovil za správcu krajiny Gedaliáša, prišli ku Gedaliášovi do Micpy, totiž Izmael, syn Netaniášov, a Jochanan, syn Kareáchov, a Seraiáš, syn Tanchúmeta Netofatského, a Jazaniáš, syn Machatov, oni aj ich mužovia.

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.

²⁴A Gedaliáš im prisahal aj ich mužom a riekol im: Nebojte sa služobníkov Chaldejov, zostaňte v zemi a slúžte babylonskému kráľovi, a bude vám dobre.

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.

²⁵A stalo sa v siedmom mesiaci, že prišiel Izmael, syn Netaniáša, syna Elišamovho, z kráľovského semena, a desiati mužovia s ním a zabili Gedaliáša, a zomrel, i Židov i Chaldejov, ktorí boli s ním v Micpe, pobili.

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.

²⁶Potom sa sobral všetok ľud, od malého až do veľkého, i velitelia vojsk a utečúc prišli do Egypta, lebo sa báli Chaldejov.

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.

²⁷A stalo sa tridsiateho siedmeho roku zajatia Jehojachina, judského kráľa, dvanásteho mesiaca, dvadsiateho siedmeho dňa toho mesiaca, že Evil-merodach, babylonský kráľ, toho roku, ktorého začal kraľovať, povýšil hlavu Jehojachina, judského kráľa, prepustiac ho zo žalára.

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;

²⁸A hovoril s ním dobrotive a dal jeho stolicu nad stolicu iných kráľov, ktorí boli s ním v Babylone.

²⁸and he spoke kindly to him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

²⁹A premenil rúcho jeho väzby, a jedával chlieb vždycky pred ním, po všetky dni svojho života.

²⁹And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

³⁰A jeho vymeraný diel sa mu dával ako stály diel od kráľa, každý deň to, čo prišlo na ktorý deň, po všetky dni jeho života.

³⁰and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.