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.

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.

²So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

⁶Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

¹⁰All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

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

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.

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

¹²But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

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

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.

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.

¹⁴They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

¹⁸The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

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

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.

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.

²⁰Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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;

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.

²⁸and he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon,

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

²⁹and changed his prison garments. Jehoiachin ate bread before him continually all the days of his life:

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

³⁰and for his allowance, there was a continual allowance given him of the king, every day a portion, 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.